Add up to 10 co-organizers to help manage your meeting. Co-organizers are shown as organizers in the meeting participant list. Their permissions are very similar to those of a meeting organizer. 

Co-organizer permissions

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

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

  • Co-organizers must be invited to a channel meeting to change its meeting options. 

  • External participants can't be made co-organizers.

  • Co-organizers must be from the same org as the meeting organizer to manage breakout rooms.

Add co-organizers to a meeting

To add co-organizers to a meeting you've scheduled:

  1. Open a meeting in your Teams calendar.

  2. Make sure the people you want to add as co-organizers are added as required attendees.

  3. Select Meeting options.

  4. Select Roles People or Show Participants button.

  5. In Choose co-organizers, select their names from the dropdown menu.

  6. Select Save.

Co-organizers must be in the same org as the meeting organizer. They can also use a guest account in the same org.

Want to learn more? See Overview of meetings in Teams.

Related topics

Schedule a meeting in Teams

Invite people to a meeting in Teams

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