Online meetings

Meetings help teams share status updates, brainstorm ideas, and solve issues together. Microsoft Teams is designed to help you have more productive meetings whether that’s collaborating through online meetings, webinars, live events, or audio and video conferencing. Microsoft Teams comes with many different features that can help your team quickly engage and improve how they work together through meetings.

• Manage all meeting activities in one place. A user’s calendar in Teams is connected to their Exchange calendar so when users schedule a meeting in Outlook, their meeting is automatically visible and accessible from Teams and vice versa. Users can also start meetings whenever they want, without scheduling them. Users can join meetings through links, their Teams calendar, or call into meetings using their phones through audio conferencing. Calling or dialing into meetings is useful for users who are on the road or when internet connectivity is limited. Audio conferencing allows up to 1000 phone attendees. Centralize your meeting activities with the Meet app in Teams. Meet helps users prepare for meetings, review past discussions and quickly discover meeting content like chats, files, and agendas. Meet enhances meeting efficiency by simplifying the prep work and reducing time spent revisiting past meetings. Teams Premium includes features like live captions in different languages during meetings and smart summaries after meetings.
• Conduct different types of meetings. Meetings, webinars, and live events are all types of meetings, but webinars and live events provide extra control for the organizer over the conversation and participants. Teams can detect what’s said in a meeting and present real-time captions with speaker attribution. You can blur or use custom backgrounds during video meetings and share your screen or content.
  • Meetings in Teams include audio, video, and screen sharing for up to 1,000 people. View-only capabilities are for participants over 1,000 up to 20,000. Participants don’t need to be a member of an organization (or have a Teams account) to join a Teams meeting. They can join directly from the calendar invitation via the “Join meeting” link or call in via audio if available.
  • Webinars are structured meetings where presenters and participants have clear roles, often used for training purposes or sales and marketing lead generation scenarios. Webinars provide two-way interaction. Participants up to 1,000 have fully interactive capabilities.
  • Live events are structured meetings that enable your organization to schedule and produce events that stream to large online audiences, up to 20,000 participants. Live events provide a managed Q&A experience. You can create a live event wherever your audience, team, or community resides, using Teams or Microsoft Stream, Teams.