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Chat storage for Externally-hosted Teams meetings
If I participate in a Teams meeting hosted by an external agency (totally unrelated to my own org) - are chats/content from that meeting stored only in the external agency's tenant?
And/or is a copy of the chat that I participated in stored in my own EXO in a hidden folder/location accessible by compliance/ediscovery search?
What's behind the question: another org *may* have shared some highly confidential data in a recent Teams chat in a meeting that was hosted by their org that was attended by a few staff from our own org - and we'd like to be able to say, definitively, "NONE of the content shared in the meeting's chat is stored within our tenant."
However - looking for a specific reference to cite if needed, for the scenario of a Teams meeting hosted by another org.
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Hi SW-SoCo2 ,
When you participate in a Teams meeting hosted by an external agency unrelated to your organization, the chats/content from that meeting are primarily stored in the external agency's tenant. Microsoft Teams treats external meetings as separate entities, and the data associated with those meetings is typically stored within the host organization's infrastructure.
As for your own organization's Exchange Online (EXO), by default, the chats and content from external meetings are not stored in a hidden folder or location accessible by compliance/ediscovery search in your organization's EXO. Microsoft Teams doesn't automatically replicate or store external meeting data in your organization's infrastructure unless there are specific arrangements or policies in place to capture and retain that information.
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