Northwestern IT supports Teams and Zoom conferencing for effective collaboration among members of the University as well as external colleagues.
With both product's service offerings near parity, your choice may be influenced by familiarity with each product. However, there are some differences to be aware of. Please refer to the table below as a guide to feature differences.
To request a consultation for your particular conferencing needs, contact the IT Support Center, or your school or department technical support representative.
| |
Teams |
Zoom |
| Meeting Attendees |
Up to 10001 |
Up to 3002 |
| HIPAA Compliant |
Yes |
No3 |
| Audio Conferencing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Webinars |
Up to 10004 |
Yes5 |
| Meeting Recordings (storage retention)6 |
120 days |
180 days |
| Meeting Recordings (storage location) |
1:1/Ad-hoc/Scheduled Meetings - OneDrive
Teams Channel Meetings - backend SharePoint site of team
|
Zoom Cloud |
| Breakout Rooms |
Up to 507 |
Up to 508 |
| Network Device Interface (NDI)9 |
Enabled (upon request) |
Not Enabled |
| Microsoft 365 Integration |
Natively |
Outlook Plug-in |
1 - Faculty, staff and students can host meetings up to 1000 fully interactive participants. Meetings that exceed 1000 attendees (up to 10000) have view-only capabilities.
2 - Faculty and staff can host unlimited minute Zoom meetings up to 300 attendees. Over 300 attendees require provisioning of a separate Large Meeting license (500 or 1000 attendee limits can be purchased by faculty/staff). Student host accounts are limited to 40 minute meetings with up to 300 participants.
3 - HIPAA compliance is available for individual accounts by request.
4 - Webinars for external attendee registration available upon request.
5 - A limited number of high capacity webinar licenses (either 1000 or 3000) are available on a first come / first serve basis.
6 - Recordings can be downloaded to local storage prior to retention limit.
7 - Only available on Teams meetings up to 300 participants.
8 - Up to 200 users per breakout room are supported when host account is provisioned a Large Meeting license. Otherwise meeting participants capped at 300.
9 - NDI technology allows you to broadcast the audio and video streams from a meeting to your local network. When using NDI technology in a meeting, you will have unique video streams on the network that can be used in your own production.