Meetings

Overview

A standard Meeting in Teams enables real‑time collaboration among groups of people. You can start an instant Meeting or schedule a future Meeting using Outlook or the Teams calendar.

You can schedule a Meeting to last up to 30 hours, with participant limits of 300 for Teams Essentials and the Microsoft 365 Business plans, and 1,000 for Teams Enterprise and the Office 365/Microsoft 365 Enterprise licenses. Up to 10,000 attendees can join with a view-only experience.

Licensing

Meeting organizers need to be licensed. Microsoft’s websites confirm that Meetings are included in Teams Essentials and Teams Enterprise licenses, and the Modern Work Plan Comparison documents confirm that users can organize a Meeting if they’re licensed with any of the Office 365/Microsoft 365 plans aimed at SMB or Enterprise users. There are no licensing or Teams account requirements for Meeting attendees.

When you set up a Meeting you typically send a meeting request which includes a link to join the Meeting via the Teams app. If you want people to be able to join a Meeting from a traditional telephone then you need to provide a dial-in number, and this is facilitated by the Audio Conferencing license.