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External Sharing with Stream or Video
I teach kindergarten students and need the ability to give them easy access to videos I've prepared. I usually do this by creating a QR code for them to scan, but for this to work I need the ability...
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Typically external videos feature request come in 2 flavors.
1. Pure public / anonymous video - where anyone with a link / embed code can watch the video without logging in.
Idea in the forums for Public / anonymous video: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/Public-videos/idc-p/93045#M652
2. Guest users - Where you type in the email of a person you want to share with and they have to login in some way with Org ID or MSA to see a video.
Idea in the forums for guest users: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/External-Guests/idc-p/95557#M663
Can you tell me if there is an official feedback link where users interested in this upcoming feature can keep track of the latest status of the enhancement? Is it in "User Voice"?
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
MicrosoftWe track all the ideas from all of you here on the MS Tech Community in the "Ideas" section.
Typically external videos feature request come in 2 flavors.
1. Pure public / anonymous video - where anyone with a link / embed code can watch the video without logging in.
Idea in the forums for Public / anonymous video: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/Public-videos/idc-p/93045#M652
2. Guest users - Where you type in the email of a person you want to share with and they have to login in some way with Org ID or MSA to see a video.
Idea in the forums for guest users: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/External-Guests/idc-p/95557#M663
Teams has recently expanded its capabilities for guest users to have non AAD accounts. How does this relate to Stream? Stream has always been an AAD account access only product, will we be able to open this up to non AAD guest accounts?
- What is the roadmap/timeline for Stream to have external viewing access?
- Marc Mroz
We are starting work now for public anonymous - where you can mark a video is public, grab an embed code and put it on a public place, where anyone can access. After that we'll start looking at named authenticated guest users, but I'm not sure if we'll get to named guests this year yet or not. We'll revaluate for Q3/Q4 to see if we have time.
Brian Clayton - The guest support in Teams isn't related to Stream at all. Guest users won't have access to the content in Stream until we do similar support as Teams did.
Any update to allowing External Guest users access to Stream? Almost all the other O365 services now support external access and Teams has done a great job of providing the ability to switch tenancy.
Similar need to enable partners to view videos.
For those looking for work around, only option I've found it to upload to a document library in SharePoint then embed on a page.
I wanted to ask if anyone knows information on the migration from Office Mix to Stream. Currently, my company uses this for a training tool which we embed into ProProfs. It works brilliantly. However, we have started the migration of our mixes and the proprofs page will not play the video via Stream. It asks you to log in. The problem is we are a small non-profit with about 30 office accounts while we have about 150 more independent contractors (without Office accounts) which need access to these trainings. I am very concerned as everything I am reading says this is not possible but that has to be wrong. Why would you get rid of Officemix if the capabilities are not ready in the new system? I need help!! Please. Is there a way to make the videos available either to the public or to be used by asking someone to sign in if you have shared it with their personal email address which is not an office account?
- Marc Mroz
Kirsten Boone - Unfortunately we don't have all the features that Office Mix has in Microsoft Stream. At this point in time it's not a full replacement for Mix. Over the course of time we would like to be able to do more of the things Mix could do in Stream, but as you said right now we don't.
In particular sharing Stream videos with people who are external to your organization is on our backlog/roadmap to do in Stream, but we don't yet know when we'll be able to pick up that work and do it. We are hoping for sometime the first half of 2018, but since we don't have engineers actively working on the project right now it's hard for us to make a commitment/promise.
Office Mix was a "beta" product and we've decided to eventually stop the service, I understand it's painful that we don't have a replacement for you at this point in time. Sorry.
