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Customer On-boarding" email for the Hive License key or contact your Hive Streaming Solutions Engineer.

OPTION 1: Enabling HIVE for Teams Live Events via Teams Admin Center

Your company Office 365 Tenant administrator must execute the these steps in your the Microsoft Teams Admin Center UI(https://admin.teams.microsoft.com). Make sure you are logged in with a profile with administrator rights.

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Click toggle key to turn on the "Use a third party distribution provider" Option

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Select Hive from the "SDN provider name" drop-down menu 

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Capture the Hive License key sent in the welcome letter, or by request, in the "Provider license key" field

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

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Click "Save" 

Your company Skype for Business or Office Microsoft 365 Tenant administrator must execute the Microsoft PowerShell command Set-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration.

If you have already activated Teams live events - and only need to enable HIVE - use this PowerShell command or cmdlet, replacing the highlighted section with the HIVE for Microsoft License key provided via e-mail:

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

Verifying the Configuration

You can verify your Teams configuration – including the Hive Streaming configuration – with the cmdlet Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration:

Use this command:

Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration 

* Previously one would use the below command, but Microsoft has recently changed the parameter:

* Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration -ExposeSDNConfigurationJsonBlob $true

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More information about the Get-CsTeamsMeetingBroadcastConfiguration cmdlet may be found here.  New to PowerShell?  Try our PowerShell tips here.

Live Events that rely on external encoders also rely on Microsoft Stream.

Therefore, if you plan on using an encoder with Microsoft Teams live events (and HIVE), you should proceed with the process to enable HIVE for Microsoft Stream

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