Teams Premium – Secure meetings

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Securing meeting information

In most organizations, there will be the need to protect information exchanged during specific meetings. These might be board meetings or very sensitive projects. Or even a kick-off meeting with a client, where you need to ensure that any screenshots of the recording cannot be misused.

Applying a sensitivity label to the content you’re sharing and thus preventing screenshots won’t help. When sharing that type of content, Microsoft Teams will just present the attendees of the meeting with a blank screen.

Microsoft Teams did not offer much in the way of information protection on that level. Even End-to-End Encryption [or E2EE] could only be used on a one-on-one level for chats and VoIP call. During Microsoft Ignite, the new Microsoft Premium licensing model was introduced. And amongst several of the key-features being presented were meeting security options.

In this blog, I want to explore some of these functions, without stepping into the licensing swamp. And yes: I too have questions regarding the need for such an add-on license. And why this is not included in Microsoft/Office 365 E5 or any other available add-on licensing packages. But in this blog, I will very likely touch on licensing issues from time to time. If you want to, you can skip to the wrap-up. There’s a short video on this subject.

Information in this blog:

1. Securing meeting information
2. What’s in the package for compliance?
3. Limitations – beware!!
4. Getting there – enabling the preview
5. Teams Premium from the Teams Admin Center
6. Working with labels
7. So how does this work?
8. Wrapping up