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rickeylohia
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May 26, 2020

Microsoft Teams API for live events

Are there APIs related to Teams live event - Create a live event - Get the attendees list of the live event etc
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Jonas2240
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Sep 17, 2020

rickeylohia you can create Live Events via the /v1.0/me/onlineMeetings, simply add 

"isBroadcast": true

 to the body. 

 

You can add producers for the event:

"participants": {
        "producers": [
            {
                "upn": "someuser@somedomain.com"
            }
        ]
    }

 

Note: this is available in v1.0 (so GA) but it is not in the documentation. It used to be in the beta documentation but I can't find it there anymore either. So I'm not sure just how unsafe it is to use this in a production environment.

 

Trinetra-MSFT , would you care to comment on this? Also, you were referring to a solution for creating online meetings (MeetNow) with application permissions. However, I can't find that in the documentation either. Could you give more information?

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AngelesESP
Copper Contributor
Nov 03, 2020

Jonas2240 We are trying to create Live Events from Graph API and even when we create the live event it does not appear in the calendar. Did you face this same problem? If so, how did you solve it? Thanks so much!

  • Jonas2240's avatar
    Jonas2240
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 03, 2020

    Hi AngelesESP,

     

    currently you can only create these Live Events via the Online Meeting API afaik. As per the documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-post-onlinemeetings?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http), online meetings created via this API don't show in any calendar.

     

    A workaround would be to create the Live Event via the Online Meeting API, then use the details obtained via the response in a new call to the Calendar API to create an event in the user's calendar (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-events?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http).

     

    I hope this helps.

     

    Kind regards,

    Jonas

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      jmorihs
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 09, 2022

      Hi Jonas2240 ,

       

      Following up on your comment, how would I use the details obtained via the response in a new call to the Calendar API to create an event in the user's calendar? I retrieved the online Meeting information but am not sure how to use that information in creating the calendar event call. Would this calendar event show the Live Event Meeting on the calendar and can participants join straight from the calendar event?

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