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Stream license needed for Stream on ODSP?
Hi all,
I'm trying to find out if the Stream license (in our case the feature "Microsoft Stream for Office 365 E5" in license "Office 365 E5") is needed for anything at all in the new Stream platform based on SharePoint and OneDrive. I looked everywhere and even asked Microsoft Support, but can't get a clear answer.
Basically I just want to remove the license from a bunch of users. This way I'd prevent them from using Stream (classic) since we don't want to use that platform anymore. But on the other hand I don't want to deny our users any current and possibly new features within the new Stream by not assigning the license. Can anyone provide some insights?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
- Nope! The existing Stream license is not used for Stream on SharePoint. At this point in time we have no plans to use that going forward. You just need license to SharePoint as all videos are stored in SharePoint and onedrive in the new system.
You can de license your users from Stream classic!
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- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Nope! The existing Stream license is not used for Stream on SharePoint. At this point in time we have no plans to use that going forward. You just need license to SharePoint as all videos are stored in SharePoint and onedrive in the new system.
You can de license your users from Stream classic!- Thank you!
- Marc Mroz
MarcelDeVries - Sooo... Based on your question I pushed a little further on our engineering team and did a test myself of disabling the Stream license for a user. It turns out that the upcoming setting to allow you to change the Stream tile to point to stream.office.com does still require the Stream license. I was wrong.
I'm working with our engineering team to determine if we want to keep it that way or ignore the Stream license when you have the Stream tile pointing at stream.office.com.
However, it's only the Stream tile in the app launcher that's looking at the existing Stream license. None of our other code is and we don't have plans for it to. So I was sort of right on my original answer.
