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Teams Recording availability for South Africa region-registered tenants
mikkele The documentation has now been updated as it was misleading it now says
'Users won't need a Microsoft Stream license assigned if you want users to only record and download the recordings. This will mean that the recordings aren't stored in Microsoft Stream but are instead stored in Azure Media Services (AMS) with a 21-day limit before it's deleted. It's not something at this point that an admin can control or manage including the ability to delete it.'
ChristianBergstrom how do you interpret this?
These 2 statements are in the same article and confusing to me
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording
Users won't need a Microsoft Stream license assigned if you want users to only record and download the recordings. This will mean that the recordings aren't stored in Microsoft Stream but are instead stored in Azure Media Services (AMS) with a 30 day limit before it's deleted.
Meeting recordings are stored in Microsoft Stream cloud storage. Once you record a meeting, Microsoft Stream retains it forever (or until the recording owner deletes it). If the recording doesn't get uploaded to Stream, it's stored in Teams cloud storage, where it's available for download for 20 days.
mikkele I believe this is the case.
No Stream license: Record/download and stored in Azure Media Services, not Stream, for 30 days.
With Stream license: If uploaded retained forever. If not uploaded to Stream then Teams cloud storage for 20 days.
Likewise - however we have managed to follow the guidance and enable our clients to record within teams. - It took a day or two to take affect after applying the change - and not all policies are able to be changed.. but changing the global policy and assigning that to users allowed teams recording.
set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -AllowRecordingStorageOutsideRegion $true
Sets the value on the global policy
Regards
As of today, 13 August 2020 - still impossible to record Teams meetings in South Africa. As a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) partner that markets Teams to my clients, this is particularly frustrating:(
Even worse is that there are often others in the meeting who have a tenant in another country and can record, leaving me looking stupid and unprepared. It makes selling the solution even more difficult given that I cannot even get my own system to work while clients are able to make it work.
- So just to confirm, if i remove the Stream license for each of the users, they will be able to record meetings and it will be stored for 20 days in the local Azure DC?
