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How to permanently delete chat conversation after scheduled meeting concludes
I'm not aware of a way to delete immediately via the retention policies. I think the lowest is just one day.
Hi Crisitan - There are two different location types you can apply retention to:
1. Teams Channel Messages
2. Teams Chat
In my testing, setting a retention on Teams Chat also applies to chat in meetings, unless the meeting took place within a channel.
Hi escupham
Thanks for the reply, yes I've created a retention policy and activated both options.
However scheduled meetings are not affected by this policy, and this is exactly what the customer would like to do. Usually this scheduled meetings are with external and/or guest participants.
The customer would like to have all chat messages automatically deleted upon the meeting ends.
At this moment doesn't seem to be possible right?
I'm not aware of a way to delete immediately via the retention policies. I think the lowest is just one day.
I have the exact same issue. I scheduled a meeting with many people in Teams some time ago and someone of the external guests posted confidential data in that meetings chat by mistake. I don't see any way to get rid of this unwanted data for everyone in that session. From my perspective this is a major security issue in Teams.
You are right escupham
That's the lowest option in the configuration, a quick note to let you know that after some further testing it seems to be working now. I had to enable the retention policy for all channels and chat messages.
Thanks!
