Can I schedule a Webinar without requiring registration?

Hi Michael,

We had similar issue where we wanted a "Webinar" without registration.

We manage to find a "workaround".

1. Create Webinar as usual (MS Teams app, calendar, down arrow, webinar). Date = future date, Attendee="public". Click on "Publish")
2. MS Teams, will give you "Share Link" for you to share, which will go to registration page. Ignore this.
3. Instead, join the webinar straight away.
   You probably want to stop recording straight away.
   Go to "People" tab > "Share Invite" > Copy Meeting Link
4. The URL you get can be shared/copy-and-paste in your meeting invite.
   Participant will be able to join via MS Teams app (as logged-in user) Or user MS Team web client and enter a nick-name.
   (No registration required).
5. Quit the meeting.

This worked for us. Host of webinar has Microsoft 365 e3.
For us, we also kept details of the webinar intentionally vague. As we don't want anyone to register through event page.

create a public webinar, and don't publish registration website.

Then get the meeting link (From the meeting itself not from calendar) and share it with everyone.

I went through this, and this was a working way to do this.

This is actually incorrect: "If you want to use webinars, meeting registration must be turned on."

reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/set-up-webinars#configure-meeting-registration

Hi Michael, I feel your pain. Would this solve your problem?

When setting up the webinar, set the Who can bypass the lobby setting to Only people I invite.

(I assume you are inviting the speakers separately and everyone else joins using the meeting link.)

While you are preparing to begin, all attendees except the invited speakers will stay in the lobby. (You can even let in the speakers from the lobby separately if they can't otherwise get in.)

When you are ready to begin, go into meeting settings and change the Who can bypass the lobby setting to Anyone.

You may have to manually let in the folks currently in the waiting room, but all future attendees will be let in automatically.

See screenshot for a description of this setting. Seems to fit the bill here?

Hi Michael,

I understand that you want to schedule a webinar without requiring the users to register. The "For everyone" option and "anonymous join" functionality should be enabled in the organization-wide policy setting. You'll have to coordinate with your IT administrators to discuss if this setting can be enabled in your organization.

Here are the complete articles for your reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeam...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteam...