I hosted a meeting, which I recorded. My organisation's internet connection dropped and we were forced out of the meeting. When I rejoined I had no option to stop recording - only start recording was an option. I thought we had lost the recording, however, 4 hours later it published. But every 4 hours since then it is publishing a new 4 hour video for an empty meeting (black screen, no audio). Nobody is left in the meeting. I have tried rejoining and ending the meeting, but still the recordings continue. Is there a way to force stop on recording an empty meeting?

ChrisHoardMVP James Lockyer Hi there,I have just ran into the same issue:- We had a Teams call yesterday with 4 other people, which I started to record.- I didn't stop the recording when the call finished, I just assumed the recording would stop automatically after all attendees have left. But...- The original recording never stopped. The call took us ~40 minutes but the 1st recording shows 4 hours.- And then the recording kept going on and on, in empty chunks of 4 hours.- After several chunks were recorded, I decided to Join back into the meeting.- I verified that nobody was connected ("you are the only one here").- Via the ellipsis (...) I saw the "Start recording" button (as if Teams was not recording, but it was!)- So I tried to start recording, wait a few seconds, and then stop recording.- Voila! Recording stopped. But...- After a few hours, Teams started to record again, all by itself.- Right now it's recording the 2nd 4 hour empty chunk after it restarted recording... I don't think the Teams client has anything to do, as it seems to be a server issue, but do you think removing and reinstalling the Teams client in my PC may help? Any other ideas? Thanks in advance,Gonzalo

My best bet is to issue a ticket to Microsoft support.I know there are issues editing meetings that have started.

NicoMichel Similar issue here, the meeting has ended, but recording has not stopped. So I have no access to that meeting, but I get a whopping new file every 4 hours.I have to say, the meeting was really buggy in the end: sharing screen was not working any longer even if I tried to unshare and share again several times several different windows and the whole desktop too. In the end I decided to end the meeting, so I stopped recording and ended the meeting BUT, recording never really stopped EVEN if it said so when I clicked on the proper option in the menu.This is quite disfunctional.

NicoMichel Thanks, I will surely do the same.I have also asked the University management, just in case they have any sort of "authoritative" access, but I am not that optimistic.

NicoMichel How I ended up ending the meeting was to have the owner of the meeting (whoever sent out the meeting request) rejoin the meeting and then rather than just leaving the meeting, click on "End Meeting" (I believe this has been rebranded to end call for everyone or something under the leave button if you're the owner of the meeting). I haven't had an issue since I started having people end the meetings that way. So much has changed in Teams since I first had the issue I don't know if other things are now broken too.

Teams recording won't stop - new 4 hour recording every 4 hours!

Nicklas Lundqvist
Iron Contributor
Dec 03, 2019
My best bet is to issue a ticket to Microsoft support.

I know there are issues editing meetings that have started.
- ChrisHoardMVP
  MVP
  Dec 04, 2019
  I agree. Escalate to Microsoft on a ticket and then confirm the resolution back.
  
  Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP
MVP
Oct 06, 2019
Hi James,

Just to ask and confirm, after logging back into the meeting you stopped the actual recording in the meeting controls? Should be via the ellipsis (...)

If you did, short of deleting the meeting and seeing if that stops it, I would recommend raising a ticket to support via the Microsoft 365 admin centre. AFAIK there’s no way to stop a recurrent recording if you have already stopped it via the meeting controls after jumping back in the meeting (I.e via Powershell)

Hope that answers your question!

Best, Chris
- galborja
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 03, 2019
  ChrisHoardMVP James Lockyer
  
  Hi there,
  I have just ran into the same issue:
  - We had a Teams call yesterday with 4 other people, which I started to record.
  - I didn't stop the recording when the call finished, I just assumed the recording would stop automatically after all attendees have left.
  
  But...
  - The original recording never stopped. The call took us ~40 minutes but the 1st recording shows 4 hours.
  - And then the recording kept going on and on, in empty chunks of 4 hours.
  - After several chunks were recorded, I decided to Join back into the meeting.
  - I verified that nobody was connected ("you are the only one here").
  - Via the ellipsis (...) I saw the "Start recording" button (as if Teams was not recording, but it was!)
  - So I tried to start recording, wait a few seconds, and then stop recording.
  - Voila! Recording stopped.
  
  But...
  - After a few hours, Teams started to record again, all by itself.
  - Right now it's recording the 2nd 4 hour empty chunk after it restarted recording...
  
  I don't think the Teams client has anything to do, as it seems to be a server issue, but do you think removing and reinstalling the Teams client in my PC may help?
  
  Any other ideas?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  Gonzalo
  - Oppugnator
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 18, 2020
    I am facing the exact same issue atm - response from support yesterday: It may be a server side issue. galborja
    
    Still - every 4 hours I get a notification for a new recording stored on ms stream.
RealTime_M365
MVP
Apr 18, 2020
Hi James, With the recent updates to Microsoft Teams and the End Meeting Feature released this should be resolved. Once you are meeting end you can end the meeting and the recording should stop. Please refer to the below article for the reference with regards to End Meeting Feature. https://networking-talks.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-feature-launched-in-microsoft-teams.html With Regards, Satish U
- JoshuaP
  Copper Contributor
  May 07, 2020
  RealTime_M365 I have version 1.3.00.12058 and I still do not have this functionality related to ending the meeting you discuss. I have a meeting which has been recording in 4 hour increments for the last 23 hours. How do I get this to stop? The article you directed to also said the pop out chat feature is available in the version identified in the article and I do not have that capability either. Please help.
  - NicoMichel
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 06, 2020
    JoshuaP same Issue here, and also no option to end it. Did you solve it somehow?
    
    Thanks for your answer

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