Empower colleagues to work smarter and collaborate seamlessly from nearly any location with the new features coming to Teams.
Empower colleagues to work smarter and collaborate seamlessly from nearly any location with the new features coming to Teams.
Create connections and drive engagement with webinars
Set up a webinar
Learn how to host webinars in Microsoft Teams and find helpful resources.
Make events memorable
Deliver your best webinars and live events with guidance and support.
Find a webinar event partner
Get help from a trusted Microsoft partner to develop, produce, and deliver your virtual event.
Host and deliver webinars from nearly anywhere
Connect and build relationships with your customers, partners, network, and community through webinars that provide a secure, familiar experience.
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Easily set up and customize registration
Use the expanded registration options in Teams to customize the setup and scheduling of each webinar to fit its unique purpose.
Personalize registration details and settings
Manage webinar setup and scheduling with specific options for themes, configuration, and presenter bios.
Share the workload for managing your event
Designate up to 10 co-organizers to help set event options, admit attendees, spotlight presenters, and manage breakout rooms during your event.
Showcase presenters and their expertise
Highlight each speaker’s credentials—such as featuring a professional headshot and their company, title, LinkedIn profile, social media account, and bio.
Drive brand awareness while promoting your event
Strengthen your brand and align your event’s theme with a banner, logo, and color scheme on the registration page and in webinar emails.
Scale registration capacity
Help control and manage who can join your webinar by specifying the number of registrants allowed (up to 1,000 attendees).
Learn more about your audience
Gather pertinent information about prospective attendees during registration with custom questions, and upload terms and conditions to obtain consent.
Back to tabsAutomate and manage webinar communications
Send automated confirmation and cancellation emails that include your organization’s name for easier recognition.
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Present with confidence
Bring your best self to every webinar and make a lasting impression with all the tools you need to feel confident and prepared.
Elevate and personalize your presentation
Add your Teams camera feed to your PowerPoint presentation and customize how and where you appear on slides with the cameo feature.
Align your presentation to the event theme
Personalize your event and display your brand with custom or predesigned backgrounds.
Make your content stand out from the crowd
Show up on camera with presenter mode, whether you use the standout, side-by-side, or reporter layouts.
Back to tabsPresent like a pro
Keep yourself organized with PowerPoint Live—a unique view that allows presenters to see and manage content, talking points, chat, and attendees.
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Capture attendee interest
Make webinars more visually immersive and interesting using built-in engagement features.
Maintain participant engagement
Take advantage of interactive features, such as live reactions, the ability to raise hands, chat, and real-time polls and surveys.
Easily moderate discussions
Ask attendees to pose questions and share their thoughts and feedback through a structured Q&A experience.
Create an inclusive, accessible environment
Give attendees options for participating in ways that work best for them—such as with CART captioning, real-time captioning, and live transcription.
Back to tabsFoster deeper connections
Use breakout rooms for attendees to have discussions with one another or with presenters in smaller forums.
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Measure event success and follow up with attendees
Learn which content resonated, review overall attendance, and stay connected with attendees after your event ends.
Assess and understand attendee participation
Measure participation after your event using attendee reporting to analyze who attended and for how long.
Back to tabsBuild ongoing, personalized relationships
Follow up with attendees using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing (separate license required) to customize customer journeys and nurture interaction.
Webinars in Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Office 365 E3/E5, with Teams Enterprise
Compare the Teams webinar capabilities available with Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Office 365 E3/E5 and advanced webinar capabilities offered with Teams Premium. Updating to Teams Premium enables advanced webinar host and management controls that enrich the entire event lifecycle.
| Advanced webinars in Teams Premium
| Basic webinars in Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Office 365 E3/E5, with Teams Enterprise
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| Advanced webinars in Teams Premium | Basic webinars in Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and Office 365 E3/E5, with Teams Enterprise | |
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| Scale |  | |
| Ability to host up to 1,000 attendees | | |
| Event management | |  |
| Registration | | |
| Registration start- and end-time customization | | |
| Waitlist and manual approval | | |
| Automated confirmation, reminder, and cancellation emails | | |
| Email customization for webinar communications | | |
| Co-organizer support | | |
| Recording with video on-demand | | |
| Attendee reporting | | |
| Production | | |
| Presenter modes and dynamic layouts | | |
| PowerPoint Live | | |
| Live translations with captions | | |
| Virtual green room | | |
| Manage what attendees see | | |
| Hide attendee names | | |
| RTMP-in | | |
| Live stream to Meta Workplace Live | | |
| Audience engagement | | |
| Interactivity (chat, live reactions, raise hands, polls) | | |
| Moderated Q&A | | |
| Breakout rooms | | |
| Marketing capabilities | | |
| Dynamics 365 Marketing integration | | |
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Frequently asked questions
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The word “webinar” is a combination of “seminar” and “web,” and it could be a presentation, a lecture, a workshop, or another event hosted online. Webinars and virtual events platforms are used to build engagement and relationships; enable hybrid work; empower communication and collaboration with employees working remotely and in different locations; and inform, demonstrate, and teach.
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Ordinary meetings generally include a lot of back and forth among the participants—having discussions, sharing, assigning and accepting tasks, making plans, and working toward consensus.
Webinars, on the other hand, are more controlled, and the participants have clearer roles. One or more experts (the presenters) share their ideas or provide training to an audience (the attendees or participants).
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Anyone who can schedule a Teams meeting can schedule a webinar. If you’re unable to schedule one, check with your IT admin.
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Anyone can register, but your IT admin can restrict registration to people in your organization. You may also choose to restrict registration when you schedule the webinar.
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After your webinar, create customer journeys and send personalized follow-up emails to your attendees using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing.
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Webinars in Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions add basic webinar functionality to Microsoft Teams Enterprise, such as registration for up to 1,000 attendees, a co-organizer role, interactivity with Q&A, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 Marketing options. Advanced webinars in Teams Premium include all of the basic webinar functionality but with new host controls and event management controls that help you seamlessly connect with any audience. Some of these advanced features include automated reminder emails, a registration waitlist and manual approval, a virtual green room, and the ability to manage what attendees see on screen.
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