Allow External Presenters in a Teams Live Event

Owned by Milan Stanic
Apr 27, 2022
2 min read

In live events, the meeting organizer can give anonymous persons permission to present content. The anonymous presenters must join the meeting using Teams on the desktop or the iPad Teams app. 

  1. While scheduling the meeting, on the New live event page, select the Allow external presenters toggle to turn it on.

  2. Invite the anonymous presenters to the meeting through the invite, or send them the presenter join info after you send out the invite. (To get the presenter join info, open the event in your calendar, scroll to the bottom of the page, and copy the info under Microsoft Teams.)

  3. At the start of the meeting, anonymous presenters who do not have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity will enter the meeting lobby when they select the Join link. You must let them into the meeting.
    An Azure AD identity is a Microsoft email address given to someone by their company, or a personal Microsoft Business account.

  4. During the meeting, manually change the role of anonymous presenters:

    1. Select Show participants in your meeting controls to see a list of all the people in the meeting.

    2. Point to the name of the person whose role you want to change and select More options  > Make a presenter.

Once promoted to presenter, anonymous presenters can:

  • Share their audio and video.

  • Share content.

  • View the presenter group chat.

They cannot:

  1. Access the meeting Q&A.

  2. Remove others from the meeting.