M365 Changelog: Teams live event producers will see a separate window experience for managing events

MC248212 – Updated May 20, 2021: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently, a Microsoft Teams live event producer manages the a live event within the primary Teams window. With this update, producers will manage a live event in a separate Teams window.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81804 
• Timing: early May; complete end of May (previously mid-May)
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Control type: user control and admin control 
• Action: review and assess by May 1

How this will affect your organization

All feature and functionalities available in the in-window user experience will be available in the new, separate window experience.

What you need to do to prepare

When this update is complete, the live event producer will always manage a live event in a new external window.

You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate. 

Learn more

• Get started with Teams live events 
• Produce a live event using Teams