Manage reactions in Teams meetings and webinars

APPLIES TO: Meetings Webinars Town halls

Overview

Reactions in Microsoft Teams meetings and webinars enhance communication and engagement by allowing participants to express their feedback in real time. As an admin, you set the default value for reactions in your organizers' Meeting options. Organizers can change the setting for each meeting and webinar they create.

For details on how your users can use reactions, see Express yourself in Microsoft Teams meetings with live reactions.

Manage reactions

By default, meeting reactions are set to On in your organizers' Meeting options.

Teams admin center

To manage the default value for meeting reactions through the Teams admin center, follow these steps:

1. In the Teams admin center, expand Meetings and select Meeting policies.
2. Select the policy that you want to edit.
3. Scroll to the Meeting engagement section.
4. Toggle the Reactions setting On or Off.
5. Select Save

PowerShell

You can use PowerShell to manage the default value for meeting reactions through the -AllowMeetingReactions parameter within the Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet.

To set the default for meeting reactions to Off for organizers with this policy, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowMeetingReactions Disabled

Related topics

• Express yourself in Teams meetings with live reactions
• Plan for Teams town halls
• Teams policy reference
• Assign policies to your users in Teams
• Teams PowerShell overview