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In public preview: Meeting co-organizer
- Mar 10, 2022
Currently, the co-organizer feature doesn't support breakout rooms. Here is a temporary workaround for adding your Co-Organzier as a Breakout Room Manager, until it's fully supported:
BEFORE A MEETING
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Organizer creates meeting
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Organizer opens the meeting on their Teams calendar & adds Breakout Rooms (BR) to it
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BRs shows up as a new tab along with other apps added to the meeting
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Organizer then uses BR app's settings to assign a person invited to the meeting as a BR manager
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Organizer opens meeting options and assigns meeting co-organizer role to that same person
DURING MEETING
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Imagine that organizer is out of office that day (like in a substitute teacher scenario)
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The co-organizer joins the meeting & they have all the capabilities of co-organizer role
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The co-organizer starts the BR in the meeting
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When co-organizer joins the BR, they no longer have the co-organizer role but since that person was assigned as a BR manager, they can manage the BR with all capabilities of a BR manager (their role essentially changed from "co-organizer" to "BR manager")
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Once BR session is over, BR manager & other attendees will leave the BR and rejoin the main meeting
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When they rejoin the main meeting, everyone is automatically assigned their original meeting roles for the main meeting
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So, the original co-organizer who filled the BR manager role during the breakout room session automatically becomes a co-organizer in the main meeting once again
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We're not seeing the Co-organizer option either despite jumping through all the hoops. Specifically (using the latest Edge browser), we have:
- enabled Public Preview in the Teams Update Policies
- ensured the policy is applied to several users
- selected Public Preview in Teams for several users (under "...", About) and agreed to join the Public Preview
- verified that Public Preview is checked (under "...", About) for those users
- had one user create (and send) a new meeting with a required attendee who is part of the same tenant (and who has also opted into Public Preview)
When the meeting organizer then clicks "Meeting options," there is no Co-organizer option available.
What are we doing wrong?
finally they update, feature release delayed
and agree with carolyn910, this is actually co-sub-orgnizer, not what whey called "co-org"
in my opnion, it should be "take owner", co-organizer may lead to chaos
if we have a 1000 ppl meeting, somehow organizer can't attend/leave the company, we should we do?
we want take over, is crazy to cancel/create meeting