Saturday, December 17, 2022

Microsoft Teams Premium SKU - Advanced meeting protection - End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Teams Meetings

 Advanced meeting protection


Advanced meeting protection in Teams Premium helps organizations better protect confidential and sensitive information during meetings. With new meeting option features like end-to-end encryption, watermarking, who can record meetings, and prevent copy/paste for Teams meetings chats, organizations can select the options that fit their meeting most appropriately. Additionally, E5 customers will be able to apply sensitivity labels to Teams meetings.

    i) End-to-end encryption (E2EE) option for Teams meetings


Microsoft 365 encryption technologies offer standard encryption for every Teams meeting. End-to-end encryption, or E2EE, is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes or parties to decrypt. With end-to-end encryption, you can add an extra layer of security to your meetings.

How to turn on the E2EE feature?

  1. Sign into the Teams Admin Center > Enhanced encryption policies.
  2. Create either the new policy, then for End-to-end meeting encryption, choose users can turn it on, and Save. OR modify the Global Policy.
  3. Once you’ve finished creating the policy, assign the policy to users, and groups.


How to use the E2EE feature in Teams Meeting?

When the policy is assigned to the user either a custom policy through direct assignment or group-based policy or Global policy the E2EE setting is not turned on by default. It's an end-user-level setting, the user has to turn it on for each meeting under the "Meeting Options".




How to confirm end-to-end encrypted meetings? 

Users will see the encryption indicator on the Teams meeting window. This indicator shows that the meeting is encrypted. If a Teams meeting is successfully end-to-end encrypted, both parties will see the end-to-end encryption indicator on the Teams meeting window. 

What features are supported in E2EE meetings?

Audio, Video, and Video-based screen-sharing are end-to-end encrypted.

What features are not E2EE supported?

Apps, Avatars, Filters, Chat, Q&A, and Reactions, Live caption and transcription, Recording, Together mode, Companion mode, Large gallery, and Breakout rooms are not end-to-end encrypted.

Is there any meeting size limitation?

Yes, the meeting size is limited to 50 users,  If the 51st person tries to join an E2EE meeting, they will be blocked from joining.

Are all the endpoints supported by E2EE meetings?

No, Only the Desktop and mobile.




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