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Teams Meeting Recording without Stream
Here is a bit more detail on the entire process: a meeting is recorded in the Teams service, and it remains there until it can upload it to Stream. Once it can upload it to Stream, a link to the recording in Stream is inserted in the related Team channel or chat, and it the video remains in Stream only. If the recording can't be uploaded to Stream, for whatever reason (maybe the user doesn't have access to Stream or the user doesn't have a license to Stream), it remains in the Teams service for 7 days (this has been recently increased to 20 days) and a user can download it from Teams and move it somewhere else (since the user can't access Stream, he or she can upload it to the files tab in Teams or his OneDrive for Business, as an example). The number of days can NOT be changed, because it's really just a temporary place to store the recording until it can get moved to Stream. After the deadline, the video is deleted from the service for good. I hope that helps you understand why different people see different things (once user can access Stream, and the other cannot).
Here is a bit more detail on the entire process: a meeting is recorded in the Teams service, and it remains there until it can upload it to Stream. Once it can upload it to Stream, a link to the recording in Stream is inserted in the related Team channel or chat, and it the video remains in Stream only. If the recording can't be uploaded to Stream, for whatever reason (maybe the user doesn't have access to Stream or the user doesn't have a license to Stream), it remains in the Teams service for 7 days (this has been recently increased to 20 days) and a user can download it from Teams and move it somewhere else (since the user can't access Stream, he or she can upload it to the files tab in Teams or his OneDrive for Business, as an example). The number of days can NOT be changed, because it's really just a temporary place to store the recording until it can get moved to Stream. After the deadline, the video is deleted from the service for good. I hope that helps you understand why different people see different things (once user can access Stream, and the other cannot).
dgorgone Hi, for some reason I'm unable to download the recorded meetings locally. I noticed this happened only recently but it only happens to me and a few others. I am perplexed as most people in the meeting could download them without any obstruction. As for me, it would not even show that the file is downloadable, I'm using a PC as well. Thanks.
dgorgone Hello Mr. Dave, actually mine is a bit different because after the meeting the recorded meetings doesn't show in the chat area. I mean I did follow the steps on starting the recording and ending the recording and it did not show after the meeting, its been 2 days now from the date of the meeting and I am afraid that after 7 days the video is now gone.
I even check in Stream, OneDrive and even in the Outlook. I did everything I could but the recorded is really gone and that meeting I have is very important. Attached is the proof that I did turn on the recording. I did not make any notes because I trusted the recorded meeting. I hope you could help me with this and I really appreciate your help.
Thank you so much.
How do I know if I have or not the license for steam? I'm actually using it to upload videos and create groups and channels. But the recording from teams is not going to steam.
I'm using a cooperative license of Office 365 from the university that I work for.
Best regards,
Ebrahim
Ebrahimse81 - if your Teams Meeting Recordings are not going to Stream but stay as a download in chat, even though you can access Stream, here's a common cause: The impacted users have TeamsMeetingPolicy-AllowCloudRecording setting set to false (also available via the Teams admin center UI). See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording for a list of the prerequisites needed to send meeting recordings to Stream.
Try going to https://web.microsoftstream.com/ and see
dgorgone As you said people who are part of that meeting can download the video directly from microsoft teams where that video will stay for 20 days, but Can you please tell me how to restrict access to that video to certain users? considering person who started recording cannot see these videos in the streams
dgorgone thanks for the clarification! 🙂
The only thing I'm still confused about is whether users still need a separate Stream license or not for the Teams meeting recording to upload to Stream successfully.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview says that users with e.g. Office E1/E3 are allowed to upload videos to Stream.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording however says
- User has an Office 365 E1, E3, E5, A1, A3, A5, M365 Business, Business Premium or Business Essentials
- User needs to be licensed for Microsoft Stream1
1 User needs to be licensed to upload/download meetings to/from Microsoft Stream, however they do not need the license to record a meeting.
So what's true then? Do you know per chance / experience?
Or maybe Microsoft forgot to update their documentation?
pfoerster To be able to upload the recording to Stream the user that records need to have a Stream license that is included in E1, E3, E5, A1, A3 and some more licenses. The Stream license also have to be active for the user, so if you assign a E3 license to a user and disable Stream in that license it will not work.
- Hi Linus,
thank you for your reply. Now it makes sense 🙂
dgorgone by any chance do you have a link to the source/reference where this is documented? I am having a hard time wrapping by brains around it and can't seem to find concrete info. Stream and its permissioning is anyway so confusing and add to that these Teams meetings!!
Hi dgorgone
thank you for the details! helps a lot.
One problem is that we can't automate that upload with power automate / neither from Stream nor from Teams...
The second problem is that the remaining days not visible for the users.
Have a nice weekend
- Hi Dave, that's really useful information to know, and exactly what I was looking for.
