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Allow broadcast production in Teams meetings with NDI and SDI hardware

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    Microsoft Teams

Teams offers two options for broadcasting Teams meeting content: Network Device Interface(NewTek NDI®) and Serial Digital Interface (SDI):

  • NewTek NDI® is a modern solution for connecting multiple media devices, such as studio cameras and mixers, without physical connections. Instead, NDI® technology enables connectivity over a local intranet, including on a local machine. This technology is a widely adopted industry standard for producing live content for streams, with significant awareness and adoption in the professional broadcast world.

  • SDI, known for its reliable long-distance transmission, is a widely used technology for sending video through cables. It's a goto choice in professional broadcasting because it carries uncompressed, high-quality video along with audio and other data. Hardware devices from AJA Video Systems and Blackmagic Design provide connectivity to legacy broadcast devices that use SDI.

NDI® and SDI technology is supported in all locales.

As an admin, you can allow your users to use NDI® and SDI for broadcast production in their meetings. For the most secure solution, don't enable this policy as a global setting.

1. Enable the broadcast production policy

To enable NDI® and SDI broadcast features for a user, you can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell.

Enable broadcast production in the Teams admin center

  1. Open the Teams admin center.
  2. Expand Meetings from the navigation pane.
  3. Under Meetings, select Meeting Policies.
  4. Either select an existing policy or create a new one.
  5. Navigate to the Audio & video section.
  6. Toggle Broadcast production with NDI and SDI hardware to On.
  7. Select Save

Enable broadcast production in PowerShell

You can use the -ContentSharingInExternalMeetings parameter in the CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet to enable broadcast production for your users.

To allow users with this policy to use broadcast production, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowNDIStreaming $true

2. Instruct your users to turn on production capabilities

Users with an enabled Broadcast production with NDI and SDI hardware policy must turn on Production capabilities from Settings > App Permissions in their specific client. For details on how your user can turn on production capabilities, see Broadcasting audio and video from Teams.