Allow broadcast production in Teams meetings with NDI and SDI hardware
Teams offers two options for broadcasting Teams meeting content: Network Device Interface(NewTek NDI®) and Serial Digital Interface (SDI):
NewTek NDI® is a modern solution for connecting multiple media devices, such as studio cameras and mixers, without physical connections. Instead, NDI® technology enables connectivity over a local intranet, including on a local machine. This technology is a widely adopted industry standard for producing live content for streams, with significant awareness and adoption in the professional broadcast world.
SDI, known for its reliable long-distance transmission, is a widely used technology for sending video through cables. It's a goto choice in professional broadcasting because it carries uncompressed, high-quality video along with audio and other data. Hardware devices from AJA Video Systems and Blackmagic Design provide connectivity to legacy broadcast devices that use SDI.
NDI® and SDI technology is supported in all locales.
As an admin, you can allow your users to use NDI® and SDI for broadcast production in their meetings. For the most secure solution, don't enable this policy as a global setting.
1. Enable the broadcast production policy
To enable NDI® and SDI broadcast features for a user, you can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell.
Enable broadcast production in the Teams admin center
- Open the Teams admin center.
- Expand Meetings from the navigation pane.
- Under Meetings, select Meeting Policies.
- Either select an existing policy or create a new one.
- Navigate to the Audio & video section.
- Toggle Broadcast production with NDI and SDI hardware to On.
- Select Save
Enable broadcast production in PowerShell
You can use the -ContentSharingInExternalMeetings
parameter in the CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet to enable broadcast production for your users.
To allow users with this policy to use broadcast production, use the following script:
Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowNDIStreaming $true
2. Instruct your users to turn on production capabilities
Users with an enabled Broadcast production with NDI and SDI hardware policy must turn on Production capabilities from Settings > App Permissions in their specific client. For details on how your user can turn on production capabilities, see Broadcasting audio and video from Teams.