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Teams Premium + Bookings : Automatic recording and transcription for Bookings meetings ?
Hello,
I have a Teams Premium license, recording and transcription policies are enabled on the admin side, and Video Recap works correctly when both are active simultaneously in the same meeting.
My use case : my clients book time slots via Microsoft Bookings. Teams meetings are therefore created automatically by Bookings and I have no control over their scheduling.
According to Microsoft Learn documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/virtual-appointment-meeting-template and https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/bookings/bookings-overview), there is no documented mechanism to automatically apply a Teams meeting template, and therefore automatic recording and transcription, to meetings generated by Bookings.
My question: has anyone found a workaround for this limitation (Power Automate, Graph API, or anything else)? And does Microsoft have a documented roadmap on this topic?
This gap directly prevents Teams Premium users from accessing Video Recap on their client meetings, which is one of the core use cases Teams Premium is designed for.
Thank you for your help
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Your conclusion is correct for Bookings: admin policies permit recording and transcription but do not force the Record and transcribe automatically meeting option, and Bookings exposes no template selector. The screenshot shows organizer-scheduled Teams templates. A custom Microsoft Graph workaround is possible. After a Bookings appointment is created, read its joinWebUrl, retrieve the organizer’s onlineMeeting by filtering on that URL, then PATCH recordAutomatically and allowTranscription to true. For unattended processing, use OnlineMeetings.ReadWrite.All plus an application access policy, and pilot this because the organizer’s meeting must be discoverable through onlineMeetings. Graph cannot apply meetingTemplateId to an existing meeting because that property is not updateable. Power Automate would therefore need an authenticated Graph call rather than a normal Bookings action. Microsoft currently publishes no committed roadmap for direct template assignment. Submit this gap through Teams feedback and your Microsoft support channel, and test recap generation before expanding the automation.
