Changes to Teams meeting recordings for EDU A1 & “Recording failed to upload to Stream” error

This change is really really bad with grave consequences:

- the change was communicated barely a month ago, during summer holidays, leaving no time to mitigate the impact

- every education institution is scrambling right now to get ready for a new academic year with lots of uncertainty and massive change already due to Corona policies

- such a budget (10k employees needing A3 instead A1+) wasn't budgeted and can't be approved/freed up on such a short notice

- user are seeing inaccurate error messages

- we loose existing features, and these changes are perceived as "disabling an automatic process and replacing it with manuel cumbersome procedures"

- internal pressure within eductional institutions is very high for competing tools like Zoom, which is for most users easier to use, Panopto, with specific educational features ... 

An example of the impact: Oral exams are being recorded these weeks with Teams. After the recoding was available in Stream the teacher changes the permission to exclude the student from reviewing. Right now teachers notice they can't change permissions anymore to exclude a student from viewing the recording, this freaks them out. When it was made in a 1:1 chat, it's not possible to remove the student from the chat. Some creative teachers are now inviting colleagues pro forma so they can remove the student from the chat, but they and we lost all trust in this technology. We can only hope the student is unable to review the recording but are unable to control or check it properly.

I'm sorry to be really pissed at this rushed decision, we are working hard to support our users getting the most out of Office 365 tools, explaining why they provide more value, provide consistency or more security (even though they always find an alternative tool that is easier to use for a certain use case).

I hope you will revert the change but honestly, I'm not sure if it isn't already too late. 

Bart