Teams Tightens Access Controls for Meeting Recordings and Transcripts

Teams meeting transcripts are enormously helpful and are used by many features, including Copilot for Microsoft 365. Access to transcript files needs good control because of the possibility of confidential information being captured in transcripts. Several recent changes made to the Teams meeting policy and meeting options help organizations to exert better control over access to transcript files.

Teams Changes Location for Meeting Transcripts

Microsoft is changing the storage location for Teams Meeting Transcripts from Exchange Online to OneDrive for Business. The change is designed to standardize storage of meeting recordings and transcripts in OneDrive for Business. The change makes sense seeing that Stream has completed its migration to SharePoint and OneDrive. In other news, because transcripts are now so important for other features, a bunch of new controls are coming to allow organizations to limit access to this data.