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SumithraK
Copper Contributor
Aug 27, 2026

Feature Title: Ability to Transfer Ownership of a Recurring Meeting Series

Problem/Use Case: When a meeting organizer creates a recurring meeting series and later moves to a different team, role, or leaves the organization, there is currently no way to transfer ownership of that meeting series to another person. This creates several issues:

 

The meeting series may need to be cancelled and recreated from scratch, causing stakeholders to lose the original meeting history, chat thread, shared files, and notes tied to that series.

All previously invited stakeholders and the meeting's context/topic history become fragmented or lost.

The new owner has to manually recreate invites, re-add all attendees, and re-link any associated channels or files.

Requested Feature: Allow the original organizer (or an admin) to reassign/transfer ownership of an existing recurring meeting series to another user, while preserving:

 

The full list of existing stakeholders/attendees

The meeting's chat history, shared files, and notes

The recurrence pattern, time slot, and associated channel (if applicable)

Any linked agenda items or topics tied to past occurrences

Suggested Implementation:

 

Add a "Transfer Ownership" option within the meeting series settings (similar to file/document ownership transfer in SharePoint/OneDrive)

Notify the new owner and all attendees when ownership changes, so context isn't lost

Ensure calendar entries update automatically for all invitees without requiring them to accept a new invite

Business Impact: This would reduce disruption during team transitions, org changes, or role handovers, and ensure continuity of important recurring discussions without manual recreation of meetings or loss of historical context.

 

1 Reply

  • Hello,

    A part of your scenario is covered by Exchange Online.

    Microsoft now provides the Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer cmdlet, which allows administrators to transfer ownership of an existing meeting or recurring meeting series to another organizer without recreating the series.

    Example:

    Connect-ExchangeOnline Invoke-ChangeMeetingOrganizer 

    -Identity email address removed for privacy reasons 

    -Subject "Weekly Status Sync" 

    -NewOrganizer mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons

    This preserves the recurring series and automatically updates internal attendees without requiring them to accept a new invitation.

    However, it does not fully address the broader Teams continuity scenario described in this request.

    Meeting chat history, Teams meeting ownership, recordings, OneDrive-based files, permissions, and other meeting assets are not automatically transferred.

    Microsoft also notes that Teams meeting information may need to be regenerated by the new organizer.

    So while calendar ownership transfer is now available, there is still a gap around preserving the complete Teams collaboration context when ownership changes.

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