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MS Teams Webinar
We shall be using a MS Teams webinar for approximately 2000 people internal to our organization. And would like confirmation about the following, 1. Will it allow people to join in without any regi...
We tried the webinar. It did not allow anyone from the lobby to enter the webinar after the attendee count touched 1000. We had to then stop the webinar and quickly setup a Teams Live event which worked for more than 1000 people. We are checking with our IT team and Microsoft why the webinar did not work for >1000 people.
Tom_Piers - the benefit of the webinar is having a registration page, metrics for attendance and the ability to post that on social which is advantageous on having to add these aspects with third party apps. I guess my point was that the experience of a webinar is the same as a standard teams meeting, the webinar just has these extra features
dshenoy2021 - I'd be interested to know. This is marked as launched on the Microsoft 365 roadmap
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=65952
Best, Chris
dshenoy2021 - I'd be interested to know. This is marked as launched on the Microsoft 365 roadmap
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=65952
Best, Chris
- @deshnoy's first question was not answered. How do you allow attendees to bypass the lobby?
- Karuana_Gatimu_MSFT
Community Manager
h-i-k You would configure the meeting options to allow lobby bypass. This article walks you through it step by step.
