Forum Discussion
Hide Attendees List in Teams Webinar
Hello community,
We are having a webinar this week and realize that within the webinar screen, everyone is able to see the list of people who are attending the event.
Is this a feature available at this time?
- It's not currently possible, but the feature is on the Roadmap and should be coming in the next few months.
I’m still waiting for this feature. Showing other participants to each other in a webinar is simply not an acceptable. What is the timeline to roll it out. I am paying for an additional Zoom Webinar license just because this feature is not available in Teams yet.
- I completely agree - this is such a small change in the grand scheme of things yet we're still waiting. There shouldn't be something so basic that is missing or has us using different products because our base product isn't capable of doing it. That's crazy.
If I have a webinar, where I want audio or video, I should be albe to control if other recipients are shown or not. Even the chat, doesn't cover simple features that WebEx has had for two decades. I should be able to offer chat to only presenters\hosts but not to each other. The foundation items should not take months and months to get to Teams. Meanwhile, you're adding and consuming development time on useless features or rarely used features. VasilMichev Hi, it's been a while. Is this feature available now? My organization is a Microsoft Partner, and we'd like to use Microsoft products for everything, including webinars. We're still struggling whether or not to use Webinars or Live Event, because both have features that we need but that the other doesn't.
For some context:
Live Event - hides participants and allows public events but does not have the option for people without Microsoft accounts to add their names to the meeting. Therefore, we cannot track actual attendees. This would be solved by asking anonymous guest attendees to fill out a name and email address upon admission.
Webinar - solves the issue of no anonymous attendees within the meeting. However, even with the chat disabled, participants cannot be hidden. THIS IS SUCH A SIMPLE FEATURE! Everything else would be perfect with the Webinar option if we could hide participant names. You said this would be coming soon - WHERE IS IT????
No wonder why people prefer Apple.
- It's incredible that as a MS Partner i need to use other webinar platforms. I have no words...
aldoiscgroup You should create the meeting as a Live Event versus a Teams Meeting. Then yes, presenters and producers are shown. It becomes more a webinar that way, but then audio and video of attendees is not an option as well.
- You can use power automate - as someone registers for the live event via MS Form, you can have an email sent to them with an .ics file with the meeting invite attached. This is what I have to do until webinars hides attendees.
The real downside to live event is a lot of my webinars are discussions but LE only allows 1 person on camera at a time so switching between people speaking during the conversation is clunky.
Webinar would be perfect if attendees can be hidden. This has been an ongoing ask for some time now.
- It's awful that Microsoft didn't think about it. How is it possible?
- So, is there any update on this feature? It's still not available in Teams to this day. When exactly can we expect this feature? I am sure no company will use the webinar feature with any potential clients while it is not able to hide attendees.
UPDATE!! IUH3rdeyes We found out that purchasing a Teams premium membership remedies this issue. However, you need to qualify for this license. So, it's not inclusive to smaller businesses. The creative remedy is using Teams Live Events and MS Forms for registration and attendance.
saracourte How were you able to hide webinar participants from each other with Teams Premium? I was just given access to it this morning and have not been able to find that ability. Thanks.
aldoiscgroup I'm adding my support to this feature request. We have to use a 3rd party webinar software as its imperative we do not expose those members who are on our webinars. The Product Owners on this team have got their focus seriously wrong.
Sharing this for visibility - looks like this will be coming as a Premium feature later in the year
- Seriously - a PREMIUM feature? This is a basic option for every other product out there since the days of early WebEx. The reason we continue to use Zoom and other products is because Teams alone doesn't have basic features like this, that every other product out there does have. Why in the hell would this be a Premium feature. We are a Microsoft partner as well, and even we don't get Premium as part of our partnership - so that makes it even worse.
How can this honestly not be a standard feature of a webinar... I've done 4hrs+ of research to get to the point where almost everything is covered in Teams Webinar, but this one thing has caused me to look elsewhere.
- Pushed back again to November 2023....frustrating. This really needs nailing as it's a showstopper for us when it comes to external Webinars
Albie Mills looks like the new Town Hall may have this capability. But I’m trying to find out additional info on it. It seems to be more geared towards Internal Meetings. It’s replacing Live Event. I don’t think it has the invite capabilities tho. I need to dive deeper
- I am really shocked* that the option to hide attendees is not available in Teams Premium (webinar) - shocking ! what's the point from the webinar ?
