As the manager of a room you've created, you can add others as managers to share management duties. Managers must appear in the pool of potential members for the room category that your room belongs to.
Your new managers won’t automatically become room members—you’ll have to add them as members.
Rooms that have an open privacy setting don't require or allow membership, but closed or secret rooms do. As the room manager, you can control who can join the closed or secret rooms you create. You’re automatically a member of any closed or secret room you create.
You can add members as you see fit. But anyone you add must appear in the pool of potential members for the room category that your room belongs to. And you also can remove members from the room.
You can manage a Skype for Business chat room under these conditions:
If you’re the manager of a chat room, you’ll see your name in the Managers box on the chat room’s Room card.
As a chat room manager, you control most of the settings of the chat rooms you manage. In addition to creating your own persistent chat rooms, you can change their privacy levels, assign additional responsibilities to room managers, and add or remove members.
You also can change the names and descriptions of the rooms you manage. And if your administrator has made more web-based applications available, you can add them to the room environment. Finally, you can disable a room to lock out members.
Here is a list of actions and what you can and can’t do as a room manager.
Action | Can a room manager perform this action? |
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Create a chat room | Yes |
Name or rename a chat room | Yes |
Create or revise a chat room description | Yes |
Select or change a chat room privacy setting | Yes |
Add or remove members of a chat room | Yes |
Choose not to send notifications (invites) to new members | Yes |
Add or remove managers of a chat room | Yes |
Add or remove an Add-in (web-based application) | Yes |
Assign a room category to a chat room (if administrator has made multiple categories available) | Yes |
Disable a chat room | Yes |
Re-enable a disabled chat room | No |
Delete a chat room | No |
Restore a deleted chat room | No |
Delete a chat room post | No |
Delete a chat room’s history | No |
You’ll carry out your room management tasks on the Edit a room page.
Sometimes you might need to disable a chat room you manage. After a room is disabled, users can't find it or join it, and current members (including you as the room manager) are removed.
Disabling a room might be necessary for several reasons. Maybe the room has served its purpose or has been superseded by a more active room whose focus overlaps with yours.