Manage VOD publishing for Teams events

  • Applies to: Microsoft Teams

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Video on Demand (VOD) for Microsoft Teams events enables event organizers to quickly publish and share event recordings. When organizers record these events, the recordings are uploaded to OneDrive. When published, recordings are stored in SharePoint Embedded Containers and all attendees automatically receive an email with a link to view the recording.

As an admin, you can manage whether organizers can publish recordings for:

Delete VOD recordings

To learn how to delete VOD recordings, see Teams meeting recording and transcript storage and permissions in OneDrive and SharePoint.

Manage VOD publishing for events up to 1,000 attendees

You can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell to manage VOD publishing permissions for events with up to 1,000 attendees, such as webinars.

The following table lists the values that you can set for publishing permissions for events with up to 1,000 attendees, along with the corresponding behaviors.

Teams admin center value PowerShell value Behavior
Not allowed None Organizers with this policy can't publish any event recordings.
Invite only InviteOnly Organizers with this policy can only publish recordings for invite-only events. These organizers can't publish any recordings of public events.
Your organization EveryoneInCompanyIncludingGuests Organizers with this policy can only publish recordings for private and invite-only events. These organizers can't publish any recordings for public events.
Public Everyone This is the default. Organizers with this policy can publish any event recordings.

Note

Guests can't view recordings of private events.

Using the Teams admin center

  1. In the left navigation of the Teams admin center, go to Meetings > Events policies.
  2. Select an existing policy or create a new one.
  3. In the Allowed webinar types for recordings dropdown list, choose one of the following values:
    • Not allowed
    • Invite only
    • Your organization
    • Public
  4. Select Save.

Using PowerShell

Use the -AllowedWebinarTypesForRecordingPublish parameter within the CsTeamsEventsPolicy PowerShell cmdlet.

To prevent organizers from publishing any event recordings, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowedWebinarTypesForRecordingPublish None

To only allow organizers to publish private event recordings, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowedWebinarTypesForRecordingPublish EveryoneInCompanyIncludingGuests

Manage VOD publishing for events optimized for large audiences

You can use the Teams admin center or PowerShell to manage VOD publishing permissions for events optimized for large audiences, such as town halls.

The following table lists the values that you can set for publishing permissions for events optimized for large audiences, along with the corresponding behaviors.

Teams admin center value PowerShell value Behavior
Not allowed None Organizers with this policy can't publish any event recordings.
Invite only InviteOnly Organizers with this policy can only publish recordings for invite-only events. These organizers can't publish any recordings of public events.
Your organization EveryoneInCompanyIncludingGuests Organizers with this policy can only publish recordings for private and invite-only events. These organizers can't publish any recordings for public events.
Public Everyone This is the default. Organizers with this policy can publish any event recordings.

Using the Teams admin center

  1. In the left navigation of the Teams admin center, go to Meetings > Events policies.
  2. Select an existing policy or create a new one.
  3. In the Allowed town hall types for recordings dropdown list, choose one of the following values:
    • Not allowed
    • Invite only
    • Your organization
    • Public
  4. Select Save.

Using PowerShell

Use the -AllowedTownhallTypesForRecordingPublish parameter within the CsTeamsEventsPolicy PowerShell cmdlet.

To only allow organizers to publish recordings of invite-only events, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowedTownhallTypesForRecordingPublish InviteOnly

To prevent organizers from publishing any event recordings, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowedTownhallTypesForRecordingPublish None

To only allow organizers to publish recordings of private and invite-only events, run the following command:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity <policy name> -AllowedTownhallTypesForRecordingPublish EveryoneInCompanyIncludingGuests
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