How can you delete a Teams meeting transcript via the Graph API?

Question

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to delete transcripts for Teams meetings via the Graph API without deleting the parent meeting. In Graph Explorer, I've already tried sending a DELETE request on the fetch transcript URL https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/onlineMeetings/{meetingId}/transcripts/{transcriptId} and on the transcript content URL https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/onlineMeetings/{meetingId}/transcripts/{transcriptId}/content and have gotten back 405 Method Not Allowed both times. I can delete the meeting but I want to just delete the transcript while keeping the meeting intact. Is there any way I can do this?

Answer 1

Hi @Tim D

Graph Api currently does not provide a method to directly delete Teams meeting recording files.

In Microsoft Teams, the current storage location of meeting transcript files is known as Exchange Online transcript or substrate transcript.

You can choose to use XML or EWSEditor to delete transcripts saved in Exchange Online.

Also, if your transcript is saved in OneDrive and SharePoint. You can choose to delete Teams meeting recordings along with their accompanying transcripts by using an auto-apply retention label policy that identifies these files from OneDrive and SharePoint transcript or OneDrive transcript.

For more information, see Delete Exchange Online and OneDrive transcript files

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Answer 2

To clarify for people who are facing the same problem as me: if your meeting transcripts are stored in OneDrive (like they are in my organization) you can absolutely delete them via the Graph API. In my organization, they're stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive under root/Recordings. The transcript doesn't contain a direct reference back to the meeting, but the file name will contain the meeting name. You should be able to determine whether or not a transcript file came from a meeting based on file name and file creation time, seeing as transcripts should be created soon after the start of a meeting. From there, it's a simple matter of calling the OneDrive file deletion Graph endpoint.

When reading the documentation for the EWS API, it seemed like transcripts being stored in Exchange are planned for deprecation in the near future. If you're reading this in the future, your transcripts are almost definitely in OneDrive somewhere.