Worktank has been a power-user of Microsoft Teams meeting tools from the first beta release, helping many of our clients move their All-Hands, Town Halls, and Senior Leadership meetings to the platform. Teams enables both low-friction virtual events, and high production-value workflows, and Worktank is all-in on the platform for connecting internal, distributed teams.
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In our work, we are often asked questions about the different meeting types within Microsoft Teams: Meetings and Live Events. Ssl_library_init multi threaded. This post hopes to give a high-level overview of Microsoft Teams and highlight the capabilities and limitations of both meeting types.
Microsoft Teams Overview
Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool for connecting and engaging with your team. Along with providing conversation threads, chat features and collaborative file sharing, Teams provides a platform for large group meetings, such as All-Hands or Town Halls.
When creating new meetings, two choices are available: Teams Meetings or Teams Live Events.
Teams Meetings
Teams Meetings are designed for real-time collaboration and conversation between a group of peers. Currently, a Teams Meeting is limited to a total of 250 people on the call. Attendees can share webcam video, create a whiteboard, or share out their desktop. Invitations can be sent to individuals or teams of people.
With so many attendee participation tools available, Teams Meetings are best used for smaller, collaborative efforts, rather than a structured one-to-many presentation.
Teams Live Events
Teams Live Events are designed for presentation style meetings, where most attendees are 'view only'. With this version of Teams, up to 10,000 attendees can join the event, but can only participate via text-based Q&A.
The standard Live Event mode allows multiple, virtual presenters who can share audio, webcams and their screens to present content. There are some limitations to presenter controls, and all initiations must be sent prior to the meeting start time (no adding attendees during the meeting … yet).
For meetings that are taking place in a larger room and are being captured using a professional video production crew, there is an 'external' mode that can be enabled. This mode allows the transmission of high-quality video using professional broadcast-level tools. While this mode allows for high-quality video, it brings limitations. All presenters must be in the same location as the video crew.
Yammer Integration
If your organization uses Yammer, Teams Live Events also can be embedded into a Yammer page. This allows for great discoverability, as well as the ability to have a running Yammer thread accessible by all viewers.
Microsoft Teams Assistance
Microsoft Teams is a powerful platform, and Worktank is excited about the experiences it can empower. We stand ready to help your organization take advantage of the full value of the platform.
To learn more about making the move to Microsoft Teams to engage with your clients and colleagues, contact us or call 1-877-WRKTANK.
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Microsoft 365 live event limit increases
Discord search. To continue supporting our customers' needs, through June 30, 2021, we will extend temporary limit increases for live events, including:
- Event support for up to 20,000 attendees
- 50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant
- Event duration of 16 hours per broadcast
Additionally, live events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft 365 live events assistance program. The team will assess each request and work with you to determine options that may be available. Learn more.
Overview of live events
You can create live events using Microsoft Stream across the organization. You can schedule, produce, and deliver live events for a variety of scenarios such as companywide events, leadership updates and more. Live events enable producers to curate and control the content that is broadcast to an audience.
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Do you have a question about or need help with live events? Contact our Live Events Assistance team to get started!
You can create, schedule and run live events using a single bitrate RTMP or RTMPS stream from an encoder – we'll take care of all the transcoding for adaptive bitrate delivery to your viewers.
Just like any other video in Stream, you can make the live event open to your entire company or limit the access to specific groups. This provides an end-to-end creation and viewing experience inside of Stream.
After the event, the video will be available on demand with intelligent features including:
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Speech-to-text and closed captions
Transcript search and timecodes let you quickly find moments that matter in a video.
Live events in Microsoft 365
You can create a live event in Stream, Microsoft Teams or Yammer — wherever your audience, team, or community resides. Attendees can participate in real time, with high-definition (HD) video and interactive discussion, or catch up later with powerful AI features that unlock the content of the event recording. Seamless integration across Microsoft 365 means that you can use Stream to deliver highly produced, studio-quality events. Learn more about live events in Microsoft 365.
Ignite 2019 session: M365 live events - How to produce an event, architecture, admin, which tool when
If you missed our 'M365 live events across Teams, Yammer, & Stream' session at Ignite in November 2019, you can watch the recording of the session below or go to the Microsoft Tech Community to download resources for the session.
Get started
Ensure that users you want to be able to create live events have the granted permissions required to create a live event.
Microsoft Live Meeting Limits
By default, everyone in your organization can create a live event, however a Stream admin can restrict access. Learn more about live event administration.
Go to Admin settings > Live events
Click Create > Live event. Follow the instructions in Create a live event in Stream
Monitor your event
Google drive files on demand. As an organizer or producer you can monitor the audience engagement in real-time. Quickly toggle between audience and producer views to see different screens and monitor analytics like current viewers, likes and total views for your event.
Capabilities
The following are capabilities of live events:
| Operation | Limits |
|---|---|
| Create live events in Microsoft Stream1 | Enterprise (E1, E3, E5), Education (A3, A5) |
| Create live events in Microsoft 3651 (Teams and/or Yammer with external encoder)2 | Enterprise (E1, E3, E5), Education (A3, A5) |
| Watch live event | Viewers with permissions on the event and a valid Microsoft Stream license |
| Maximum resolution | 720p |
| Maximum concurrent live events (in pre-live or live) | 153 |
| Active concurrent viewers | 10,0003 |
| Maximum length of live event | 4 hours |
| Partner network caching support | Hive, Kollective, Ramp |
| Other network caching support | May work but not supported |
| Attendee DVR controls | Pause, playback speed (2x catch up, 1x at live), seek |
| Real-time captions | 708 caption pass-through from encoder |
| Automatic speech-to-text and captions | Processed after event |
| Interactive discussions | Supported via Yammer when event is created from Yammer |
| Microsoft Stream comments | Available after event |
| On-demand viewing on live event (after event) 4 | Automatic transition for live to on-demand for immediate viewing and indexing in Microsoft Stream |
| Downloadable recording | Processed and available after live event by owners |
Yammer Integration
If your organization uses Yammer, Teams Live Events also can be embedded into a Yammer page. This allows for great discoverability, as well as the ability to have a running Yammer thread accessible by all viewers.
Microsoft Teams Assistance
Microsoft Teams is a powerful platform, and Worktank is excited about the experiences it can empower. We stand ready to help your organization take advantage of the full value of the platform.
To learn more about making the move to Microsoft Teams to engage with your clients and colleagues, contact us or call 1-877-WRKTANK.
-->Important
Microsoft 365 live event limit increases
Discord search. To continue supporting our customers' needs, through June 30, 2021, we will extend temporary limit increases for live events, including:
- Event support for up to 20,000 attendees
- 50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant
- Event duration of 16 hours per broadcast
Additionally, live events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft 365 live events assistance program. The team will assess each request and work with you to determine options that may be available. Learn more.
Overview of live events
You can create live events using Microsoft Stream across the organization. You can schedule, produce, and deliver live events for a variety of scenarios such as companywide events, leadership updates and more. Live events enable producers to curate and control the content that is broadcast to an audience.
Tip
Do you have a question about or need help with live events? Contact our Live Events Assistance team to get started!
You can create, schedule and run live events using a single bitrate RTMP or RTMPS stream from an encoder – we'll take care of all the transcoding for adaptive bitrate delivery to your viewers.
Just like any other video in Stream, you can make the live event open to your entire company or limit the access to specific groups. This provides an end-to-end creation and viewing experience inside of Stream.
After the event, the video will be available on demand with intelligent features including:
Cached
Speech-to-text and closed captions
Transcript search and timecodes let you quickly find moments that matter in a video.
Live events in Microsoft 365
You can create a live event in Stream, Microsoft Teams or Yammer — wherever your audience, team, or community resides. Attendees can participate in real time, with high-definition (HD) video and interactive discussion, or catch up later with powerful AI features that unlock the content of the event recording. Seamless integration across Microsoft 365 means that you can use Stream to deliver highly produced, studio-quality events. Learn more about live events in Microsoft 365.
Ignite 2019 session: M365 live events - How to produce an event, architecture, admin, which tool when
If you missed our 'M365 live events across Teams, Yammer, & Stream' session at Ignite in November 2019, you can watch the recording of the session below or go to the Microsoft Tech Community to download resources for the session.
Get started
Ensure that users you want to be able to create live events have the granted permissions required to create a live event.
Microsoft Live Meeting Limits
By default, everyone in your organization can create a live event, however a Stream admin can restrict access. Learn more about live event administration.
Go to Admin settings > Live events
Click Create > Live event. Follow the instructions in Create a live event in Stream
Monitor your event
Google drive files on demand. As an organizer or producer you can monitor the audience engagement in real-time. Quickly toggle between audience and producer views to see different screens and monitor analytics like current viewers, likes and total views for your event.
Capabilities
The following are capabilities of live events:
| Operation | Limits |
|---|---|
| Create live events in Microsoft Stream1 | Enterprise (E1, E3, E5), Education (A3, A5) |
| Create live events in Microsoft 3651 (Teams and/or Yammer with external encoder)2 | Enterprise (E1, E3, E5), Education (A3, A5) |
| Watch live event | Viewers with permissions on the event and a valid Microsoft Stream license |
| Maximum resolution | 720p |
| Maximum concurrent live events (in pre-live or live) | 153 |
| Active concurrent viewers | 10,0003 |
| Maximum length of live event | 4 hours |
| Partner network caching support | Hive, Kollective, Ramp |
| Other network caching support | May work but not supported |
| Attendee DVR controls | Pause, playback speed (2x catch up, 1x at live), seek |
| Real-time captions | 708 caption pass-through from encoder |
| Automatic speech-to-text and captions | Processed after event |
| Interactive discussions | Supported via Yammer when event is created from Yammer |
| Microsoft Stream comments | Available after event |
| On-demand viewing on live event (after event) 4 | Automatic transition for live to on-demand for immediate viewing and indexing in Microsoft Stream |
| Downloadable recording | Processed and available after live event by owners |
1 The Stream admin can restrict permissions to create live events.
2 You must be a group owner to create a live event in Yammer.
3 Number of live events and attendee counts are subject to change and dependent on service availability.
4 Live events are subject to storage usage in Microsoft Stream. The size of the post-live encoded top bitrate, used also as the downloadable recording, is used towards storage quota. Licensing overview.
Live events in Microsoft 365 is a highly available service and you can expect good performance at scale. In the very unlikely scenario that results in failover being required, live events using external encoding will not have redundancy and are not be recoverable.
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