Webinar features are coming to Microsoft Teams. No separate subscription, E3 or Business premium or higher. Setting up a webinar is just like scheduling a meeting. The feature should start rolling out to tenants this month.
Webinars will support up to 1,000 interactive attendees, with an “overflow” experience to a 10,000-person view-only broadcast experience.
Microsoft talks about “meetings”, “virtual events” and “webinars”. The distinction here is virtual events are using tech like NDI and mixing in complex AV.
Organiser Experience
Webinars can be organised just like scheduling a meeting
Set up your event
Options for no registration, for org and guest or everyone
Setup Registration Page
Attendee Experience
After attendees register, they get an email to join.
Presenters can use the person over content mode
Attendees can send live reactions
Real-time polls
Chat and/or moderated Q&A
Attendee controls are available to presenters
Post Event Reporting for the organiser
Who joined, who didn’t
Option to export data from Webinar for Teams to Dynamics 365. This will come later in the year.
From Dynamics 365 (additional product/licence) you can do email campaigns and other CRM activities.
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when will this be available in our tenant?
Should be rolling out this month, so within the next month or two I expect.
Has this been launched yet?
I heard that webinars will not come to Germany with the first wave do you know about any timelines here?
I haven’t heard that Germany is excluded from the initial rollout.
I heard teams webinar is not coming to Germany with the first wave. Do you know when it will be rolled out to Germany?
I haven’t heard that it will be specifically different for Germany tenants.
Do you mean Germany go-local specifically?
Do you know if there are controls around who can set up the Webinar? Is it limited with the LiveEvent policy?
Hi, will webinars only be available live or will we be able to watch it afterwards?
Is there anything we need to toggle in Teams Admin center or is it supposed to ‘show up’?
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