Managing Teams Meeting Recordings for Recaps and Compliance

• Teams meeting recordings store the audio and video content of meetings, and a transcript of spoken content, for later review and sharing or for legal reasons.
• Most users are permitted to record meetings they attend within their own organization by default, which may not be desirable in some scenarios.
• Organizations with compliance requirements or liability or privacy concerns may want to limit or disable meeting recordings.
• Proper management of meeting recordings can be key to using Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 features effectively.

Teams meeting recordings can be useful for reviewing a meeting after it has occurred, and they are also used by intelligent recap features to generate meeting summaries and propose tasks and follow up actions. However, organizations with compliance or liability concerns should understand who can record meetings and how the capability can, if necessary, be restricted or disabled—particularly if customers want to prevent (or ensure) ingestion of meeting contents into Copilot. Pending changes to how meeting recordings are stored, planned for mid-2024, could help standardize management of meeting recordings and their associated information.