The new feature rolled out in Microsoft’s December updates for the Teams collaboration platform. The feature is the solution for a problem between Teams and Android, the problem which caused freezing issues in few devices while making an emergency call and also includes end-to-end encryption. Admins will now be able to turn off the auto-expiration option which is enabled by default. If no action is taken after rollout, the latest recordings will expire after 60 days of being captured that too automatically. Blog post affirms, that Microsoft introduced this new feature “due to overwhelming customer requests”. Microsoft said that the newly created Teams meeting recordings usually gets expired within 60 days by default. This setting is always kept on for the tenants by default. However, after this capability is enabled all the TMRs created will be deleted 60 days after the creation date.
Through PowerShell commands, the admins can choose to never auto-expire meetings in the Teams admin centre. Microsoft described the feature as “lightweight housekeeping mechanism to reduce storage clutter” caused by older recordings. These recordings in an hour consumes around 400MB of cloud storage. To give a tough competition to other video conferencing platforms like Google meet, Zoom, etc., Microsoft teams is working regularly to enhance the platform. Microsoft revealed that it roughly has 250 million monthly active users. It has approx. 80 million monthly active users in Android and iOS.
