BY:
Salvatore Nicci
Technology Analyst / Reporter
PROJECT COUNSEL MEDIA
23 June 2021 (Brussels, Belgium) – Here is an interesting development in search. We learn from a very brief write-up at MS Power User that “Microsoft Search Will Soon Be Able to Find Teams Meeting Recordings Based on What Was Said.” It occurs as the company moves MS Teams recordings to OneDrive and SharePoint. The writer of the report notes:
“Previously, Teams meeting recordings were only searchable based on the Title of the meetings. You will now be easily able to find Teams meeting recordings based on not just the Title of the meeting, but also based on what was said in the meeting, via the transcript, as long as Live Transcription was enabled. Note however that only the attendees of the Teams meeting will have the permission to view these recordings in the search results and playback the recordings. These meetings will now be discoverable in eDiscovery as well, via the transcript. If you don’t want these meetings to be discoverable in Microsoft Search or eDiscovery via transcripts, you can turn off Teams transcription.”
This is a handy feature. It does mean, however, that participants will want to be even more careful what they express in a Teams meeting. Many corporations have advised their staff (and law firms have advised their clients) that an inappropriate utterance will be just a search away.
NOTE: as we noted in a previous post Zoom already offers similar functionality if you enable audio transcription and hit “Record” before the meeting, and those that need searchable transcripts of Clubhouse audio chats simply need to sync with Rev or HappyScribe.
