Teams' Intelligent Meetings Recap will soon be turned into an optional capability

Thanks to a new enhancement set to be introduced to the platform later this year, Teams’ meeting recaps, live captions, and transcriptions can be entirely disabled.

According to an entry to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the Redmond-based tech giant will expand the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ option to include the capabilities mentioned above as well.

The option will turn into ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meetings’ settings, and admins can disable it to forbid participants from copying the meeting chat, live captions, or any insights generated by the intelligent meeting recap.

Here’s what the entry says:

We are expanding the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap.

If you remember, last year, Microsoft Teams announced and released the AI-based Intelligent Meetings Recap capability, which allowed participants to quickly access a resume generated by AI based on the meeting that took place.

The resume includes the essential points of the meeting, a summary, recommended tasks and suggestions, and a timeframe for the conversation.

While disabling it is undoubtedly a pity for those seeking to access information more quickly; it’s also essential for security and privacy reasons. Participants in special or confidential meetings will not be able to access the information as easily.