External Presenters in Teams Live Events

it appears that you are adding this "guest" as a user in your azure. Correct me if i am wrong. This would make them part of the company, and not by definition, a guest. Also probably a bad idea for many reasons, even though it does solve the problem. (security, access to corporate resources, having to involve IT department instead of being self serve, administrative burden creating and destroying users for one offs, remembering to kill their account later, etc)

We ended up having to pay for a zoom account to do this now. Zoom just works 100% of the time and in all situations.

So now, whenever we want to have guests join us, we use zoom instead of teams. very sucky but microsoft is not what one would consider nimble in responding to users concerns. I've been working with M$ for over 20 years and they have never cared about the user. They dont have to, they have our money.

Dear MM Allegro,

Thanks for the Jose’s share firstly, I did some test and searched some docs about Live event, so make the following additions.

#1. If you want to join a live event as guest presenter, please try to do as this way:

Step 1. Add the guest to event group as presenter and schedule the Live event.

Step 2. Open the live event in Calendar, then scroll down and right click on the Join live event link and Copy Link. (we do it because there is no “Calendar” in guest account)

Step 3. Send the invitation link to guest, they could copy this link to a web browser and select to open Teams client. This should take guest to the Live Event meeting and should be able to join as an presenter.

#2. The question for produce a live event, you could see this doc: Produce your live event, there are detailed introduce about schedule a live event, Queue, share the desktop or window and so on.

#3. There are some difference between presenter and producer on live event control, see related doc: Present in a live event in Teams

#4. Add audio to the live event using any audio capture device that will take balanced audio (XLR connector) or even a headphone style 1/8-inch plug and let you plug into the computer running Teams via USB. Reference for you: Best practices for producing a Teams live event

Feel free to let me know if there are other questions.

Thanks,

Linda

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

According to my test, we indeed need add the external user (I used other account, not O365/Microsoft account) to our team as guest firstly.

Thanks,

Linda

The ability for Office 365 guests and federated users to be presenters and producers of a Teams live event is now live.

For more details about how to plan for Teams live events, and different core capabilities and features, see this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-live-events/plan-for-teams-live-events

this was done and the external presenters were still not able to join as presenters.