Microsoft Teams Premium Town hall

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 29, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

To simplify the virtual event experience on Teams, we are integrating our live event capabilities into our Teams meeting experience. This will create a unified experience for users whether they are hosting a small meeting, customer-facing webinar, or company-wide town hall. As a part of this integration, we are introducing Town halls in Microsoft Teams, a new experience to host and deliver large-scale, internal events to create connections across an organization. Town halls will provide a one-to-many format with advanced production capabilities and a structured approach for attendee engagement. With town halls, customers can host various types of internal as well as external events including company-wide town halls, all hands, global team meetings, internal broadcasts, fireside chats, and more. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 173182

When this will happen:

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early October 2023 and expect to complete mid-October 2023

How this will affect your organization:

Town hall will replace Teams Live Events and be available for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 customers and advanced capabilities in town hall will be available for Teams Premium customers. The new town hall experience will be generally available and start to roll out globally to commercial customers on October 5. Starting at launch, town hall will have an ongoing release of features to create parity with Teams Live Events functionality and will reach full feature parity ahead of Teams Live Events retirement in September 2024.

Our recommendation is that customers (both existing and new) start using town hall as it becomes generally available in October. Advanced town hall functionality in Teams Premium provides the following capabilities, everything in basic town hall functionality (co-organizer support; automated invitation and email recording emails; green room; manage what attendees see; RTMP-in; RTMP-out; on-demand recording; live transcription (AI-generated); AI-generated captions; and attendee reporting) plus:

• Attendee capacity of 20,000 attendees
• Host up to 50 concurrent events across a tenant
• Email customization
• Microsoft eCDN support with real-time insights and monitoring
• Live translation captions (up to 10 languages)

Scale up to 20k

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Real Time event Analytics. (found inside reporting tab) 

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Custom Email Communications

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Support up to 10 languages for Transcription 

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10 languages: en-us (English), ja-jp (Japanese), es-es (Spanish), pt-pt (Portuguese), fr-fr (French), zh-cn (Chinese), de-de (German), it-it (Italian), ko-kr (Korean), ru-ru (Russian)

What you need to do to prepare:

This feature will be enabled by default upon release with Premium subscription, however if required by Admin Policy, can be disabled.

Please update PowerShell module to the latest version before making Large Scale Meeting Event policy changes.

To disable Town hall use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowTownhalls Disabled

To disable Public Town hall utilize the following parameter (this will affect Webinars as well)

-EventAccessType : EveryoneInCompanyExcludingGuests

Everyone: Enables creating events to allow in-tenant, guests, federated, and anonymous (external to the tenant) users to join the event. (enables/disables a public Large Scale Event)

Note: Learn more about town hall when documentation becomes available on adoption.microsoft.com and learn.microsoft.com on October 5.

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