On friday I have recorded a meeting and unable to set expiration-no now unable to recover. Please help to get it back recover it.

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On friday I have recorded a meeting and unable to set expiration-no now unable to recover. Please help to get it back recover it.

Fatima, Yasmeen (CNE) 0

On Friday I have recorded a meeting and unable to set expiration-no now unable to recover. Please help to get it back recover it. I have request to get it back

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Answer 1

Dear Fatima, Yasmeen (CNE),

I understand your concern. To better understand the situation, could you please clarify:‌

Is this a channel meeting or a non-channel meeting? If it was a channel meeting, are you the team owner or do you have owner-level permissions for the channel?
When was the recording last accessible?
Was the meeting recording stored in OneDrive or SharePoint?‌
Do you see the recording in the meeting chat, and if so, what happens when you click it?
Are you receiving any error messages? If yes, could you share a screenshot or the exact wording? (Remember to remove any personal information before sharing)

In this case, I recommend following the suggestions provided in the AI answer above and checking whether the recording is still available in the meeting chat, OneDrive/SharePoint, or the Recycle Bin.

Non-channel meeting recordings are automatically stored in the organizer's OneDrive for Business. Channel meeting recordings are stored in the channel's SharePoint site.

Meeting recordings expire after a period of time set by your IT admin. Organizers can change recording expiration dates. When a recording expires, it will move to the recycle bin where the recording was saved. For reference: Meeting recording storage and permissions

To learn how to recover expired or deleted meeting recordings, see Restore deleted files in OneDrive or Restore items in SharePoint.
Recovering files is time-sensitive. Once recordings are deleted from the recycle bin, they can't be restored.

If you're using a work or school account, I recommend contacting your organization's IT administrator and asking them to check the second-stage (site collection) Recycle Bin in SharePoint/OneDrive. For reference: How do I find my Microsoft 365 admin? and Restore items in the recycle bin that were deleted from SharePoint or Teams

If the recording cannot be found there either, your administrator may need to open a support ticket with Microsoft for further investigation. For reference: Get support for Microsoft 365 for business

I hope the information shared is helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Looking forward to your update.

Note: As this is a public community forum, no one here has access to your tenant or files and cannot directly restore the recording.

Fatima, Yasmeen (CNE) 0 Reputation points

2026-10-11T13:19:42.71+00:00

I have scheduled Meeting with my teammates and it was saved in Onedrive and I was the Organiser to share an invite and in chat I could find it was recorded but when I open it getting this-You might not have access to the recording, or it might have been deleted or expired. If it exists, request access from the owner. Attached screenshot for the reference.
Elena-VH 2,130 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-10-12T15:34:53.8666667+00:00

Dear Fatima, Yasmeen (CNE),

I understand your concern. However, if you were the meeting organizer and are now seeing the message "You might not have access to the recording, or it might have been deleted or expired. If it exists, request access from the owner," it is possible that the recording has been deleted, moved, expired, or that the permissions have changed.

Can you find the recording file in your OneDrive (My Files > Recording Folder)? If not, also, please check your OneDrive Recycle Bin and the second-stage Recycle Bin in case the recording was accidentally deleted.

If you can find the recording file in your OneDrive, could you open it from there?

Moreover, are your teammates able to open the recording, or do they receive the same error message?

However, if you cannot see the recording in your OneDrive or cannot access the recording, since you are using a work/school account, I recommend contacting your Microsoft 365 administrator. They can check whether the recording still exists in OneDrive or SharePoint, verify the file permissions, and determine whether the recording can be restored. For reference: How do I find my Microsoft 365 admin?

For detailed information and instructions, please ask your IT Admin to refer to these articles: Compliance and Manage Teams recording expiration policy

If necessary, they can also open a support ticket with Microsoft for further investigation. For reference: Get support for Microsoft 365 for business
Elena-VH 2,130 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2026-10-13T15:54:25.4933333+00:00

Dear Fatima, Yasmeen (CNE),

I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to check in and see if there is any update from you.

Answer 2

Restore the recording immediately from the meeting organizer’s OneDrive recycle bin, or from the channel’s SharePoint recycle bin if it was a channel meeting.

For a regular, non-channel meeting

The recording is normally stored in the meeting organizer’s OneDrive, even when another participant started the recording.^1^

Ask the meeting organizer to:

Open Microsoft Teams on the desktop or web.
Select OneDrive from the left navigation.
Select Recycle bin.
Find the recording, select it, and choose Restore.
Check OneDrive → My files → Recordings for the restored file.^2^

If using OneDrive on the web instead:

Sign in with the organizer’s work or school account.
Select Recycle bin.
Select the recording.
Select Restore.^3^

You cannot restore the recording from your own OneDrive if it belongs to another organizer.

For a Teams channel meeting

Channel recordings are stored in the channel’s SharePoint site.^1^

A channel owner or member with edit permission should:

Open the relevant channel in Teams.
Select Files and then More → Open in SharePoint.
In SharePoint, select Recycle bin from the left navigation.
Select the recording and choose Restore.^4^

If the recording is not in the recycle bin

Ask the Microsoft 365 or SharePoint administrator to check the second-stage/site collection recycle bin. A recently deleted SharePoint item may still be recoverable there.^5^
Work or school OneDrive items are normally recoverable for up to 93 days, unless the administrator changed the retention setting. Once purged from the recycle bins, an expired recording cannot be recovered.^6^
If your organization applied a Microsoft Purview retention policy, ask its compliance administrator to check the Preservation Hold library. End users cannot access that library.^7^
If the meeting chat shows that the recording failed to upload, use its Retry upload or Download option immediately. Failed uploads remain in temporary storage for 21 days; after permanent deletion from temporary storage, they cannot be recovered.^8^

Restoring an expired recording clears its expiration date, so the same meeting-expiration setting will not delete it again.^7^

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