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New MS Teams Webinar feature

When will the new MS Teams Webinar feature be available? does anyone know ?
As I understand it there will be three options - meetngs, webinar, live Event

Any guidance is greatly received

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PedroPetersen answered

Hello @BenMollo-6150

According to Microsoft, it's scheduled to start being delivered at the end of this month (April 2021).

This is the latest message shared by them:

We are excited to announce the forthcoming availability of Teams webinar capabilities, beginning rollout at the end of April 2021, completing in May 2021.

Associated features that apply to webinars and meetings, include:

Registration page creation with email confirmation for registrants.
Reporting for registration and attendance.
These capabilities will be available to users with the following licenses: Office 365 or Microsoft 365 E3/E5/A3/A5/Business Standard/Business Premium. For the rest of 2021, we are offering temporary availability to Teams users to try the features with their existing commercial subscription.

You can also follow up on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap:
https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1%26filters=&searchterms=80099

Hope this helps.

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JimmyYang-MSFT answered BenMollo-6150 commented

@BenMollo-6150

As PedroPetersen said above, you can follow up the progress of Webinar from the M365 Roadmap.



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this was useful but I still don't know when it will be released

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It says that the roll-out was expected to be terminated by the end of May. Is that the case? We still don't see it.

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To have the Webinar Feature available you need to run a few PS commands:


 Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -AllowMeetingRegistration $True  
 Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowPrivateMeetingScheduling $True  
 Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -WhoCanRegister "Everyone"  
 Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowEngagementReport Enabled  

see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/set-up-webinars and
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-powershell-install (to enable the PS to connect)

However, at my tenant (region of my tenant Germany), I have different licenses assigned to users.

At the E3 plan, there is a drop-down that clearly shows "Webinar" to start the settings for an MS Teams Webinar.
But users with a Business Standard or Premium plan do not have a drop-down next to schedule a new meeting.

So I wonder if the way to set up an MS Teams Webinar is simply different with a Business plan vs. E3.
My assumption is, you can turn a "regular" meeting by enabling a registration page into a Webinar. At least it looks like this because while I was testing with the Business plan user that worked and I was able to set up a webinar. This is unconfirmed by Microsoft so far and there is no documentation. All documentation that I found show that next to scheduling a Webinar there is always a Live Event feature option, this however, is only available in enterprise licenses as the E3 plan.

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Thank you, I tried that with no luck.

By the way, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/05/11/introducing-webinars-in-microsoft-teams-easy-professional-webinars-to-engage-customers/ still says the following:

These new capabilities will be available in Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Microsoft 365 A3/A5, and Microsoft 365 Government G3/G5 plans. Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans will include all the features above for up to 300 attendees. And for the rest of 2021, we are offering a promotional period where all Teams users can try the features with their existing subscription. Please visit the Microsoft 365 roadmap and Microsoft Docs for additional feature details and availability.

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It may take up to 24 hours until this does take effect.
However, you will not have any button that says "Webinar" instead please try this:
You have to go to the calendar then click new meeting.
Open the drop-down where it says require registration and chose everyone (for a public webinar).

After that, you should see a text link to view registration form you need to schedule a date and time again. (The reason for that is, that you actually can start the meeting before the webinar (itself and you let guests in, for example, to test anything, make last preparations or discuss anything with your speakers).

You have to hit save the registration form once before the link to the registration page itself will work. And you have to save the actual meeting too before the webinar is set up and the registration page becomes available. If you do not see the require registration at the top your tenant might not have received the webinar feature yet.

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