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How to Assign the Co-Organizer Role to Microsoft Teams Meetings
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new co-organizer role for meetings. The role allows people to share the workload involved in managing complex meetings, like webinars. The role is optional and li...
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
I understand, but that doesn't take away from the issue that Teams doesn't support the rich array of delegate permissions which are available in Outlook, or that a meeting involves more resources than Outlook (the meeting space, attendance report, recordings, and so on), stored in different repositories with different permission models. Hence my remark that you can't take what works in Outlook and expect it to work in Teams. What you can do is work with Teams to leverage the way the software works. For instance, you could create a user account and use it to perform all the shared scheduling. Give access to that account to those who need to schedule and manage meetings. They'll need to sign into the account to perform this work, but it will work. It's just that you can't use a shared account.
That is understandable. And in no way will the full model of outlook be available right away. But from the user perspective for a webinar there seem to be a few features missing leading up to the moment of the webinar. And yes we can use a workaround and use a new shared usage licensed account, but that will cause other problems with MFA. Where there for example is only a maximum number of MFA options available per account.
- I'm not pretending that the suggestion is imperfect, but you can only work within the capabilities of the software... Lobby Microsoft for improvements in this area and they might listen. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/ad198462-1c1c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472
- True and I was hoping a bit someone had a suggestion I didn't think about yet. Thanks for the help though 🙂