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This article will guide you through the process of:

  • Enabling HIVE for Teams live events (via your Microsoft 365 tenant)

Before you Begin

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Please refer to your

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Welcome email for the Hive License key

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If you have not received one, please submit a Support Request via the Hive Support Center

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OPTION 1: Enabling HIVE for Teams

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Live Events with Teams Admin Center

Your company Office 365 Tenant administrator must execute

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the following steps in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center

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You have to be signed in with an account with authorized administrator access.

  1. Select Meetings > Live events

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  1. settings 

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  1. Click toggle key to turn

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  1. ON the "Use a third party distribution provider" Option.

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  1. Select Hive from the "SDN provider name" drop-down

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  1. menu.

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  1. Input the Hive License key

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  1. you were provided in the

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  1. "Provider license key" field

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  2. Input the following text in the "SDN API template URL” field: https://api.hivestreaming.com/v1/eventadmin?partner_token={0}

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overview:

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  1. Click

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  1. Save

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OPTION 2: Enabling HIVE for Teams

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Live Events via PowerShell command

Your company

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Microsoft 365 Tenant administrator must execute the Microsoft PowerShell

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command: Set-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration

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If you have already activated Teams

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Live Events, and only need to enable HIVE

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, use this PowerShell command or cmdlet, replacing the highlighted section with the HIVE for Microsoft License key provided via e-mail:

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Set-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration -SupportURL

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-AllowSdnProviderForBroadcastMeeting $True -SdnProviderName hive -SdnLicenseId <replace with Hive License Key> -SdnApiTemplateUrl 'https://api.hivestreaming.com/v1/eventadmin?partner_token={0}'

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For more information on the Set-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration cmdlet, please refer to the Microsoft documentation.

Verifying the Configuration

You can verify your Teams configuration

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, including the Hive Streaming configuration

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, with the cmdlet: Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration

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Use this command:

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Get-

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CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration *

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Previously

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one

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would

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use

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the

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below

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command,

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but

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Microsoft

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has

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recently

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changed

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the

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parameter:

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Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration

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-ExposeSDNConfigurationJsonBlob

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$true

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For more information about the Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration cmdlet

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, please refer to the Microsoft documentation.

Important information when enabling Hive for the first time

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It can take up to 24 hours for configuration changes to be fully propagated across the system

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Execute these cmdlets well before you plan on running your first

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Hive enabled Teams

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Live Event.

Note

Events configured before executing the cmdlet or the UI will NOT

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be Hive enabled.

Any previously created events would need to be deleted and re-created if they need to use Hive.

Note

Teams Live Events

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has an option of using Microsoft Stream when running external encoders.

If you plan on using an

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What's Next

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external encoder this way for a Hive enabled event, you will need to enable Hive for Microsoft Stream before hand.