Microsoft has released a new tool for Microsoft Teams that allows them to delete recording files saved in OneDrive or SharePoint after a certain amount of time has passed. According to IT Consultants, the company announced the new capability in its December upgrades for the Microsoft Teams collaboration platform, which also featured end-to-end encryption for calls and solutions for a Microsoft Teams and Android bug that led some devices to stop after making an emergency call. 

The auto-expiration functionality, which is enabled by default, may be turned off by administrators. If no action is done following the rollout, all new recordings will automatically be deleted 60 days after they were recorded. 

Microsoft known for Office 365 accelerated the launch of the functionality “due to massive consumer demands,” according to a blog article.  

“All freshly made Microsoft Teams meeting recordings (TMRs) have a two-month default expiry date,” the company said in a support post. “All renters have this switched on by default.” 

“This implies that any TMRs generated once this functionality was switched on will be erased 60 days after their creation date by default,” it continued. 

Administrators may also arrange meetings to never expire utilizing PowerShell commands or the Microsoft Teams administration center. 

The function is defined by Microsoft as a “lightweight housekeeping approach to decrease storage clutter” caused by old recordings, which require roughly 400 MB of cloud storage per hour of recording on average. 

Microsoft Teams, a video conferencing platform, has over 250 million monthly active users, demonstrating that working from home and hybrid work environments are still famous worldwide in the aftermath of the coronavirus. Teams, like its rivals Zoom, Google Meet, and others, have been updating its platform on a regular basis since last year in order to gain a competitive advantage in the video conferencing sector.