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How to enable Public Live Events in Microsoft Teams for selected users through PowerShell

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Microsoft announced Live Events feature in Microsoft Teams. Live Events in Teams will replace Skype Broadcast in future.

You can broadcast the live events to

By default, Public option is disabled. If Public broadcast option is enabled in Global policy in Live events policies, then everyone in your organisation can host public live events. As an administrator we might require to enable the public live event for select set of users alone. To do this,

Enabling it for select users from Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center is not user friendly, at the time of writing this blog, navigating to individual user and enable it. In this blog, let’s get it done through PowerShell.

To enable the public live event in Teams,

Now let us create a new live event policy with public enabled and grant this policy to a set of users through CSV file using PowerShell.

            #1.Connect to Teams
            Import-Module SkypeOnlineConnector
            $cred = Get-Credential
            $session = New-CsOnlineSession -Credential $cred
            Import-PSSession $session

            #2.Create new boardcast policy with public enabled
            New-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastPolicy -Identity PublicAllowed -BroadcastAttendeeVisibilityMode Everyone

            #3.Parse users from Csv file
            $csv = Import-Csv c:\users\perumal\desktop\filename.csv
            foreach($username in $csv)
            {
                #3.1.Assign the new policy to each user
                Grant-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastPolicy -Identity $username.upn -PolicyName Tag:PublicAllowed
            }

Below sample CSV file to use.

For more information in Microsoft Teams - Live event, follow the below resources. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Live-events-in-Microsoft-Teams/ba-p/214955\

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/what-are-teams-live-events
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