According to this Message Center Summary “New recording policies for town halls and webinars in Microsoft Teams will be rolled out starting late April 2025, with completion by late May 2025. Separate policies for town halls and webinars will be available. Organizations should update recording policies using PowerShell commands before and after the rollout.“

and also, the “What you need to do to prepare” section:

“Before the rollout, we encourage you to use PowerShell commands to update the default values of the recording policies for webinars and town halls“

Yes, but it doesn’t clearly say that the default values will be ENABLED both for RecordingForTownhall and RecordingForWebinar as that I experienced on one of my customers.

If you are in an organization that doesn’t allow Recording for Town Halls or Webinars for any reason (data privacy maybe?), and you didn’t check these values, the Town Halls and Webinars in your tenant could end up automatically being recorded, not good.

Check current value for all your Events policies

Get-CsTeamsEventsPolicy | fl *RecordingFor*

RecordingForTownhall : Enabled
RecordingForWebinar  : Enabled

Change it to Disabled in your Global policy if you need to

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -RecordingForTownhall Disabled

Set-CsTeamsEventsPolicy -Identity Global -RecordingForWebinar Disabled

Message Center posts should have clear information on the default values when new features arrive, especially if they pose any security or privacy risk.