Engage events: Broadcast, meetings, and async events with new and improved event engagement features

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1. 14 Apr 2026
   • Title Engage events: Broadcast, meetings, and custom events with moderated feed and anonymous posting on web and mobile → Engage events: Broadcast, meetings, and async events with new and improved event engagement features
   • Tags New feature, User impact, Admin impact → Updated message, New feature, User impact, Admin impact

   Updated April 14, 2026: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.  Introduction We’reWe're enhancing the Engage Events experienceevents experience in Engage to provide a more comprehensive and interactive platform for organizational events. This update introduces Broadcastenterprise events across web and mobile. Engage events will support broadcasts connected to Teams Town halls for large-scale producedone-to-many style events, Meetings-based Events,Meetings for more collaborative sessions powered by Teams webinar, and async events that are best for in-person or text-only discussions like ask-me-anything (AMA). A new capabilities such as moderated feedsevents landing page will unify the engagement before, during, and after events. Rollout begins late April 2026 and anonymous postingwill be enabled by default for all Engage customers. As a user, you can now create events on your storyline and as a community admin, you can create events within a community you are an admin of. Across both webstoryline and mobile. Additionally,community you can create three event types: Broadcast (powered by Teams town hall): This experience is an Events Landing Page will offerupgrade from the current community live events and offers a richer attendee engagement experience. Broadcast events are best for one to many communications where a presenter or leadership team shares information with a unifiedbroad audience at scale. Broadcasts are designed for structured delivery, clarity, and reach, with controlled interaction rather than open collaboration. Meeting: This event type combines the Teams webinar meeting experience with Engage’s event page and conversation layer. Engage meetings are best suited for attendeeslive, collaborative sessions where groups learn together, ask questions of one another, and organizersinteract in real time. Async: Use async events to conduct an event without a Teams online experience. They're best suited for an in-person event or a text-only discussion like an ask-me-anything (AMA). The new event landing page delivers new engagements features, which are fully customizable by the event organizer across all stages: Before, During,event types. These include moderated posts that require organizer approval, anonymous posting capabilities, and private replies. Engagement across the event page remains in sync before, during, and after the event across both Engage and AfterTeams. Further, the event.organizing team has advanced insights and simple update recording flow. Screenshot: Broadcast user interface: This message is associated with Roadmap ID 537280. … May 2026. How this affects your organization: Who is affected: All Engage customers using Events functionality. What will happen:Organizers can createusers. What will happen:Broadcast, meeting, and async event creation and consumption in communities and storylines becomes available. Broadcast Events for large-scale, produced experiences. Support for Meetings-based Events events are supported by Teams town hall and will be available. Organizers can moderate posted questions and conversations during events. Attendees can post questions anonymously via web and mobile.respect Teams town hall admin policies. Meeting events are supported by Teams webinars and will respect Teams webinar admin policies. A new Events Landing Page will provide a single location for event engagement before, during, and after the event.event No changes to existing workflows; these features will be enabled by default for Engage customers. The current community live events experience will continue to be available during this transition to the new community broadcast What you can do to prepare: No immediate action is required for most customers. Configure Engage Broadcast and Meetings within Engage. Review internal documentation and update helpdesk guidance if needed. Learn more: What’s …

2. 10 Apr 2026 · first version seen

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Shared roadmap ID 537280

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  MC1480869: (Updated) Microsoft 365 settings enabled by default for newly created Engage communities Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernando

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