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FIX: Microsoft Teams Live Events not available
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Microsoft Teamsis one of the most popular and well-recognizedcollaborative toolsused today. It encompasses everything you would expect from such a service, ranging from instant chat, file transfer, video conferences, and more.
One other neatfeaturethat has arrived for some time now is something calledLive Events.
With Teams live events, users in yourorganizationcanbroadcast videoand meeting content to large online audiences. So basically they, are video conferences with a much larger audience.
Unfortunately, plenty of users havereportedthat thisfeatureisn’t available to them yet. More precisely, they cannot broadcast Live Events to public audiences. Either it doesn’t appear at all where it should be, or the interface menu is greyed out, and therefore unselectable.
I just saw that onefeatureI’ve been really anticipating the arrival of, Live Events, is now available in Teams as a ‘preview’, however the option for a “Public” event is grayed out with the disclaimer that some settings are disabled by the IT administrator. I am the IT administrator, but I can’t find how to change the setting, if I can at all during preview.
Apparently, the problem stems from permission that needs to be given by the company’s IT administrator.
How can I enable Live Events in Microsoft Teams?
Set up the Live Events Policy
The audience for your Live Events needs to be set from the Admin Center, otherwise, common users will only be able to choose from a restricted pool of options.
Thus, follows these steps to enable the public viewing of Live Events:
By enabling thisfeature, your Live Events will be available to the general public, meaning even users that aren’t part of your network.
All they need to do is join the live event, and then the program will try launching Teams first if they already have it installed. If they don’t, they’ll have the option to join online and then either to sign in or join anonymously.
One thing you need to remember is that, for those that join anonymously, their video feed fills the entire screen, and they won’t see the Teams navigation bar on the left.
Once these steps have been followed, any user that is part of your network and has all theappropriate rightswill be able tobroadcastLive Events to the general public.
Do you think Live Events is useful inMicrosoft Teams? Let us know in the comment section below.
Thanks to the Live Events feature, Microsoft Teams is now a reliable webinar solution. All you need to do is schedule a live event and you’ll then be able to connect to as many people as possible.
Once the broadcast is over, Microsoft Teams live events recordings are available in the meeting details. Event owners can then download the recordings and upload them to Microsoft Stream to share them with an ever greater number of persons.
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