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Aug 03, 2021

Microsoft to Introduce Auto-Expiration for Teams Meeting Recordings

In September 2021, Microsoft will introduce a new auto-expiration feature for Teams meeting recordings stored in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. By default, recordings will be moved ...

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TonyRedmond

MVP

Apr 25, 2022

I believe that losing the ability to set an expiration date when moving out of OneDrive to SharePoint is expected. When you move a file to a SharePoint site, it becomes a shared resource and is under the control of whatever retention policy applies to the site. If you want to set a specific retention period for a recording, you can use a retention label. As to the 120/60 days thing, I think this is just the GUI struggling to catch up with a decision to move the default retention period out to 120 days from 60 (the original value).

sd adm

Iron Contributor

Apr 25, 2022

We aren't moving recordings between ODB & SPO, and we still "lost" the expiration.

The field was definitely there when we tested on 3/15 (both with a user who was seeing the expiration happening early per incident TM341040 and one who was waiting for change MC274188 to be applied on 03/25).

It's only on 04/11 that we noticed the expiration had completely disappeared (I got a heads up in the AM from JasonPearce's post, and that afternoon a user contacted our internal helpdesk).

TonyRedmond
MVP
Apr 25, 2022
sd adm Do you mean that you don't see expiration dates at all?

I just created a Teams meeting recording and see the expiration date in its properties.
- sd adm
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 25, 2022
  TonyRedmond ,
  correct, we don't see them at all anymore.
  Screenshot from 03/15 of a TMR after it was restored:
  
  Screenshot from 04/11 of the same TMR:
  
  I even made an additional new meeting on 4/11 (when the field disappeared) & it has no expiration in the details pane.
  - sd adm
    Iron Contributor
    May 04, 2022
    TonyRedmond , As of April 29th, I now see expirations on new meeting recordings.
    There no field in the details for expiation on existing TMRs at all, though.
    
    I thought the field would be present (but set to no expiration) on TMRs from before the change was implemented; is that not the case? It's still a file property, so I thought it would be visible in the details.