How to use MS teams Co-organiser feature early (the work-around is better than the planned feature)

Given that Microsoft is being particularly slow with this feature, I thought I would explain a great work around to avoid meetings getting stuck in limbo when staff are off. 

Since November a co-organiser feature has been touted by Microsoft for its teams application however is didn't come in January or February as expected. It's mid March now and I think its only been released to early access. The co-organiser will have limited abilities regarding the meeting times and invite, my workaround does not have these limitations; 

Simply if you want a teams meeting to be sent from a shared inbox, you can create the meeting on your teams client and only invite the shared inbox. Probably best to name it and pick a suitable time.


Once this has arrived in the shared inbox, create a new meeting (normal outlook meeting) from the shared inbox to everyone required on the teams meeting

Then copy the location from the original teams invite to this "outlook" meeting.

To make this all work, then copy the rest of the message text across from the invite. This will allow anyone with access to the shared inbox to send a meeting (appears like any normal teams meeting invite) to who-ever and allow anyone with access to change the meeting times, invite text etc. etc.

It also means the shared inbox does not need a teams account. The settings will only be adjustable by the account that originally created the meeting, but these settings rarely need to be changed. The only downside for me is that the shared inbox and my account have 2 meetings, the original teams one and the "outlook" meeting. 

Hope this helps, I spent too long looking for a solution, so I thought I'd post it here...

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