Pause a recording in Team Meetings

While this is an old post, i figured that other people will end up here when they try to search for a pause feature for Teams recordings too.  To follow up on the original poster’s preference to consolidate their software footprint and go all-Microsoft, I would ask why?  Are you clinically insane?

If you look at the link to the microsoft forums posted above asking for a pause feature, youll see that it took TWO YEARS for the request to even be acknowledged.  It seems like it took a very lengthy and critical post a few days prior for them to notice the problem reported by sp kany people.  Microsoft’s priority is definitely not ease of use or being helpful, it’s to ensure that they have their fingers in everything and trap companies into buying all of their products as they will “work together” and perhaps save you money if you buy the whole package.  Going all-microsoft sounds logical, but it really doesn’t if you have a choice.  When you go grocery shopping, would you be happy paying for a box that had random foods inside that some cashier said were good for you and was on sale?  Or would rather pick and choose what you feel like eating?

If you have no decision making power and have to use what’s provided by your company, then that’s unfortunate.  But if you have a choice or are buying for an IT department, don’t fall into the trap.  The old saying was “you’ll never get fired for buying IBM” and it applies to Microsoft today.  It’s the safe choice because everyone will assume you did the right thing no matter what goes wrong or how annoying it is.  But be smart, take the time to source the right software for each need and who cares if they are from different companies.  Choose the best software in each category and make things easy on your staff.  The offices I’ve worked at that took this approach made things so easy that you never had to call IT for help.  In fact, their only job was to set up laptops for people to use and keep track of who had what.  I’d really love to see the reaction on a designer’s face if you asked them to use MS Paint to draw up a poster.

And to the poster who said the solution was to use a video editor to cut clips?  I hope someone’s paying you to do it, because nobody’s paying me or giving me more time to do that.  It’s just so unnecessary when a simple pause button in the software, like ither similar platforms have, would solve this.  I can only think that this whole Teams/Sharepoint/OneDrive mishmash has gotten so complex to integrate that they can’t make easy changes without screwing up the whole thing.

if you’re reading this, consider adding a new lengthy post here or on the user forums.  Or better yet, go viral with this and have it blow up.  I guess that’s the real way to get things done these days.

I couldn't agree more.

It's infuriating how one of the biggest corporations in the world can't figure out something as simple as "Pause Recording".

In general, Teams is a rip-off from products made by much smaller corporations but despite Microsoft having endless resources and other's products to copy from, they still can figure out the basics functions and the decent user interfaces.

Hi Tim,

My name is Didi, an Independent Advisor. I'll be happy to assist you today.

This feature isn't available yet but hundreds of users have voted for it at Teams UserVoice. You can check out the following links:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555...
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555...

Your idea and opinion will be very useful for Microsoft to improve its products.

Best regards,
Didi

A simple solution is to

Just do It - Add a pause button

We can send a man to the moon we can creaye a vaccine but Microsort cannot add a Bl..... pause button!!!

Really????

I would love the abolity to pause mid-recording. 

As an elementary teacher, we have many inturruptions and the students would grretly benenfit from recorded lessons to review with, and to view in the case of an absence.