Manage who can schedule webinars in Microsoft Teams

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Information icon. Some features described in this article require Teams Premium.

Microsoft Teams offers webinars, a two-way interactive virtual event. As an admin, you can set up and manage who can schedule webinars in your organization.

For more information on how to plan for webinars in your org, see Plan for Teams webinars.

To learn more about the webinar experience for your users, see Get Started with Teams webinars.

Note

The webinar experience isn't available for Microsoft 365 GCC High or Microsoft 365 DoD.

Manage webinars using the Teams admin center

You can use the Teams admin center to set up and manage the webinar experience for your organization.

Turn webinars on or off

Follow these steps in the Teams admin center to turn webinars on or off:

  1. Open the Teams admin center.
  2. Select Meetings from the navigation pane.
  3. Under Meetings, select Events Policies.
  4. Either select an existing policy or create a new one.
  5. Toggle the Allow webinars setting On or Off.
  6. Select Save.

Manage webinars using PowerShell

You can use PowerShell to set up and manage the webinar experience for your organization.

To set up webinars, use the -AllowWebinars parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsEventsPolicy cmdlet.

The following table shows the behaviors of the settings for the -AllowWebinars parameter:

Setting value Behavior
Enabled Users with this policy can create webinars.
Disabled Users with this policy can't create webinars.

Before you can run these cmdlets, you must be connected to Microsoft Teams PowerShell. For more information, see Manage Teams with Microsoft Teams PowerShell.

For more information on PowerShell cmdlets for Teams webinars, see Related articles.

Turn on webinars

To turn on webinars, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowWebinars Enabled

Turn off webinars

To turn off webinars, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowWebinars Disabled

Manage whether organizers can schedule public or private webinars

You can use PowerShell to manage whether organizers can create public or private webinars:

To allow organizers to only create private webinars, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -EventAccessType EveryoneInCompanyExcludingGuests

To allow organizers to create public or private webinars, use the following script. Public webinars may include anonymous users:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -EventAccessType Everyone