How do I enable HIVE for Microsoft Townhall?

This article will guide you through the process of enabling HIVE for Microsoft Townhall (via your Microsoft 365 tenant)

Scenario A: Your organization is not using Teams Premium license

If Hive is already enabled for Teams Live Events, then there is no additional setup required, as the setup done for TLE will be used to enable Hive for Microsoft Townhall.

Otherwise, you need to follow the same setup as is done for enabling Hive for Teams Live Events. Please refer to the following page for details:https://hivestreaming.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HKB/pages/810222499

Scenario B: Your organization is using a Teams Premium license for organizers of Townhall events.

There is no impact on enabling Teams Live Event with Hive, irrespective of the Teams license being used.

As the Microsoft eCDN solution is the default option for Townhall organizers with a Teams Premium license, you would need to make the below changes to disable Microsoft eCDN and use Hive as the default option.

You would still need to enable Hive following the setup mentioned here:https://hivestreaming.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HKB/pages/810222499

These changes must be applied to the organizer of the town hall event for Hive to be enabled. There is no impact on whether any of the viewers have the flag enabled or disabled.

Using the Teams admin center

Follow these steps to use the Teams admin center to disable Microsoft eCDN for organizers with a premium license for Townhall:

Open the Teams admin center.
Expand Meetings from the navigation pane.
Under Meetings, select Events Policies.
Either select an existing policy (preferably the global policy) or create a new one.
Toggle the Use Microsoft eCDN setting to Off.
Select Save.

Using PowerShell

To disable Microsoft eCDN for Premium town halls, use the -UseMicrosoftECDN parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsEventsPolicy by using the following script:
Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -UseMicrosoftECDN Disabled