Teams Meetings - Roles and Capabilities

Tags Teams Roles

Problem

Understanding the Roles and Capabilities for people participating in a Teams Meeting.

Environment

USJ Faculty, Staff and Students

Resolution

Presenters can do just about anything that needs doing in a meeting. Attendees have limitations on the actions they can initiate within the meeting, including the following:
- Present
- Mute All
- Remove/Add Users
- Admit Users from Lobby
- Start/Stop Recording

For more info, please see the documentation below:

Below are the specific capabilities of each role:

Capability

Organizer

Presenter

Attendee

Speak and share video

  X

  X

  X

Participate in meeting chat

  X

  X

  X

Share content

  X

  X

 

Privately view a PowerPoint file shared by someone else

  X

  X

  X

Take control of someone else's PowerPoint presentation

  X

  X

 

Mute other participants

  X

  X

 

Remove participants

  X

  X

 

Admit people from the lobby

  X

  X

 

Change the roles of other participants

  X

  X

 

Start or stop recording

  X

  X

 

Link from Microsoft:  Roles in a Teams meeting

Cause

NA