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Meeting chat history
+1 for me on this topic. In order to better explain to end users how to leverage meeting history, it is important to understand the backend administration. I agree with escupham that there is a lot of information on all other forms of chat/history in Teams, but not when it comes to meetings. I hesitate to create materials based on technical assumptions (nothing ever goes wrong with that!) and am at a standstill when it comes to the details behind meeting history.
ShannonDuffy Yeah, add me in the same boat. I'd definitely like to see more documentation around how Teams meetings chats are handled when it comes to retention policies. Are they handled by the same policies as 1-on-1/impromptu chats, or are they subject to Teams channels/groups chat? Some more clarity would be helpful.
JackBurt0n The answer is that it depends.
If you create a meeting from a channel then the chat in that meeting is a thread in your channel and has the same expiry as any over channel conversation.
If you create a meeting that isn't in a channel then it's a chat, and will have the same retention that you define for 1:1 chats.
StevenC365 Thank you! Been looking all over the documentation for a clear answer on that. Okay, so my next question on this subject then - if we have a Teams meeting that is scheduled outside of a group (so essentially a 1:1 chat, like you mentioned), and we turn on retention for say, 3 days, will people still be able to see/post in the meeting chat after the retention period, or will the meeting chat disappear from their chat history list? Just trying to assuage some C-level fears.
