Microsoft listens: Teams users will get relief from unwanted emails soon

Lots of Microsoft Teams users have been complaining about receiving far too many unnecessary emails. Microsoft has now listened to the criticism. Starting June 1st of this year, users will no longer receive automatic Teams emails about expired meeting recordings.

People who want to continue receiving these emails will need to change a new setting that will be added shortly. More information about the change is available in Microsoft’s announcement post.

Here’s what’s changing:

Starting June 1st, we will stop sending email notifications for expired Microsoft Teams meeting recordings. We are making this change due to complaints we received from many customers about the high volume of notifications which they deemed low value. This change allows us to respect your preferences while ensuring critical communications remain accessible. Recording expiration and deletion policies remain unchanged and items that expire will be deleted even when notifications are not being sent.

If you want to keep receiving those notifications:

For those customers that would like to continue receiving email notifications, we will create a new setting and make it available before June 1st. This will be a per-tenant setting. We will send another message center post once this setting is available and update our documentation in this discussion and on our support page.

You’ll still get other email notification types, but this could be a good first step towards minimizing the amount of Teams emails we have to suffer.