Force Microsoft Teams Policy Update
Issue
We have multiple conference rooms in our office and each room has a dedicated desktop, connected to a TV, and assigned a Microsoft Teams account. For meetings in these rooms, we would invite the room as an attendee. Then any user would use the Record feature in Teams to record the meeting. Because the room was invited, a copy of the recording was stored in the Chat for the room. This was a problem because there were sometimes sensitive topics being discussed that we don't want anyone who goes into the room to be able to look back at.
Solution
Through Microsoft Teams admin center:
1. Go to Messaging > Messaging policies
2. Create policy named "Room Account - No Chat" or similar so it is obvious what the policy does
3. Turn "Chat" Off and save
4. Go back to the Messaging polices screen and select your newly created policy
5. Click Manage users and select Assign users. Assign your desired conference/meeting rooms to this policy.
Note: Per Microsoft, the policy can take up to 24-horus to deploy to machines and be updated.