Official documentation
Manage Teams recording expiration policy
Microsoft, Microsoft Learn, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 19, 2026
- What it is
- Microsoft's admin article on the setting that makes Teams meeting recordings and transcripts expire. It gives the default expiration time of 120 days, the allowed range of days, the option to never expire, and the 30-day cap for A1 users.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Microsoft Learn documentation for Teams admins, read on the date shown. The period is the default for a tenant that has not changed its setting, and admins can change it, so a given organization may differ. The article describes expiry, not who can see the transcript.
Facts taken from this source
- Microsoft says Teams meeting recordings and transcripts have a default expiration time of 120 days.
“Meeting recordings and transcripts have a default expiration time of 120 days.” (Default expiration time)
- Microsoft says admins can set the Teams expiration time for recordings and transcripts to a maximum of 99999 days.
“Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 99999 -1 (PowerShell only) so the recordings and transcripts never expire” (Default expiration time)
- Microsoft says an admin can set the Teams expiration value to -1 so that recordings and transcripts never expire, a setting available only with PowerShell.
“-1 (PowerShell only) so the recordings and transcripts never expire” (Default expiration time)