Zoom & Microsoft Teams video recordings data retention

A one-year data retention schedule for Zoom and MS Teams video recordings is coming October 2023.

This data retention schedule, issued by UBC’s Records Management Office, will affect all faculty, staff and student employees at both UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan campuses.

  • At this time, only video recordings created in Microsoft Teams and Zoom are affected.
  • Faculty and staff only need to take action if they want to retain recorded video for longer than a year.
    • To retain content, you can move the video to Kaltura, UBC’s enterprise video storage solution, or to OneDrive for personal storage.

In October 2023, any video recordings that are more than one year old will be automatically destroyed.

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For all questions, concerns or other feedback regarding this policy, please contact UBC Records Management.