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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, are you aware of any option for a delegate to control meeting options for someone they're scheduling meetings for? I was hoping co-organizer would do it, but it leaves the delegate in a catch-22 where they can schedule the meeting, but can't access meeting options to add themselves as a co-organizer.
Specifically, I'm thinking in the situation where an administrative assistant is a delegate for a manager. The AA can schedule meetings on behalf of the manager, but the manager is the organizer of the meeting as far as M365 is concerned. So for the AA to be able to manage the meeting options as a co-organizer, the manager would have to go into meeting options and set the AA as a co-organizer.
Or am I missing something? Exchange isn't my strong suit so there very well could be a good solution out there. I'm just surprised I couldn't find anything online given I'd think this would be a common setup, especially in large organizations.- Nope. Which is why I wrote https://office365itpros.com/2022/02/28/teams-meeting-co-organizer/
- Awesome, thanks Tony! Just a sanity check here, but am I crazy thinking that the ability for a delegate to manage meeting options for the other person should be a foundational thing that a lot of people want?
If anything, I'd almost think the organizer role should be given to the delegate. But maybe there are more use cases out there that push back on that idea.
