Manage live streaming for Teams meetings and webinars

APPLIES TO: ✔️Meetings ✔️Webinars ✖️Town halls

Live streaming allows organizers in your org to expand their reach and provide a unique experience for meeting and webinar attendees. As an admin, when you enable live streaming, your organizers can stream meetings and webinars to external endpoints by providing a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) URL and key to the built-in Custom Streaming app in Teams.

To learn more about how your organizers can use RTMP to live stream meetings and webinars, see Broadcast audio and video from Teams with RTMP.

Manage live streaming for your users

You can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell to manage whether organizers with this assigned policy can live stream their meetings and webinars through RTMP.

Manage live streaming in the Teams admin center

Follow these steps to manage live streaming in the Teams admin center:

1. In the Teams admin center, expand Meetings and then select Meeting policies.
2. Select the policy that you want to edit.
3. Under Audio & video, set Live streaming to On.
4. Select Save

Manage live streaming with PowerShell

To manage whether organizers with this policy can live stream their meetings and webinars through RTMP, use the -LiveStreamingMode parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet.

To allow organizers with this policy to stream their meetings through RTMP, use the following script:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -LiveStreamingMode Enabled

For information on how to assign policies with PowerShell, see Assign policies in Teams.

Related topics

• Assign policies in Teams
• Manage RTMP-In for Teams meetings, webinars, and town halls
• Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy
• Quick start - Meetings, webinars, and live events
• Plan meetings
• Plan webinars