Microsoft Teams Meetings and Limits
Microsoft Teams is licenced for all University staff and students and can be used to setup the following types of meeting/event:
- Teams Meeting
- Webinar
- Town Hall
Limitations on numbers and features exist for each type of meeting and are as follows:
Feature
Meetings
Webinars
Town halls
Lobby
✔️
✔️
✖️
Attendee mic and camera
✔️
✔️
✖️
End-to-end encryption
Premium
✖️
✖️
Watermarks
Premium
✖️
✖️
Theme
Premium
✔️
✔️
Registration
✖️
✔️
✖️
Breakout rooms
✔️
✖️
✖️
Content sharing and interaction
✔️
✔️
Q&A only
Interactive participants
1,000
1,000
Town halls: 10,000
View-only participants
10,000
✖️
✖️
Maximum total participants
11,000
1,000
Town halls: 10,000
Teams Premium functionality is not currently available as this is an additional licence
For full details on the types of meetings that can be organised and the features available, please refer to the following Microsoft article:
Overview of meetings, webinars, and town halls - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn
For specific guidance on setting up each time please refer to the links below: