Add co-organizers to a meeting in Microsoft Teams

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

Notes:

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:

Open a meeting in your Teams calendar.
Make sure the people you want to add as co-organizers are added as required attendees.
Select Meeting options.
Select Roles .
In Choose co-organizers, select their names from the dropdown menu.
Select Save.

Note: 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.

Add co-organizers to a meeting in Microsoft Teams

Co-organizer permissions

Add co-organizers to a meeting

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