Set up and attend live events

Produce a live event

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Before you go live, let's get everything set up with your Teams live event. The producer’s screen has three areas. What’s live is on the right side. On the left, the Queue shows you what’s next, and the bottom tray has all content you can share. Highlight bottom tray

  1. Select Calendar Meetings button, select the live event, and Join.

    Note: You can only join as a producer if you're the organizer or have been assigned this role.

  2. To share your desktop or a window, select Share and add the content you'd like to share.

  3. Select what content you want your audience to see from at the bottom of the screen to preview it in your queue (on the left) before sending it to what's live (on the right).

  4. Select Send live to move a feed from the preview queue to live.

  5. Select Start to start broadcasting.

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