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How to automatically record all Teams meetings?
Paul_Keijzers Yes. I read that article. It tells me that automatic recording is possible using templates or sensitivity labels. But the article does tell me how.
In Teams Admin Centre, I'm blocked from using templates to automatically record all meetings. And I can't find anything relating to sensitivity options. Hence my question.
Jsnyder285 No, unfortunately I didn't find a solution to recording all meetings automatically.
The options are:
1. The meeting organiser sets the meeting to record automatically when they create the meeting.
2. The meeting organiser starts recording the meeting when it starts.
3. The meeting organiser uses a meeting template when creating the meeting and that template is configured to automatically record the meeting.
4. The meeting organiser uses a sensitivity label when creating the meeting and that label is configured to automatically record the meeting.
Options 3 or 4 require Teams Premium, they don't work with scheduling tools such as Calendly, and aren't automatic.
The only option appears to be expensive third-party add-ons designed for contact centres that run Teams and must record all phone calls for compliance purposes.
Teams simply doesn't have the option that Zoom has for a user to configure automatic recording of all their meeting.
Next best option might be one of those AI tools that joins all your meetings and transcribes them. But that still doesn't record the actual meeting.
Neil_Benson - I spent 30 minutes banging my head against the wall on this as well.
I would happily pay the Teams Premium cost, but I don't want to manually switch recording on for every meeting - especially when many of them come in via Calendly or are similarly ad hoc.
Can any Microsoft folks comment? Am I missing something here? Seems like a pretty basic org-wide setting that could / should be enabled for default use.Isaiah_Berg unfortunately, I don't think it's possible. I spent several hours on the phone with Microsoft Support trying to resolve the issue of setting up meeting templates in Teams Premium. But the template has to be manually selected, in which case you may as well use manual recording. I gave up and came to the conclusion that Teams just doesn't have this feature that Zoom has.
- I've been struggling with this also. this article would seem to suggest that default sensitivity labels can be applied to meetings to enforce recordings https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/sensitivity-labels-meetings#how-to-configure-a-sensitivity-label-to-protect-calendar-items-teams-meetings-and-chat. However I haven't tested due to the additional need for an E5 licence as suggested here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-add-on-licensing/licensing-enhance-teams#meetings-protection
