From the course: Running Live Events and Webinars with Microsoft Teams

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Schedule a town hall in Teams

Schedule a town hall in Teams

To schedule a town hall in Microsoft Teams, go to your Teams calendar. Click the dropdown arrow on the New meeting button, and under Templates, you're going to choose "Town hall." In the title, you're going to enter the title of your town hall. So the title of my town hall is Demonstration of Teams Town Hall. We're going to enter a start date and an end date, and you want this to be at least 24 hours out. So we're actually going to schedule this on the 14th at a reasonable time of day, 2:00 p.m. and it's going to end an hour later. Now, you could have it end up to 30 hours later because you can use town halls for really long gatherings, but 30 hours is the maximum. And if you wish, you can click the button and make sure that you're in the right time zone. This is simply a toggle. Under Description, you're going to enter a description for your attendees. For example, demonstration of new features for large meetings in Microsoft 365. And now we're going to add people to the event group.…

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