How do I avoid having a TEAMS meeting recording being stored onto the first attendee who signs into the meeting?

Question

We have our TEAMS meetings to automatically record, however, if the organizer is not the first one to sign into the meeting, or happens to be out that day, then the recording is stored on whomever signs into the meeting first. We would prefer the recording to be kept on the organizers recording folder. Also, we would prefer it not to automatically delete the recordings after 60 days. Where would we change the settings to avoid that?

Answer 1

Hi @77110657

For non-channel meetings, the recording will be stored in the Recordings folder in the OneDrive directory of the person who started the recording.

Since you enabled automatic recording, the meeting will be saved in the first attendee's OneDrive, which is by design of Teams, but everyone invited to the meeting will be able to view the recording.

You can turn off the Meetings automatically expire setting in the Teams admin center under Meetings > Meeting policies > Recording & transcription.

This setting controls whether or not meeting recordings automatically expire. After turning on Meetings automatically expire, you'll get the option to set the Default expiration time, measured in days. Meeting recordings have a default expiration time of 120 days.
Any changes to this setting only affect newly created meeting recordings, not existing recordings. Admins can't change the expiration time on existing meeting recordings.

The expiration value is an integer for days that can be set as follows:

1.Minimum value: 1

2.Maximum value: 99999

3.-1 (PowerShell only) so the recordings never expire.

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