Microsoft Teams: New recording policies for town halls and webinars

Updated April 18, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: New admin policies in the Teams admin center and Microsoft PowerShell that govern the recording behavior for town halls and webinars. Before this rollout, the same policies control the recording behavior for town halls, webinars, and meetings. After this rollout, separate recording policies for town halls and webinars will be available to more finely control event behavior. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473887.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late April 2025 (previously early April) and expect to complete by mid-May 2025 (previously mid-April).

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 (previously mid-April) and expect to complete by late May 2025 (previously late April).

How this will affect your organization:

This change will be available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

Before the rollout, we encourage you to use PowerShell commands to update the default values of the recording policies for webinars and town halls. After the rollout, you can use Teams admin center or PowerShell commands to update the values.

Examples of PowerShell commands to set the town hall or webinar recording policy:

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -RecordingForTownhall Enabled

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -RecordingForWebinar Enabled

Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: New-CsTeamsEventsPolicy (MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell) | Microsoft Learn