Limit on video calling on Teams

Hi nightearth,

Thanks for reahcing us in community.

Limit for teams meetings is  250! There's now also live events which is supporting attendees up to 10 000!

You can click this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams#meetings-and-calls to know more about limitations and specifications for Microsoft Teams.

Best,

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Thank you for your swift reply, but my concern is how many participants can join video call on the same time.

I am confused since I can not find a clear sentence on this.

thank you in advance 

They're both 250. The video call keeps the same limit as Teams meeting. 

250 for a meeting. 20 for private chat. In video calls, the last 4 speakers are displayed as ‘quarters’ of the screen.

<***Updated by Shawn Deng MSFT at10:40 am, Monday, 30 March 2020, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)***>

Shawn,

For the free version of teams can you also have 250 in a video call?

The answer is NO. For the Teams for free, it keeps the same limit with Skype, it's 50.

If you still have more concern, please kindly post a new thread in community, so that we can help you better for your problem.

And I hope you and your family are in the best of health and not affected by Covid -19.

Take care :)

Shawn

Jessica,

I'm sure someone officially will reply but Teams will show the last 4 people speaking but sometimes with background noise and people jumping in and out you won't see them talk. We were trying to do a "virtual happy hour" but it was harder to play the games since we had to have folks speak and get them to show up on the screen so we leveraged the chat more.

-TD

That's an expected behaviour. The desktop client only supports up to 4 by now, and some web browsers may only display one person in a video call, like Chrome. Our D&R team is accelerating to increase the number of participants shown in the main meeting window. We don't have an exact timetable for it, but it will not take too long.

Best,

Shawn