You can join Microsoft Teams Events as a presenter from your Webex device with Cisco Webex Video Integration for Microsoft Teams (VIMT).

Once connected, the experience will differ if you are a trusted participant for the organization that is hosting the meeting, or an untrusted participant.

  • Trusted participants: Trusted participants connect immediately to the event group as a presenter without Producer approval. Once joined to the event group, the participant will be live with the rest of the presenters in the event group as if they were in a regular Microsoft Teams meeting. If the Live Event has started, you will be joining with audio. You can mute directly on your device. Anyone who has the Video Conference join information for the Event Group will be able to join the Event Group, and potentially Live broadcast.

  • Untrusted participants: All participants connecting through VIMT that are not trusted when joining a Live Events Event Group are waiting in the lobby until admitted by a Producer in via the Microsoft Teams client. Producers already connected to the meeting will see the participant as Waiting in the Lobby notification in the meeting’s participant list. Once the untrusted participant is admitted from the lobby to the Event Group, they are in the Event Group, but not yet a Presenter. Using the Teams client, a producer can promote the participant to a Presenter using the Make a Presenter option in the participant list.

When Presenting from Webex Devices

VIMT connected participants have a different experience compared to Presenters using the Microsoft Teams client. Notable differences include:

  • No Chat or Q&A Windows

  • No Live video indicator for which participant is live

  • No Live Event status (attendee count, timer, live state)

  • No Presenter/Producer labels in the Roster List

Presenters connecting through VIMT do not directly see the broadcast video controlled by the producer that is sent to all attendees. The audio and video seen by a VIMT participant is the active speaker video device layouts seen in a traditional VIMT meeting. The audio they hear as part of the Event Group is the same as sent to attendees, but the video displayed will not include the outgoing video broadcast attendees see.

Presenters should be aware whatever audio they send to the Event Group meeting will be heard by attendees once the broadcast has started. Prior to the broadcast being started by the producer, attendees do not hear or see the Event Group participants.