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juzzle5
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Apr 30, 2021

MS 365 Business licences can't join Teams Live Event as Presenter/Producer, but Free licences can

Ever since late 2020, I've been unable to successfully have MS 365 Business licence users participate as Presenters or Producers in Teams Live Events. Here are the steps I've gone through (which worked fine for most of 2020, but not now):

 

Set-up Steps

  1. Set-up Teams Live Event on Acme.com Enterprise licence tentant (set event to public)

  2. Added all Presenters/Producers (some internal Teams E1/E3/E5 licencees on Acme.com, some external Teams E1/E3/E5 licencees, some Teams Free licencees) to a Team

  3. Invited all the above as Presenters/Producers to the Live Event

  4. Verified that all invitees Accepted the invitation to the Team and the Event

  5. Verified that all invitees can see the "Acme.com" organisation (& team) in their Teams app

Results

 
Organisation MS Licence TypeCan join as Producer/PresenterNotes
Acme.com365 E1/E3/E5Yes 
External365 E1/E3/E5Yes 
External365 BusinessNojoins as Attendee only
ExternalOutlook.com / Teams FreeYes 


Notes

Why aren't Teams Live Events allowing MS 365 Business Licences to participate as Producers/Presenters?

Live Event
Presenters
Producers

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    • juzzle5's avatar
      juzzle5
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 30, 2021

      Thank youThereseSolimeno - I did consider posting in "Virtual Events" but I wasn't clear that it was about Teams "Live Events". I do wish Microsoft could standarise it's terminology - consistent words matter. I suggest "Virtual Events" be relabelled "Live Events" (I mean, what other type of Teams "Virtual Events" are there?)

      • ThereseSolimeno's avatar
        ThereseSolimeno
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        May 03, 2021

        juzzle5  In the Microsoft world, Teams "Live Events" is actually a version of Teams that one would use to do a one-way virtual presentation (vs a regular Teams meeting where attendees can share video and audio with each other).  The Virtual Events and Webinars discussion covers the use of both of those versions of the product.

         

        BTW, there is a live "Ask Microsoft Anything" session regarding Virtual Events and Webinars planned for this Wednesday, May 5 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am Pacific Time in the AMA discussion forum: Microsoft Teams AMA - Microsoft Tech Community. Please join us with your questions.

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