Teams meeting recording storage and permissions in OneDrive and SharePoint

When users in your org record Teams meetings, the recording is stored in either OneDrive and SharePoint. Depending on where your users access the file, the recording plays on the video player in OneDrive or SharePoint. This article helps you, as an admin, understand recording storage and permissions for OneDrive and Sharepoint.

To learn about your recording policies, see Teams meeting recording. To learn how to block the download of Teams meeting recording files from SharePoint or OneDrive, see Block the download of Teams meeting recording files from SharePoint or OneDrive.

Recording storage

Meetings and events

For meetings and events, you can use the per-organizer -MeetingRecordingOwnership parameter within the PowerShell CsTeamsRecordingRolloutPolicy cmdlet to decide if the recording is saved to the organizer's or recording initiator's OneDrive. This policy applies to the following meeting and event types:

• Automatically recorded meetings
• Delegate-created meetings
• Manually recorded meetings
• Meet now meetings
• Meetings scheduled in Outlook
• Meetings scheduled in the Teams client
• Recurring meetings
• Town halls
• Webinars

If -MeetingRecordingOwnership is set to MeetingOrganizer, which is the default value, the recording saves to the organizer's OneDrive, even if the organizer didn't attend the meeting or event. All recording files are saved to the organizer's OneDrive Recordings folder. Co-organizers have the same editing permissions as organizers for recording files. To understand what happens if an organizer doesn't have a OneDrive account, see the Recording storage for organizers without OneDrive accounts section in this article.

If -MeetingRecordingOwnership is set to RecordingInitiator, the recording saves to the OneDrive of the user who starts the recording. If the recording initiator doesn't have a OneDrive, the recording is temporarily saved to async media storage.

Delegate-created meetings

For meetings in which an organizer appoints a delegate who has permission to act on the organizer's behalf, all recording files are automatically saved to the organizer's Recordings folder in OneDrive. When delegates are added as co-organizers, they have the same editing permissions as organizers for recording files.

1:1 and group calls

For 1-1 call and group calls, recording files go to the OneDrive account of the user who selected Record.

Channel meetings

For Channel meetings, the recording is stored in the SharePoint Teams site documentation library in a folder named Recordings. For example: Teams name - Channel name/Documents/Recordings.

Shared account scheduled meetings

For shared accounts scheduled meetings, if the shared account has a OneDrive, the recording is uploaded there. However, since shared accounts typically don’t have a OneDrive, the recordings are uploaded to the co-organizer’s or recording initiator's OneDrive instead. To understand what happens if an organizer doesn't have a OneDrive account, see the Recording storage for organizers without OneDrive accounts section in this article.

For details on shared accounts, see About shared mailboxes - Microsoft 365 admin.

Microsoft Teams Rooms meetings

For Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) meetings, when an organizer creates a meeting using the meet-now button in MTR, the room itself becomes the meeting organizer, and the recording is stored in the MTR’s OneDrive account. However, none of the meeting participants have full permissions to the file. If you want meeting participants to have full permissions to the recording file, avoid assigning OneDrive storage to an MTR.

When the MTR doesn't have a OneDrive account, the recording gets saved to the co-organizer's or recording initiator's OneDrive. For details on what happens if an organizer doesn't have a OneDrive account, see the Recording storage for organizers without OneDrive accounts section in this article.

When an MTR attends a meeting that another user organizes, the MTR can't initiate the recording, but other meeting participants can.

To learn more about Microsoft Teams Rooms meetings, see Microsoft Teams Rooms (Windows).

Recording storage for organizers without OneDrive accounts

When the organizer doesn’t have a OneDrive account, here's what happens, in order, to the meeting recording:

1. The recording is saved to the co-organizer's OneDrive, while the meeting or event organizer retains permissions to edit and share the recording. When there are multiple co-organizers, the recording saves to the co-organizers' OneDrive, ordered by the first letter or number of each co-organizer's Entra object ID. To find the object IDs for users in your org, see Locate important IDs for a user.

   Let's take a look at the following example with three co-organizers:

   

   In this example, the recording is saved to co-organizer 1’s OneDrive account. If co-organizer 1 doesn’t have a OneDrive account, the recording is saved to co-organizer 3’s OneDrive. If co-organizer 3 also doesn’t have a OneDrive account, the recording is then saved to co-organizer 2’s OneDrive.

2. If none of the co-organizers have OneDrive accounts, the recording is saved to the OneDrive account of the user who initiated the recording.

3. If the user who initiated the recording doesn’t have a OneDrive, the recording gets temporarily stored to async media storage.

Async media storage

If a Teams meeting recording fails to successfully upload to OneDrive because the organizer, co-organizers and recording initiator don’t have OneDrive accounts, or the storage quota is full, an error message appears. The recording is instead temporarily saved to async media storage. Once the recording is in async media storage, no retry attempts are made to automatically upload the recording to OneDrive or SharePoint. During that time, the organizer must download the recording. The organizer can try to upload the recording again if they get a OneDrive or SharePoint license, or clear some space in their storage quota. If not downloaded within 21 days, the recording is deleted.

Videos

Videos are just like any other file in OneDrive and SharePoint. Handling ownership and retention after an employee leaves follows the standard OneDrive and SharePoint process.

Retention labels

To learn how to apply retention labels to Teams meeting recordings, see How to autoapply a retention label.

Planning for storage

The size of a one-hour recording is 400 MB. Make sure you understand the capacity required for recorded files and have sufficient storage available in OneDrive and SharePoint. Read Set the default storage space for OneDrive and Manage SharePoint site storage limits to understand the base storage included in the subscription and how to purchase more storage.

Viewing permissions

For non-Channel meetings:

• All meeting invitees, except for external participants, automatically get a personally shared link. The meeting organizer must add external participants to the shared list.
• If the meeting is forwarded, only participants who are automatically added to the meeting chat thread receive the recording link.
• For optimal performance, the total number of users in a chat shouldn't exceed 1,000.
• If a meeting is forwarded to a group, only some users are added to the chat. If forwarded to an individual user, they're added to the meeting chat unless there are more than 1,000 users in the chat.
• For large meetings, if a meeting has more than 250 participants, some particpants don't automatically have file permissions. Excluded participants should ask the recording owner to add them to the shared list.

For Channel meetings, permissions are inherited from the owners and members list in the channel.

Recording quotas

Teams meeting recording files live in OneDrive and SharePoint and are included in your quota for those services. To learn more, see SharePoint quota, Sharepoint limits, and OneDrive quota.

Managing captions

Captions help create inclusive content for viewers of all abilities. Closed captions for Teams meeting recordings are available during playback only if the user had transcription turned on at the time of recording. You must enable transcription to allow your users to record meetings with transcription. To learn more about enabling transcription for your users, see Admins- Manage transcription and captions for Teams meetings.

As an owner, you can hide captions on the meeting recording, although the meeting transcript is available on Teams unless you delete it there.

Closed captions are supported for Teams meeting recordings for 60 days from when the meeting is recorded. Closed captions aren't fully supported if the Teams Meeting Recording is moved or copied from its original location on OneDrive or SharePoint.

Permissions or role-based access

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