Teams can now block meeting bots: it ships turned off
On 21 August Microsoft announced (MC1459141) that admins will be able to automatically block detected external bots in Teams meetings. We read the documentation for the ExternalBotAccessMode parameter: the word doing all the work is "detected", the new mode has to be assigned through policy, and it touches neither Copilot nor the assistant recording from your client's tenant. What actually decides where the transcript ends up — and when we would not switch it on.