Change the expiration date of a recurring meeting recording

I don't understand the above answer as we have always had the option for users to change or remove the expiration date. I have screenshots if it in our Stream guidance. However today, that option has suddenly disappeared for nearly all of our users - I still have it, but I am in the minority.

Our expiration is set to a default of 60 days - this hasn't changed, however we can no longer go into the video, select editing mode and chose 'remove expiration date', or even amend individual videos to be retained for a longer, or shorter period than the policy dictates. This is for Teams meeting recordings held in the organiser's OneDrive, and yet the organiser is no longer able to change the date. This is a huge issue for us and seems to have changed at the same time that the new 'delete' option has come in.

Hello Christian,

Good day! Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Community. We'll be happy to help!

Based on your description, I understand that you have a query regarding extending the meeting expiration date.

To change the expiration date of your meeting recording, you will have to reach out to your admin/ IT team (or if you have admin permission at least Teams Administrator), and through Teams admin center (Meeting policies) you will have an option to extend the expiration days or remove the expiration option altogether and your meeting recordings can be kept permanently.

To Change default expiration time, an admin can follow (if you need help finding your admin Find the administrator for your work or school account - Microsoft Support):

1. Log in to Microsoft Teams admin center (Microsoft Teams admin center).
2. Click the Meetings drop-down button.
3. Select Meeting Policies.
4. Select the meeting policy you want to make the changes to (If you want this for all users select Global)
5. Go to the Recording & transcription section.
6. Turn off the ‘Recordings automatically expire’ toggle
7. Or you can Set a specific number of default days.

With regards to your second query, the meeting recordings are now saved to the meeting organizer's OneDrive ( Record a meeting in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support)

On your end maybe it is because the meeting is a reoccurring meeting, and it doesn't respect the new changes. If even for the new meetings you schedule the recordings are still being stored to the recorder's OneDrive, you can also involve your admin to disable this through PowerShell (Teams meeting recording and transcript storage and permissions in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn, Set-CsTeamsRecordingRollOutPolicy (MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell) | Microsoft Learn).

If you have any further queries or need any further clarification, please let me know by responding on this thread.

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you.

Hello Christian,

Thank you for your prompt response and offering more clarification on this thread.

I did some research on this, and unfortunately it is not possible to set this up from the user's side or setting up a policy for only specific meetings meeting.

A workaround this, would be if you can create a user who just create reoccurring meetings, then you can assign a custom meeting policy that removes expiration date, to that special user. the only other option is to change the expiration date manually as you usually do it.

Since this is about the product design, I suggest raising feedback for a feature like this, in the future versions of the product. You can share your feedback by going to Feedback in your Teams app and selecting Suggest a Feature or by posting on Teams Feedback Portal. This tool allows you to describe the feature in detail and submit it directly to our product development team for review. I will do the same internally.

Please note that the community team and the Microsoft product development team are separate. The product development team is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Microsoft products. They work on implementing new features, fixing bugs, and making improvements based on user feedback and other factors.

We sincerely appreciate your cooperation and patience in this matter. Wishing you all the best!

But as I understand, the setting in the admin center is for all meetings. Meaning all meeting recordings will be stored without expiration date. But In general I would like to keep that 90 days which is a good standard. But just for a specific recurring meeting, which is worth to keep it always it makes sense to change it. But today I need to change this setting every time (or forget about it).