Enabling Webinar Feature in Microsoft Teams

Webinars are structured meetings where instructors and participants have clear roles, often used for training purposes or sales and marketing lead generation scenarios.

After setting up webinars in your organization, your users can schedule webinars and open registration to attendees. Unlike traditional meetings that include many discussions and task assignment, webinars are meant for interactive presentations and provide tools for attendee analysis. Follow the steps below to enable the feature in your Organization.

- Install the Teams PowerShell Module

' Use below command in elevated PowerShell,

Import-Module MicrosoftTeams
$userCredential = Get-Credential
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $userCredential

' In the Windows PowerShell Credential Request dialog box, type your administrator account name and password, and then select OK.

You can use the following attributes within the Windows PowerShell Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet to set up for webinars in Teams.

• AllowMeetingRegistration
• WhoCanRegister
• AllowPrivateMeetingScheduling

- Allow users to schedule webinars

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowMeetingRegistration $True

- Configure who can register for webinars

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowPrivateMeetingScheduling $True

- To allow users who an be register for the Webinar

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -WhoCanRegister EveryoneInCompany

-To allow anyone, including anonymous users, to register for webinars,

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -WhoCanRegister Everyone

- Collect meeting attendance

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowEngagementReport Enabled

After enabling your environment for webinars, no further admin management is required. The policy controls which options show up for webinar organizers.