M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Webinar creation and registration Graph APIs

MC801262 – Updated June 28, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams Webinars is introducing a new set of Graph APIs that support business-to-business workflows. These new Webinar Graph APIs will help organizations programmatically do the following:

• Get, create, update, publish, and cancel webinars.
• Register attendees to an existing webinar using Graph APIs.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 398448

When will this happen:

Targeted Public Beta: Microsoft expects to complete by late June 2024.

General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out early August 2024 (previously early July) and expects to complete by mid-August 2024 (previously late July).

How this will affect your organization:

These APIs will equip your organization to create/update/delete Teams webinars and register attendees programmatically using other applications in your ecosystem. 

For more information, visit:

• Create virtualEventWebinar – Microsoft Graph beta | Microsoft Learn
• Virtual event resource type – Microsoft Graph beta | Microsoft Learn
• Get change notifications for Microsoft Teams virtual event updates – Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn
• virtualEventWebinarRegistrationConfiguration resource type
  

This new feature is available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.