External Presenters in Teams Live Events

Hi All,

Thanks for your posting. We received many users reported about External presenter doesn’t not working in Live Events, and it may occur periodically. We have aware of this problem and the related team is analyzing the logs and working hard to investigate it right now. There is no ETA currently.

I will help you monitor the process, if there are any updates, I will let you know immediately.

Your understanding and cooperation are highly appreciated. Thanks for your support of Microsoft.

Best Regards,

Sylvie

This does not appear to work. Steps to reproduce:

1. create a live event, and as part of the creation process, add an external email address as a presenter roll. It lets you add it from this interface, and only from this interface it seems.
2. make the live event available to ALL (Public security)
3. on the personal email account who will be the presenter. Create a microsoft account and log into it.
4. click on the teams link. When prompted, log in again as the personal account and select "join on web".
5. a login loop is created, where you are redirected to the teams log in page and asked to log in again. Selecting "join anonymously" allows you to join the meeting but not as a presenter. The joined external person does not show up in the list of attendees, and so can not be granted control of the meeting in that way either.

If i try it with the thick teams application, i get the below message, indicating that i have no rights to use teams.

Can you guys at microsoft not reproduce this extremely simply and one would think common use case?

Hi Sylvie 

I still experience exactly the same that sharepointisneedlesslycomplex replied already to your message.

I work for a very big company and we are looking for a easy to handle webinar tool.

MS Teams Live Events seems to be great, but as we often have external presenters this point has to be fixed quickly.

It doesn't work at the moment, i really tried everything also with all the inputs from this Q&A chat, so at what point are we regarding this problem? That can't be that difficult...

I actually tried the same thing, with the same result as well, even trying to invite my daughters outlook.com account didnt work, as she didnt have teams licensed, and even though they say they are giving teams away for free right now, it seems to not be the case if you are using it for personal use and not tied to a school or business.

I am looking forward to the day when we can tell our large enterprise user base they can invite people outside the company to present, and those folks can simply fill out their name ala zoom.

Dear All,

I just want to say that I am very interested in the solution to this problem. I want to host a seminar where we usually invite guest to be presenters. As of now, this works for a meeting but not for live event. Let us know when this is fixed.

Hi All,

Thanks for your posting. We received many users reported about External presenter doesn’t not working in Live Events, and it may occur periodically. We have aware of this problem and the related team is analyzing the logs and working hard to investigate it right now. There is no ETA currently.

I will help you monitor the process, if there are any updates, I will let you know immediately.

Your understanding and cooperation are highly appreciated. Thanks for your support of Microsoft.

Best Regards,

Sylvie