Upgrade to Teams Town hall
Since the general availability of Teams town hall in October 2023, we continue to bring more features from Teams Live Events along with new functionality into the new town hall experience. Town hall will continue to be the platform where our new features and value land, and we encourage Teams Live Events users to take advantage of these new innovations by upgrading to town hall when ready. Below is what is already available and what is still coming, and we will update this list as more features become available. For additional details on specific features and timing, please refer to the Microsoft 365 Public Roadmap.
Features in product
Scale
- 100,000 attendee event capacity (Teams Premium)
- Microsoft eCDN and third-party eCDN support
- Ultra low-latency events (up to 20,000 attendees)
- Support for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD clouds
IT admin controls
- Separate transcription policies
- Separate recording policies
Devices integration
- Present or attend from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices
- Attend from Microsoft Teams Room on Android devices
- Microsoft Teams Rooms hybrid events support
- Cloud Video Interoperability (CVI) presenter support
- PSTN codes (dial-in) to join town halls and webinars
Extensibility
- SharePoint embed
- Graph APIs
- Viva Engage integration
Advanced broadcast and streaming
- NDI support
- RTMP-In support in Teams
- Streaming playback on external devices
- Download transcription and view RTMP-in
Management controls
- Event templates and scheduling forms
- External email automation software support
- Separate invites for attendees and presenters
Host and scene controls
- Green Room pre/post-event
- Preview content before sending it live to attendees
- Customized production layouts
- Organizer, co-organizers, and presenters can join as attendees
- Moderate Q&A (as organizers, co-organizers, presenters, or anonymous)
- Backstage private chat for organizers, co-organizers, and presenters
- Specify production control to organizers, co-organizers, and presenters
- Add presenters during the event from the participant roster or audience
- Language translations (Teams Premium)
- Block attendee emails
Event resources
- On-demand recording
- Attendance/engagement reporting
- Q&A reporting
- Team Admin Center usage reports
- Intelligent meeting recap (Teams Premium)
- Call Quality Dashboard
- Microsoft Purview support
Attendee engagement
- Streaming event chat (Teams Premium)
- Reactions (Teams Premium)
- Reactions (Teams Premium)
- Q&A (up to 20,000 attendees)
- Raise hands
- Digital Video Recording (DVR) support for Town hall
- Live translated captions
- Join link for external presenter
Features we’re working on
- Separate attendance report policies
- RTMP redundancy
- SRT support
- Teams AI captions in RTMP
- Town hall registration
- Separate town hall attendee invites
- Full event editing parity for organizers/co-organizers
- Persistent green room experience
- New custom town hall screen layouts
- Change visible presenter info
IT admin controls
Advanced broadcast and streaming
Management controls
Host and scene controls
Support for Business Users
Check out the resources below to find out how to get started on setting up and delivering your organization’s town hall, all hands, global team event, and more!
Need additional support? The Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) can help provide guidance and best practices for delivering a successful event.
Support for IT Pros
Read through our resources below to ensure your organization is ready to begin using town halls, including verifying your event policies and managing who is able to schedule and set up town halls within your organization.
