Town halls in Microsoft Teams

Build meaningful connections inside and outside your organization with large-scale events on Teams. Teams Town halls offer a one-to-many format with advanced production capabilities and a structured approach for engaging attendees. Customers can host internal and external events, such as company-wide meetings, all-hands sessions, and fireside chats. Teams Town halls help extend reach to scale your message. Create professionally produced, studio-quality events that deliver a more dynamic experience and maximize participation and maintain focus with a structured approach to managing audience engagement.

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Explore what's new

Check out the new town hall experience ahead of the retirement of Teams Live Events.

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Make the move

Find out how to host town halls for your organization.

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Jumpstart your events

Leverage the user guide to get started hosting town halls today.

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Teams Live Events and upgrading to Teams town halls​

Since the general availability of Teams town hall in October 2023, we continue to bring more features from Teams Live Events along with new functionality into the new town hall experience. Town hall will continue to be the platform where our new features and value land, and we encourage Teams Live Events users to take advantage of these new innovations by upgrading to town hall when ready. Below is what is already available and what is still coming, and we will update this list as more features become available. For additional details on specific features and timing, please refer to the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap.

Features generally available:

  • 20k attendees with Q&A
  • Host up to 50 concurrent events in Teams Premium
  • Live translated captions
  • Green room
  • RTMP-in
  • Microsoft eCDN and third-party eCDN support
  • Attendee reporting
  • On-demand recording
  • Manage what attendees see
  • Join link for external presenter
  • Q&A: Red dot indicator for new questions and replies
  • GCC, GCC-High
  • Enable event naming on reporting with 3P eCDN providers​
  • Back-stage private chat for presenters and organizers
  • Simplified event creation by duplicating town hall events
  • Ability to select languages for translation in Town hall
  • Event chat
  • Sharepoint embedMicrosoft Purview support
  • Support for external email automation software
  • Reactions (Premium)
  • Graph APIs

What’s coming in Q1

  • Microsoft Teams Rooms capabilities
  • Digital Video Recording (DVR)
  • Increased policy controls
  • Cloud Video Interop (CVI) support

Teams Premium is an add-on license that makes Teams meetings and other scenarios more intelligent, secure, and engaging. Customers can unlock additional advanced capabilities for town hall with Teams Premium to further enhance their events. This includes increased capacity for up to 20,000 attendees with moderated Q&A supported, up to 50 concurrent events hosted across a tenant, Microsoft eCDN included, real-time event analytics, and more.

Explore our Teams Premium adoption page to see how it can elevate your next event.

Teams Premium adoption resources

Support for Business Users

Check out the resources below to find out how to get started on setting up and delivering your organization’s town hall, all hands, global team event, and more!

Need additional support? The Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) can help provide guidance and best practices for delivering a successful event.

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Read through our resources below to ensure your organization is ready to begin using town halls, including verifying your event policies and managing who is able to schedule and set up town halls within your organization.

Plan for Teams town hallsManage meeting and event policies in Microsoft TeamsManage who can schedule town halls in Microsoft Teams

Get guidance for delivering virtual events

Explore the playbooks for best practices and resources on producing virtual events in Teams.

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