Webinar and Town Hall settings in the Teams Events policy decide which event types users can create in the Events app. Worth knowing if you use the Teams Events app.
Webinars in Teams now support breakout rooms with up to 1,000 participants and 100 rooms, up from 300 participants and 50 rooms.
Microsoft is restructuring Teams Events into foundational and advanced event features, with updated license mappings starting at the end of September 2026. Admins should review the licenses assigned to Teams Events organizers and assign an eligible Teams Enterprise license to organizers who need advanced event features.
Microsoft is separating controls for Teams Events attendance and engagement reports from those for Teams Meetings. Teams admins should review and prepare their attendance and engagement reporting settings in Teams Events policies before the rollout.
Microsoft is simplifying the Broadcast and Collaborative event types with a new large audience setting in Teams Events. The setting automatically applies to events with more than 1,000 attendees.
Events in Microsoft Teams now support SRT as an inbound streaming protocol alongside RTMP, offering better resilience for external encoder setups.
Your event organizers should be aware of this limit if they start using the new Teams Events app. Collaborative events have a hard limit of 1000 attendees. No view-only fallback, no exceptions. More attendees are rejected.
Microsoft is updating the port and domain requirements for RTMP-In streaming in Teams Events. Administrators need to update firewall rules before mid-July 2026 to keep streaming working.
Microsoft Teams now supports reusable event templates for meetings, webinars, and town halls in the new Events app, with no Teams Premium license required.
Microsoft replaced the Meet app in Teams with an updated, unified Events app that aligns with the unified Teams Events experience. Previously, this app was accidentally deployed as an Outlook Mail app for Teams in specific tenants.
The unified Teams Events experience introduces a new Registration setting for all Teams Events in the Meet app, available by default.