Hi @Michiel Dekkers ,

The Microsoft Teams live events still have a maximum period of 16 hours, you'll find all the Microsoft Teams limitations over here:

Teams live events
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#teams-live-events

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Hi @Michiel Dekkers ,

The Microsoft Teams live events still have a maximum period of 16 hours, you'll find all the Microsoft Teams limitations over here:

Teams live events
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#teams-live-events

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@Michiel Dekkers ,

The maximum duration of event scheduled in Oct 12th is 16 hours.

The latest official document said that Microsoft will temporarily raise default limits until January 1, 2021. After January 1, 2021, customers who need these limit increases will be required to purchase the Advanced Communications add-on.

For more details, please refer to this article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#teams-live-events.

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Due to limited controls for managing a live event in the Teams online version, all producers, moderators and presenters must join via the desktop client.
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r/MicrosoftTeams on Reddit: Limitations of Microsoft Live as oppose from Teams meetings?
September 4, 2019 -

Hi,

During this mandatory shelter from home quarentine time my company is considering using Teams Live stream for our all hands meetings since we use Teams for virtual conferencing. I wanted to ask if anyone can let me know some of the limitations that they have noticed or drawbacks for using Teams live as oppose from other streaming services. The Limitations I've noticed so far are:

  • cannot display two presenters at once (side by side)

  • Cannot share audio with content

  • cannot pipe in music for intro/outro

  • seems to have a delay in certain scenarios

Is there any other drawbacks big or small that you have noticed when using Teams Live stream? I am new to Teams and have to present the list of pros and cons. I'd appreciate any input at all.

Thank you

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i managed to produce a few live meetings for just such a thing for my company. (10 sessions over an 8 month period) Always has a delay. TO pipe in audio from a video, my boss bought us an HDMI capture dongle. Was fairly easy to figure out. Also tried using OBS (streaming software) *Teams allows 'another program' to produce , and just stream that via the meeting when it comes time. It captured the audio. and nope, cant display 2 presenters stock. again, probably OBS would be a good fit for that. The pro's are it integrates with your MS. it does provide reports after of who attended. It records stuff, iirc.
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Live has a delay by design. I believe it's so there's less interference in quality caused by buffering/connection issues.
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March 24, 2020 -

Hello everyone! I am working for a large company (+15K employees) and the live event feature on Teams is activated to everyone (option to connect an encoder is disabled)

With the limitation of 15 concurrent live events to be created on Teams, what solution did you implement to limit the number of live events created?

Thank you for your help!

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Use Live Event policies and grant the rights to organize Live events to a group in-charge who keeps track and monitors and supports it.
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Yup— limit people who can schedule the events.
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Contact your IT admin to make sure producers and presenters are assigned the right TeamsMeetingPolicy with the correct settings for IPVideo and ScreenSharing. If ScreenSharingMode or IPVIdeo are set to None, producers and presenters won't be able to share their screens. Ensure network bandwidth requirements account for media traffic: With the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP), we can help you get more familiar with setting up and running an event, webinar, or large meeting and be available during the event to help if any questions or issues come up.
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