Manage who can present and request control in Teams meetings and events

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As an admin, you can manage who can present in meetings and events and whether participants and external participants can request control of the presentation.

Note

In Teams events, this feature is available only in events with up to 1,000 attendees.

Manage who can present and request control

To manage who can present and request control, follow these steps:

  1. In the left navigation of the Teams admin center, go to Meetings > Meeting policies.
  2. Select the policy that you want to edit or create a new one.
  3. Go to the Content sharing section.
  4. Select the values you want for Who can present, Participants can give or request control, and External participants can give or request control settings.
  5. Select Save.

Manage who can present

Who can present lets organizers choose who can be presenters in a meeting or event. To learn more, see Change participant settings for a Teams meeting and Roles in a Teams meeting.

This setting is a per-user policy that lets you choose the default value for the Who can present setting that organizers see in their Meeting options. The Who can present policy setting affects all meetings and events, including Meet Now meetings.

To specify the default value of the Who can present setting in Teams, select one of the following settings in the Who can present policy:

Option Behavior
Only organizers and co-organizers Only the organizer and chosen co-organizers can present during the meeting or event. All the other participants join the meeting or event as attendees.
People in my org and guests Authenticated users in your org, including guests, join the meeting or event as a presenter and can present.
Everyone This is the default. Everyone attending the meeting or event joins as a presenter and can present. This setting corresponds to the Everyone setting in Teams.

After you set the default value, organizers can still change this setting through their Meeting options in Teams to choose who can present in their meetings and events.

Participants can give or request control

This setting is a per-user policy that controls whether users with this assigned policy can give, be given, or request control of the shared desktop or window. To give control, your users can hover over the top of the screen.

You can toggle this setting On or Off in the Teams admin center or manage this policy in PowerShell.

When this assigned policy is On for a user, the Give Control option is displayed in the top bar during a sharing session.

When this assigned policy is Off for a user, the Give Control option isn't available.

Let's look at the following example.

User Meeting policy Allow participant to give or request control
Daniela Global On
Adele Location1MeetingPolicy Off

Daniela can give control of the shared desktop or window to other participants in a meeting or event Adele organizes. However, Adele can't give control to other participants.

PowerShell

Use the -AllowExternalParticipantGiveRequestControl parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet to control whether external participants can give, be given, and request control during meetings and events.

To allow users to give, be given, and request control during meetings and events, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowParticipantGiveRequestControl $True

To prevent users from giving, being given, and requesting control during meetings and events, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowParticipantGiveRequestControl $False

External participants can give or request control

This setting is a per-user policy. This policy controls whether external participants can give, be given, or request control of the sharer's screen in meetings and events that organizers with this policy create.

You can toggle this setting On or Off in the Teams admin center or manage this policy in PowerShell.

External participants can give or request control doesn't control what external participants can do in meetings and events they attend. The organizer's Who can present and Who can bypass the lobby settings in their Meeting options determines what external participants can do in their meeting or event.

External participants in Teams meetings can be categorized as follows:

  • Anonymous participant
  • Guests
  • External access users

For external access users to give control to other external participants, both you and the other org's admin must have this policy set to On.

PowerShell

Use the -AllowExternalParticipantGiveRequestControl parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsMeetingPolicy cmdlet to control whether external participants can give, be given, and request control during meetings and events.

For external participants to give, be given, and request control in meetings and events organizers with this policy create, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowExternalParticipantGiveRequestControl $True

To prevent external participants from being given, giving, and requesting control in meetings and events organizers with this policy create, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowExternalParticipantGiveRequestControl $False