Manage email communications for events

APPLIES TO: ✖️Meetings ✔️Webinars ✔️Town halls

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Overview

With a Teams Premium license, you can decide whether event organizers and coorganizers can edit email templates for their webinars and town halls. With email templates, organizers and co-organizers can manage waitlists, remind attendees about webinars they registered for, and provide clear instructions for attendees before, during, and after the event.

Your webinar organizers and co-organizers can edit the following email communication templates:

  • Attendee cancellation
  • Attendee pending approval
  • Attendee registration
  • Attendee rejection
  • Attendee waitlisting
  • Event recording available
  • Webinar cancellation
  • Webinar date time update
  • Webinar reminder

For more information on the webinar email communications experience for your users, see Manage webinar emails in Microsoft Teams.

Your town hall organizers and co-organizers can edit the following email communication templates:

  • Event invitation
  • Event recording available

For more information on the town hall email communications experience for your users, see Schedule a town hall in Microsoft Teams.

Manage email communications for webinars and town halls

Teams admin center policy option Parameter value in PowerShell Behavior
On Enabled This is the default value. Organizers and co-organizers can edit all email templates for their webinars and town halls.
Off Disabled Organizers and co-organizers can’t edit any email templates for their webinars and town halls.

Manage email communications in the Teams admin center

You can use the Teams admin center to manage whether organizers and co-organizers can edit email templates for their webinars and town halls.

Follow these steps in the Teams admin center to manage the email communications for webinars and town halls:

  1. Open the Teams admin center.
  2. Expand Meetings from the navigation pane.
  3. Under Meetings, select Events Policies.
  4. Either select an existing policy or create a new one.
  5. Toggle the Customize event emails setting On or Off.
  6. Select Save

Manage email communications through PowerShell

Through PowerShell, you can manage whether organizers and co-organizers can edit email templates for their webinars and town halls. The -AllowEmailEditing parameter in the CsTeamsEventsPolicy cmdlet controls whether your users can edit email communication templates.

The following example turns off -AllowEmailEditing so organizers and co-organizers can’t edit any email templates:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowEmailEditing Disabled

To learn more about -AllowEmailEditing, see the following cmdlet topics: