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
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.
Support for IT Pros
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.