Saturday, December 17, 2022

Microsoft Teams Premium SKU - Advanced meeting protection - Add Watermark on the Shared content in Teams Meetings

Watermark provides a solution to protect the company's confidential artifacts shared during Teams meetings. Watermark adds viewing participant email IDs on top of the shared screen and/or video feed in the Teams meeting. 

How to Enable Watermark for Teams Meetings?

  1. Sign in to the Teams Admin Center > Meeting > Meeting Policy
  2. Either create a new policy or modify the existing custom or Global Policy, under the watermark section, Turn-ON the watermark for the Video / Content Share or both.
  3. Once you’ve finished creating the policy, assign the policy to users, and groups.

How to use the Watermark 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 Watermark 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".



When the meeting organizer enables Watermark for Shared content and Video feed, participants should see the watermark (their own email id) on the shared screen as well as on the video feed (camera content). Below is the in-meeting experience with Watermark enabled on a shared screen and video feed:


What are the Endpoints that support the Watermark feature?

Teams Client on Windows, Mac, Mobile, Microsoft Teams Room on Windows (MTRoW), and Surface Hub.

Feature limitations


  • Watermark is not available for Recording, PowerPoint Live, Whiteboard, Together mode, and Large gallery.
  • Users joining from unsupported platforms would only hear the audio with no content shown to them.
    • Unsupported platforms: 
      o Web and VDI will be an audio-only experience. 
      o For older clients such as CVI, MTRA, and T2.1, meeting participants will be able to join the meeting with audio/video capability without a watermark applied.

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