Setting allow external presenters on Live Events programmatically

Question

We are trying to automate the create of Live Events.

We have everything so far, but there is one issue we want to solve. We need the ability to set the Allow External Presenters setting like you can in the Teams UX.

We are setting the allowPresenters property to Everyone.. Not 100% sure that is even what that property does.

"subject": "Live Event Auto Test 10",
"startDateTime": "2022-02-15T00:00:00Z",
"endDateTime": "2022-02-15T01:00:00Z",
"isBroadcast": true,
"broadcastSettings": {
    "allowedAudience": "everyone",
    "captions": {
        "isCaptionEnabled": false
    },
    "isRecordingEnabled": true,
    "isAttendeeReportEnabled": true,
    "isQuestionAndAnswerEnabled": true,
    "isVideoOnDemandEnabled": true
},
"allowAttendeeToEnableCamera": true,
"allowAttendeeToEnableMic": true,
"allowMeetingChat": "enabled",
"allowTeamworkReactions": true,
"isEntryExitAnnounced": false,
"lobbyBypassSettings": {
    "scope": "everyone",
    "isDialInBypassEnabled": true
},
"recordAutomatically": true,
**"allowedPresenters": "everyone",**

When the meeting is created it is always set to organization.

"allowedPresenters": "organization",

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi @michael@opsgility.com ,

External users directly can't be made as presenters without inviting them as Guests into the organization.

**Refer to documentation **plan-for-teams-live-events
For a guest to present in a live event, do the following tasks:

• Add the user as a guest to a team.
• Have the user accept the guest invitation and join the team.
• Schedule the live event and add the guest to your event group.

Hope this helps.
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Answer 2

You can..

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/allow-anonymous-presenters-in-a-live-meeting-af38c662-e9b3-4b7c-bfee-073c4a6147a3

Answer 3

Not sure if this reply was a mistake or not since it's not addressing my previous post about the fully functional "Allow external presenters" button that I showed in the screenshot and referenced in the documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/allow-anonymous-presenters-in-a-live-meeting-af38c662-e9b3-4b7c-bfee-073c4a6147a3

Can you clarify what those features are for if not to allow external attendees in as presenters? Note: We use this all the time and it works great.

Answer 4

How can I set this programmatically? I need to set this property on the live event when I create it using the Graph API.