Teams Meetings: Adding Co-organizers

Summary

This article reviews how to add co-organizers to Teams Meetings.

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Summary

After you've invited people to your meeting, you can add up to 10 Co-organizers to help manage your meeting. Co-organizers are displayed as additional organizers in the meeting participant list and have most of the capabilities of the meeting organizer. This article details how to add Co-organizers to Teams Meetings. 

 

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Co-organizer capabilities

Understand Co-organizer capabilities before you add Co-organizers to a meeting:

Co-organizers can:

Co-organizers can't:

Access and change meeting options

Manage the meeting recording

Manage breakout rooms

Remove or change the meeting organizer's role

Bypass the lobby

Edit invitation info and send updated invites to attendees

Admit people from the lobby during a meeting

 

Lock the meeting

 

Present content

 

Change another participant’s meeting role

 

Change meeting options during a channel meeting*

 

End meeting for all

 

 

How-To

Task: To add a Co-organizer in Teams Meetings

Instructions

Teams Application 

Outlook

Teams Application Instructions 

Step 1 -  Go to the Calendar and click +New to add a meeting make sure Teams Meeting is slid to on

Step 2 -  You should see the Meeting Options button next to the Teams Meetings slider click on Meeting Options

Step 3 - On the meeting options page, choose Roles and then Choose co-organizers, type a name in to add them to the meeting, or use the down arrow and choose the name of the additional co-organizer(s) if they were already added to the meeting invite.

meeting options

 

Step 4 - Select Apply at the bottom of your screen.

Outlook Instructions 

Step 1 -  With Outlook after scheduling and adding Meeting attendees, go back to your calendar and select your meeting scroll down to the body and then choose Meeting Options.

Note:  If using Outlook, make sure the people you want to add are already required attendees then follow the steps below:

Step 3 - On the meeting options page, choose Roles   and then Choose co-organizers, select the down arrow and choose the name of the additional co-organizer(s).

 

meeting options

 

Step 4 - Select Save at the bottom of your screen.

Important Notes:

  • To allow co-organizers to change meeting options in a channel meeting, they must be directly invited to the channel meeting invitation.

  • Non-USNH users can't be made co-organizers. 

  • To allow co-organizers to manage breakout rooms, they must be from the same organization as the meeting organizer.

 

Outcome

You will be able to add co-organizers to Teams Meetings. 

 

Further Readings 

Microsoft Support - Add co-organizers to a meeting in Microsoft Teams 

 

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Article ID: 4871
Created
Sun 2/25/24 11:49 PM
Modified
Wed 1/14/26 11:16 AM
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