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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?
Hi,
Does anybody know if this feature is already available? I still can't hide the attendees list on Teams Webinar.
Thank you!
Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365 - it seems it is not available yet, still rolling out.
It's in the meeting options for Webinar Teams Premium - Notice Hide attendee Name is defaulting to Yes and is locked.
- 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 ?
- 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
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.
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
HelloBenTeoh this has been pushed back again, I rushed to purchase a few licences in anticipation of the July rollout to test and they moved it.
- It's incredible that as a MS Partner i need to use other webinar platforms. I have no words...
- 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.
- It's awful that Microsoft didn't think about it. How is it possible?
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.
