Microsoft Skype for Business – Retention of Meeting Content

Customers using Skype for Business Online can upload content to a Skype for Business meeting as attachments, such as PowerPoint presentations, OneNote files, and other files. Attachments are kept for a specific retention period before being deleted.

Period of Content Retention:

The retention period for content that has been uploaded to a meeting is as follows:

• One-time meeting Content is retained for 15 days starting from when the last person leaves the meeting.
• Recurring meeting Content is retained for 15 days after the last person leaves the last session of the meeting. The retention timer resets if someone joins the same meeting session within 15 days.
• For example, assume a Skype for Business meeting is scheduled to occur on a weekly basis for one year, and a file is uploaded to the meeting during the first instance. If at least one person joins the meeting session every week, the file is retained in Skype for Business Online servers for the entire year plus 15 days after the last person leaves the last meeting of the series.
• Meet Now meeting Content is retained for 8 hours after the meeting end time.

Note: If a user is unlicensed or disabled in Active Directory (that is, if msRTCSIP-userenabled=False) with DirSync, and is then re-licensed or re-enabled, meeting content is not retained.

Meeting Expiration:

Users can access a specific meeting after the meeting has ended, subject to the following expiration time periods:

• One-time meeting - Meeting expires 14 days after the scheduled meeting end time.  
• Recurring meeting with end date - Meeting expires 14 days after the scheduled end time of the last meeting occurrence.  
• Meet Now meeting - Meeting expires after 8 hours.