Teams Premium - Advanced Webinars in Teams Meeting

The advanced webinar feature is built upon the basics. Currently, Microsoft 365 offerings—registration up to one thousand attendees, co-organizer role, theming, interactivity with Q&A, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration. With the Teams Premium license- new host controls and event management controls make it seamless to connect with any audience.

How to enable the advanced webinar feature?

Admin can create a new Teams Event Policy through PowerShell and assign the policy to Premium licensed users/groups.

New-CsTeamsEventPolicy -Identity "Advanced Webinar" -AllowWebinars Enabled.

Apply the policy to individual user

Grant-CsTeamsEventPolicy -PolicyName "Advanced Webinar" -Identity "User UPN".

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Currently, if you configured the Teams Meeting policy for meeting registration with "AllowMeetingRegistration - ON", this experience will continue to work without any impact.

Registration Waitlist and Manual Approval

The registration experience gets even better in Teams Premium with a registration waitlist, manual approval, and custom registration start and end times. Enabling the waitlist will keep webinar registration open even after the event has reached the capacity set by the organizer to allow additional people to register and be automatically added to the waitlist. As new spots open, people will be automatically moved to the pending approval state, which enables the organizer to review their registration information and manually approve or reject each of the registrants. In addition, you can customize the registration start and end time to specify when you want registration to start and end, making it easier to plan for and manage your event.

How to use the advanced registration settings offered with Teams Premium?

Once you navigate to Teams Calendar and select Webinar, a window with two sections on the left pane will appear.

1. Setup: basic webinar information, presenter bios, and themes.
2. Registration: allows configuration of registration including the capacity to set how many can attend an event, whether manual approval of all event registrations is needed, enable a waitlist, and limit the registration window to a certain date and timeframe.

Once you complete the sections in Setup, proceed to Registration and customize the registration form with options to enable manual approval of all event registrations, waitlist, and set limits to the registration window.

You can limit your participants to the meeting. If you set automatic approval with 500 participant capacity, the event will be automatically approved by whoever comes first.

 As people register, if manual approval is on, they will show up in Attendee status for organizers to Approve/Reject.