Microsoft Teams town hall
Host professionally produced, large-scale events to create meaningful
connections inside and outside of your organization.
connections inside and outside of your organization.
KEY BENEFITS
Create deeper connections across a broad audience
Use town hall in Teams for a more polished and structured engagement with larger audiences.
- Built on the familiar Teams meeting experience, preparing and delivering a town hall feels similar and simplifies the experience.Reach a global audience with a secure, reliable, and high-quality live-streaming experience with real-time analytics.Gain peace of mind knowing the town hall experience is backed by enterprise-grade security in Microsoft 365.Analyze reporting to understand overall performance and make improvements for future events.
- Use production tools within and outside of Teams to deliver professionally produced events.Attract attendees with customized communications, branding, and event settings.Keep the focus on presenters and shared content by managing what attendees see on screen.
- Moderate the discussion and allow attendees to participate through Q&A.Break down the language barrier during your town hall with live translated captions and share the on-demand recording for convenient viewing.
CAPABILITIES
Make planning to execution seamless at scale
Town hall features are included with Teams Enterprise plans. Advanced features in town hall are included in Teams Premium.
Prepare and plan for an event
Easily set up an elevated event experience that can be customized to meet your needs.
Deliver and manage an event
Execute a professionally produced event that’s memorable and engaging.
Follow up after an event
Assess event performance and manage post-event engagement for improved outcomes.
Prepare and plan for an event
Town hall template
Take advantage of a dedicated template with pre-configured settings to make event scheduling easy.
Event branding
Showcase your event with a branded theme using customized colors, logos, and banners.
Teams Premium feature
High attendance capacity
Reach a broad, global audience with up to 20,000 attendees.
Teams Premium feature
Customized email communications
Attract attendees with customized invitations and follow-up recordings that are automatically sent as a part of the event flow.
Deliver and manage an event
Green room
Bring presenters and organizers together in the virtual green room—separate from attendees—to ensure preparation is seamless.
Manage what attendees see
Keep attendees focused and engaged by managing their view so they see only shared content and participants brought on screen.
RTMP-In
Produce polished events from an external hardware-based or software-based encoder and integrate external media feeds into the event.
Engagement
Create a sense of community and allow attendees to engage through moderated Q&A.
Live translation for captions
Easily moderate the conversation and provide a seamless way for attendees to ask questions and interact with presenters.
Teams Premium feature
Microsoft eCDN and event analytics
Enhance live streaming with Microsoft eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) and use real-time insights to ensure the event runs smoothly.
Follow up after an event
Attendee reporting
Analyze and assess attendee participation with detailed reporting.
On-demand recording
Publish and share an on-demand recording of your event for easier access and viewing.
COMPARE PLANS
Get the full power of town hall
See how your organization can level up the town hall experience with Teams Premium.
| Features | Features included with Teams Enterprise (a base enterprise license) | Features included with Teams Premium (requires a base enterprise license) 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Audience capacity | Up to 10,000 attendees | Up to 20,000 attendees |
| Concurrent events[popover:] | Up to 15 events | Up to 50 events |
| Customizable and automated communications | Automated invitations; and event recording emails | Customization of town hall email communications |
| On-demand recording | | |
| Attendee reporting | | |
| Green room | | |
| Manage what attendees see; RTMP-in | | |
| eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) integration | Microsoft eCDN and third-party eCDN supported | Microsoft eCDN included; Third-party eCDN supported |
| Real-time event analytics | | |
| Moderated Q&A, and live translation for captions | Q&A support for up to 10,000 attendees; and up to 6 languages for live-translated captions | Q&A support for up to 20,000 attendees; and up to 10 languages for live-translated captions |
PRICING
Get started with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
For new enterprise customers to get started with Microsoft Teams.
$5.25
user/month
(Annual subscription—auto renews)3
For new enterprise customers to get started with Microsoft Teams.
(Annual subscription—auto renews)3
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- Help your team communicate and work together effectively while driving business growth.
- Town hall in Teams
- Unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours
- 10 GB of cloud storage per user
- Anytime phone and web support
- Unlimited chat with coworkers and customers
- File sharing, tasks, and polling
- Data encryption for meetings, chat, calls, and file
Microsoft Teams Premium Introductory Pricing
For existing customers with an enterprise subscription that includes Teams.1
$7.00
user/month
For existing customers with an enterprise subscription that includes Teams.1
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- Add advanced capabilities in Teams to boost productivity, security, engagement, and connection.
- Includes everything in your existing enterprise plan, plus:
- The full power of town hall in Teams
- Built-in AI generated notes, action items, and live translations
- Watermarking and end-to-end encryption for advanced protection
- IT managed meeting templates and controls
- Branded invitations and join pages
- Custom backgrounds, colors and together mode scenes
- Real-time meeting quality telemetry
- Post-event engagement analytics
- Personalized business-to-customer engagements
- Advanced webinars with custom presenter and attendee experiences
- Custom 3D immersive experiences in Microsoft Mesh
Try Teams Premium for free for 30 days.
DOWNLOAD TEAMS
Nail your next town hall
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RESOURCES
Implementation and support
GETTING STARTED
Learn how to get started with town hall in Microsoft Teams
ADOPTION
Find resources to help your organization use town hall
SUPPORT
Get technical support from Microsoft’s Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP)
EXPLORE MORE
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Turn any space into a smart meeting room, where everyone can fully collaborate.
Teams Devices
Enable meetings and calling with high-quality and familiar audio and video experiences.
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Streamline meeting recaps, notes, and more with AI assistance in Teams.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Town hall features in Microsoft Teams enable a new experience to host and deliver large-scale events to create connections inside and outside of an organization. Town halls will provide a one-to-many format with advanced production capabilities and a structured approach for attendee engagement.
- An enterprise subscription to Teams or Microsoft 365 or Office 365 that includes a Teams license can use town hall features. However, to use advanced town hall features and capabilities, the organizer must add a Teams Premium license to an existing enterprise subscription.
- With Teams Premium, customers get everything included in the base enterprise license plus up to 20,000 attendees, up to 50 concurrent events across a tenant, customization of email communications, Microsoft eCDN included, third-party eCDN supported, and organizers can select up to 10 languages for live translated captions.
- For more information on how to get started with town hall in Teams, choose from the following resource links:
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- [1] Advanced town hall features are available with a Teams Premium license. An active subscription to a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 or Teams enterprise plan that has a Teams license is required.
- [2] Introductory pricing is available for the entire term of your initial subscription (except for some month-to-month and some three-year subscriptions). Pricing may depend on the term of your subscription. This offer ends June 30, 2024, and is available worldwide to commercial (including worldwide commercial public sector), nonprofit (standard discounting applies), and Government Cloud Community (GCC) organizations (GCC feature availability may vary). The offer may not be combined with any other offer. Microsoft reserves the right to cancel, change, or suspend this introductory pricing at any time without notice. Listed pricing may vary due to currency, country, and regional variant factors. Your actual price will be reflected at checkout. Contact your Microsoft sales representative to learn more.
- [3] Once your paid subscription begins, cancellation policies vary based on your status as a new customer, product, and domain selections on Microsoft. Learn more. Cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription any time by going to the Microsoft 365 admin center. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365.
- [4] Your free trial of 25 licenses will automatically end after 30 days.



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