Users appearing as Anonymous User (Guest) in Town Hall Q&A
I am not sure if this is expected behavior or not as I cannot find any documentation related to this. When we host a town hall meeting, we are encountering an issue regarding the Q&A feature. When an external participant joins the meeting without signing in, and for example enters "John Doe" for the users name, when submitting a question in the Q&A section, the submission is displayed as from the user "Anonymous User (Guest)" and associated with the email "email address removed for privacy reasons" instead of the name I entered or my actual email address. This behavior is different from when I invite the same external user to a regular teams meeting in which they appear as "John Doe" in the participant list and in chat. I am seeking clarity on why the name and email address were not displayed as entered, and why they defaulted to anonymous settings despite providing identifiable information upon joining. Additionally, I would like to understand how to configure the settings to ensure that external participants' names and provided emails are correctly displayed when they participate in the Q&A. Any guidance or insights on how to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!Editing a Teams Town Hall Invite
When you send a Teams Town Hall invite you can customize the email to edit everything except that it leaves the domain name of your tenant at the bottom of the invite for example: A*****.com This event is powered by Microsoft Teams, under the direction of the meeting organizer. The data processing that occurs for purposes of this event is subject to the terms of the meeting organizer.Microsoft Privacy Policy There does not seem to be any options in Teams Admin to change this. We have multiple companies using a single tenant and it's displaying a message that includes the tenant domain which we don't want. Any ideas?Co-Organizer cannot edit Town Hall Attendees or Presenters
Team, I was added as a co-organizer for a Teams Town Hall. The organizer will be on vacation the day of the TH, so I was added to be able to add presenters if needed. When I open the meeting from my Teams calendar and attempt to Manage Event, it tells me that as a co-organizer I cannot edit anything on the Details page. According toMC688109, this ability was supposed to be added recently. Has this been delayed? How can I get the ability to edit attendees/presenters without cancelling the existing meeting and creating a new one?
How to embed Town Hall meetings into SharePoint?
Using the approach documented here, I was able to embed and view a Teams Live Event within SharePoint, but I know Live Events are being deprecated and I should move towards Town Hall meetings. When I attempt an embed using a Town Hall meeting, the embed will pickup the meeting name and display it, and it will also display a status(either "Meeting's not started yet", or "Connecting you to the live event"), but never connects or displays the live stream. The fact that it pulls back the meeting name, and can determine if the meeting's started tells me that it understands the Town Hall, but again, no live stream. Is this doable with Town Hall's at this time?Teams Town Hall Replaces Live Events
Teams town halls are a new event type designed to host large audiences. Town halls will replace Live Events, which Microsoft will remove on September 30, 2024. If you’ve ever created a Teams webinar event, running a town hall will seem very similar. That’s because the two event types follow similar methods to set up and manage events. Microsoft still has some features to build into Town Hall to make it functionally equivalent to Live Events. These will come in time. https://office365itpros.com/2023/10/06/teams-town-hall-live-events/
