There is a major change coming this week for Microsoft 365 customers regarding Viva Engage. The Redmond giant announced a few months ago that Engage will retire live events powered by Teams Live Events on April 15 (tomorrow). If you had any events scheduled before this, then they will be supported until February 28, 2027, but other users will have to migrate to Engage events powered by Teams Town Hall.
For those not familiar, Microsoft Viva Engage is a social networking service for enterprises and is bundled in with other Microsoft 365 products. It was previously known as Yammer before being fully rebranded by 2023.
By transitioning to Engage powered by Teams Town Hall, Microsoft believes customers will get an improved experience for large-scale digital and hybrid events. On the standard plan, Teams Town Hall allow the same number of attendees as Teams Live Events but also allows for 3,000 interactive users. There’s also the Attendee Capacity Pack that customers can buy to expand attendees to 100,000.
So, from tomorrow, organizations will no longer have the option to schedule a live event in Engage powered by Teams Live Events. Admins should migrate events in Engage to Teams Town Hall and review and update any internal documentation that’s affected.
You can find out more about this change on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center under Message ID MC1227085.
What do you think about this change, do you think it’s good that customers now have an option to pay to enable ten times more attendance capacity? Let us know in the comments.