Microsoft Teams – Major Update – Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint – Updating default settings using PowerShell

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!! Today update on Microsoft Teams and settings related to Teams meeting recordings auto-expiration

Background / Details :

• Recently Microsoft have Major Updates for Microsoft Teams – Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint
• When meeting recording done, expiration date is stamped on the file and physically deletes the file based on that stamped expiration date
• Default expiration date is 120 days, extended from 60 days to 120 days
• After expiration files will be automatically deleted which are stored in OneDrive or SharePoint
• If requires Admin can disable this feature from Microsoft Teams Admin center – we will discuss these details in next article
• Users can also modify the expiration date for any recordings on which they have edit/delete permissions, using the files details pane in OneDrive or SharePoint
• When a recording is deleted due to the expiration setting, the end user will be notified via email
• The SharePoint tenant or site admin, or the end user with edit/delete permissions will be able to retrieve the file from the recycle bin for up to 90 days
• The min number of days that can be set on is 1 and the maximum is 99,999 (e.g. 273 years) or it can be set to never auto-expire

Overriding Default Settings :

• We can override default teams recordings expiration settings either through PowerShell or Teams Admin Center

Overriding default teams recordings expiration settings through PowerShell :

• Open SharePoint Online Management Shell
• We will use the PowerShell CMDLET – Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy
• Before executing “Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy” we need to connect the Microsoft Teams using CMDLET – Connect-MicrosoftTeams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams

• Enter the respective credentials

• As we get connected to Microsoft Teams successfully, we are ready to execute our CMDLET – Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -NewMeetingRecordingExpirationDays 180

• We can verify updated settings through the PowerShell CMDLET – Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy

Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy | Select-Object -Property NewMeetingRecordingExpirationDays

NewMeetingRecordingExpirationDays
---------------------------------
                              180

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 84580

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