How to enable Decisions enterprise app to integrate with transcripts via Graph API

Why this matters

• Microsoft has introduced tenant-level controls to give organizations flexibility over what can be retrieved for transcripts using Microsoft Graph API. This setting will control any application or Graph API usage to retrieve transcript information. 

• By default, the setting is released Off (Rolling out end of July 2026)

• In Decisions, this means that users who are allowed to use Decisions to create AI meeting Summaries, will in some cases not be able to create these summaries. 

Enable Microsoft Graph access to transcripts (Teams admin center)

• Ensure transcription is enabled for Teams meetings

  • Teams admin center → Meetings → Meeting policies → your policy (or Global) → Recording & transcription → set Transcription to On

• Enable transcript API access
  • Teams admin center → Meetings → Meeting settings → Transcript API access → Microsoft Graph access to On
  • Select Save to apply your changes
• Enable speaker attribution
  • Under Transcript API access select Configure
  • Set Include speaker attribution to On
  • Select Apply to save your changes

Speaker attribution - keep speaker names in your transcript

Speaker attribution is off by default. With it off the transcript still works but comes back without identifying who said what. AI Recap and AI Minutes use speaker information to attribute decisions, action items, and key points to the right people, so turning it on gives you more accurate, more useful summaries.

Microsoft documentation

• Manage transcript API access for Teams meetings (Microsoft Learn): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-transcript-api-access
• Get callTranscript (Microsoft Graph): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/calltranscript-get?view=graph-rest-1.0
• Microsoft 365 Message Center notice MC1393806
  • External source: https://mc.merill.net/message/MC1393806 (Message Center posts vary by tenant. Always use your tenant's Message Center as the source of truth)

FAQ

• Do I need to change anything in Decisions for this?

  • No. This is a Microsoft 365 setting in the Teams admin center, not a Decisions setting. Once your admin enables Microsoft Graph access to transcripts, AI Recap and AI Minutes continue to work as normal.

• When does this change take effect?

  • Microsoft's rollout begins in late June 2026, with enforcement from around late July 2026. The Message Center notice (MC1393806) lists an act-by date of 29 July 2026.

• Who can enable Teams transcript API access?

  • A Teams administrator. The setting is in the Teams admin center under Meetings, then Meeting settings, in the Transcript API access section.

  Will this affect where my meeting data is stored?
  • No. Decisions runs inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant and your meeting data stays there. This setting only governs whether transcript access is allowed through the Microsoft Graph API within your tenant.