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How to Assign the Co-Organizer Role to Microsoft Teams Meetings
Rae_Jay Hello, these are the details of the co-org role.
Co-organizers can do the following:
- Access and change meeting options
- Bypass the lobby
- Admit people from the lobby during a meeting
- Lock the meeting
- Present content
- Change another participant’s meeting role
- End the meeting for all
- Create & manage breakout rooms
To make co-organizers breakout room managers, you must first assign them the breakout room manager role.
Co-organizers cannot do the following:
Create & manage breakout rooms(updated, see above)- View & download attendance reports
- Manage the meeting recording
- Edit the meeting invitation
- Remove or change the Organizer role
TonyRedmond It's not a problem that a meeting needs to have one owner. It's a problem that we can't assign permissions that are equal to the owner role to someone else. The owner can work part time, the owner can get sick or temporary unavailable. All valid scenario's for which you want to have a proper backup organizer.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/roles-in-a-teams-meeting-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e
- That is during the meeting, most of things needed are covered with the co-org role. What is lacking are options before the meeting. Especially with a webinar and shared responsibility or the owner not being there all the time.
- I heard the following today from a Product Manager for the Co-Organizer role:
"I wanted to provide an answer to your question: Yes, Co-organizers will be able to access and modify meeting options before, during, or even after the meeting -- just like the Organizer can."m36five: I hope he's correct, that would be a great addition to Teams. Had troubles with it last week actually. Event organizer wasn't in on the day of the event, an due to a small timing mistake the ones presenting couldn't start the event earlier. Had to reset her password eventually to make things work. So really looking forward to this feature.
- The very idea of these available options is to set them up before the meeting, so of course they can be predefined.
- I am not seeing the co-organizer option despite having the Public Preview (Or Developer Preview) enabled on my Teams. Am I missing something?
