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Microsoft Teams: New transcription policies for town halls and webinars

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  • Seen 28 Apr 2025 mid-April 2025
  • Seen 18 Apr 2025 early April 2025 → mid-May 2025
  • Seen 1 Apr 2025 late April 2025
  • Seen 21 Feb 2025 early March 2025, mid-March 2025 → early April 2025, mid-April 2025
  • Seen 24 Jan 2025 mid-February 2025, late February 2025 → early March 2025, mid-March 2025

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Updated April 28, 2025: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Before this rollout, for a Microsoft Teams town hall or webinar, the transcription behavior respects the current Teams meeting transcription policies. After this rollout, new transcription policies will be available for town halls and webinars to allow finer control over transcriptions. The policies may be changed in the Teams admin center or with Microsoft PowerShell commands. 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 473886. 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 late April 2025 (previously early April) and expect to complete by mid-May 2025 (previously mid-April). How this will affect your organization: These new transcription policies for webinars and town halls will determine whether transcription is allowed for a town hall or webinar. Town halls and webinars will no longer respect the Teams Meeting transcription policies. The new policies will be available by default for admins to configure. What you need to do to prepare: Before the rollout, we encourage you to use PowerShell commands to update the default values of the transcription 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 policy: Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -TranscriptionForTownhall Enabled Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -TranscriptionForWebinar 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

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  1. Updated April 18,28, 2025: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience. … 2025 (previously mid-April). General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-Aprillate April 2025 (previously early April) and expect to complete by late April 2025.mid-May 2025 (previously mid-April). How this will affect your organization: These new transcription policies for webinars …

  2. Updated April 1,18, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Before this rollout, for a … 473886. When this will happen: Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out earlylate April 2025 (previously early April) and expect to complete by mid-April 2025.mid-May 2025 (previously mid-April). General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and …

  3. Updated February 20,April 1, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your … is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473886. When this will happen: Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025. General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early April mid-April 2025 (previously early March) and expect to complete by mid-April 2025 (previously mid-March).late April 2025. How this will affect your organization: These new transcription policies for webinars …

  4. Updated January 24,February 20, 2025: We have updated the content.rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Before this rollout, for a Microsoft Teams … will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early MarchApril 2025 (previously mid-February)early March) and expect to complete by mid-Marchmid-April 2025 (previously late February).mid-March). How this will affect your organization: These new transcription policies for webinars …

    • Tags Feature update, User impact, Admin impact → Updated message, Feature update, User impact, Admin impact

    Updated January 24, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. Before this rollout, for a Microsoft Teams town hall or webinar, the … this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-Februaryearly March 2025 (previously mid-February) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously late February 2025.February). How this will affect your organization: These new transcription policies for webinars …

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