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Brass Contributor

Dec 14, 2023

Post Stream Classic migration analysis of video usage in a SharePoint site for Orphan videos

Will there be analytics per SharePoint site on video views? This would allow us to delete unviewed videos sometime in 2025 after redirect links are severed. We have a very large and complex organizat...

Marc Mroz

Microsoft

Dec 18, 2023

SteveUlrichTE - SharePoint site analytics already include video files so you can get some info per SP site. But I don't know that there is enough info to determine what you are looking for with the orphaned content or not.

See this for more info: View usage data for your SharePoint site - Microsoft Support

SteveUlrichTE

Brass Contributor

Dec 18, 2023

Thanks Marc for that info and link. Our current wish is that at some time in the future to delete Orphaned videos that have not been viewed after migration. So a report that we can turn into a script to delete unwatched videos.

JWiersem1925
Brass Contributor
Jan 11, 2024
SteveUlrichTE We are going to try Microsoft Purview with queries such as the one below. You can testdrive these queries in the SP Search Query Tool if you dont have access to Purview. You will receive only the videos you have access to then of course:

documentlink:"https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/*/Stream Migrated Videos/*" ContentType:Video ViewsLifetime<1 ViewsRecent:0 LastModifiedTime<=2022-01-01

OneDrive LCM
documentlink:"https://yourtenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/*/Documents/Stream Migrated Videos/*" ContentType:Video ViewsLifetime<1 ViewsRecent:0 LastModifiedTime<=2022-01-01