(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Events templates with "Optimize for large audience" and policy-based behavior

🚨 The Signal: Teams Events now offer an 'Optimize for large audience' option, enabling events over 1,000 attendees. This feature respects existing CsTeamsEventsPolicy, ensuring policy enforcement for large-scale virtual gatherings.

The Impact

Teams admins and event organizers are affected, with a low security risk as existing policies remain enforced.

• Teams admins: Ensure CsTeamsEventsPolicy is correctly configured for large events.
• Event organizers: Understand the 'Optimize for large audience' setting and its implications.
• Attendees: Experience optimized large-scale events, potentially with different interaction options.

The Action

1. Review current CsTeamsEventsPolicy settings via Teams Admin Center > Meetings > Event policies or PowerShell.
2. Communicate the new 'Optimize for large audience' option to event organizers.
3. Verify that existing policies adequately cover large-scale event scenarios.

Domain: Teams · Impact: low · Workload: Teams