In this post, we will learn How to Enable Public Live Events in Microsoft Teams to avoid the Public Live Event Grayed Out issue when creating a new Live Event in Microsoft Teams.
Enable Public Live Events in Microsoft Teams
What’re Microsoft Teams Meeting Types?
In Microsoft Teams Desktop, You can create three types of meetings as stated below:
Teams meetings – Microsoft Teams meetings include audio, video, and screen sharing. A Teams meeting is one of the key ways to collaborate in Teams.
Teams webinars – Microsoft Teams webinars provide the tools to schedule a webinar, register attendees, run an interactive presentation, and analyze attendee data for effective follow-up.
Teams Live Events – Microsoft Teams Live Events enable users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience, such as a company town hall meeting.
Microsoft Teams Live Events let you plan and create events that stream to sizable online audiences as an extension of Teams meetings.
Live events encourage interaction with guests before, during, and after the event to maximize engagement.
Live events are designed for one-to-many communication, with the event host facilitating the discussions and audience involvement focusing mostly on viewing the host’s shared content.
Attendees can engage with the presenters through a moderated Q&A session or a Yammer conversation while seeing the live or recorded event in Teams or Yammer.
When creating a new Live event, you will notice that there are three Permission types of Live Events as stated below:
People and Groups: Only the specified people and groups can watch the live event.
Org-wide: Everyone in your org can watch the live event. (Sign-in required).
Public: The live event will be open to anyone. Use when most of the attendees are outside your org. (No sign-in required).
Live Event Permissions in Microsoft Teams
Public Live Event Greyed Out in Microsoft Teams
By default, the Public Live event is not enabled when creating a new live event in Microsoft Teams as stated below:
A public live event is disabled in Microsoft Teams
How to Enable Public Live Events in Microsoft Teams?
In Microsoft Teams, to Enable Public Live Events, you have to edit Live events policies to allow Everyone can join a live event by doing the following:
From the left menu, click on Meetings > Live events policies > Manage Policies tab.
Select the Global (Org-wide default), then click Edit.
Manage Live Events Policies
At “Who can join scheduled live events“, select “Everyone“.
Everyone Users can create live events that everyone, including people outside your organization, can attend. This setting enables the Public permission type in Teams when a user schedules a live event.
People in my organization Users can create live events that people in your organization, including guest users added to your organization, can attend. Users can’t create live events that are attended by anonymous users. This setting enables the Org-wide permission type in Teams when a user schedules a live event.
Specific users or groups Users can create live events that only specific users or groups in your organization can attend. Users can’t create live events that are attended by everyone in your organization or by anonymous users. This setting enables the People and groups permission type in Teams when a user schedules a live event.
Who can join scheduled live events?
Note: You may need to wait about 15 minutes and then close and restart Microsoft Teams to get the Public option enabled.
Conclusion
If you need to enable Public Live Event in Microsoft Teams, you have first to allow Everyone to join Live Event in Live Event Policies in Microsoft Teams Admin Center.
