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How to share video recording to external using Microsoft stream
Hi,
How can I share video recording to external using Microsoft stream?
I find myself as video owner cannot add more email addressed under Update Video Detail - > permissions.
Please advise.
Patrick_lky Hi, this isn’t possible at the moment, if your asking can you share videos externally, this is on the roadmap, due towards the end of the year (Q4) though:
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing people to view the videos without a login. Stream admins will be able to control if this feature is enabled and who within the organization can make videos publicly available.
Just to add, it’s not clear if the above feature will allow you to add external email address to provide access to particular guests only, you’d think that would be an option.
This link also provides a bit more context:
This error occurs because Stream can't currently share to external users.
To work around this issue, store the video in another location. For example, add the video to a SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business Library location that enables external sharing, and then share the video to the external users.
I have been following Featured ID: 27728 for over 2 years now, it was one of the reasons I signing up for O365, it's quite maddening to watch a feature update get pushed back and back and back and back, time and time again. I am a Digital Producer, I produce mostly bands and music talent, and my tenant is small. I have been using stream to document all of my recordings, but they are locked in a box, and I can't share without moving it around. it would be nice to get an actual answer about it, instead of being pushed to Featured ID: 27728... and having someone read... "oh, we are working on it", no your not, you just reading a rebuttal, Microsoft just keeps pushing it down the road... and will continue to.
Matt Haysagree. Microsoft needs to make it much easier to collaborate with third parties using Teams.
- It would be nice to have a choice to
seamlessly save videos to onedrive or stream.
Patrick_lky Yeah we really need this feature and its pretty silly that we don't. I get asked about this weekly from users and its crazy to people you can record a meeting in Teams but the guest users on the meeting can't view the recording. Just stupid.
- It seems insane that we have a record meeting feature, and then everyone spends hours trying to figure out how to share the video to others not in the meeting and can't.
Worse, it seems possible, but then after it's shared the recipient can't view it. It causes endless useless cycles across the organization. And worse still, the permissions vary, with items appearing and disappearing so people aren't sure where to look, because the obvious basic sharing is guaranteed to fail.
It's as if you're intentionally f****ng with people to encourage them to hate your product so they will use another video platform that works.
Patrick_lky Hi, this isn’t possible at the moment, if your asking can you share videos externally, this is on the roadmap, due towards the end of the year (Q4) though:
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing people to view the videos without a login. Stream admins will be able to control if this feature is enabled and who within the organization can make videos publicly available.
Just to add, it’s not clear if the above feature will allow you to add external email address to provide access to particular guests only, you’d think that would be an option.
This link also provides a bit more context:
This error occurs because Stream can't currently share to external users.
To work around this issue, store the video in another location. For example, add the video to a SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business Library location that enables external sharing, and then share the video to the external users.
Cian Allner please hurry with this feature... we are trying really hard to move away from Zoom but Microsoft lacking feature parity in Teams is making it very difficult. Sharing recorded videos with meeting participants either internally or externally is a total must... it should be easy to do too... downloading, uploading to onedrive/sharepoint, and then sharing is completely awful and not tenable.
You mention that workaround to share video to external is to first copy video on onedrive .. but how do you do that ?
Could find any resource that explain this.
thanks
Sang
Sure, I download the recording to my local drive or downloads and then I upload this to OneDrive in a public folder and provide a weblink for external users to access this file.
Kind regards,
Paul.
- Best Response? Why? Because it says the same we are hearing from microsoft now for years?
Not available but in development. That are some serious infos we never heard before. That sure is the best response ... telling us the same .... we are fed off hearing.
Patrick_lky This is soooo crazy. How can we get Microsoft to make this change ASAP and make stream video's public?
Hard to believe that this feature is still not available, for example, recording MS Teams sessions per default are stored on Stream and it is a big hassle now to share those recordings to attendees of the call that are outside your organisation, makes no sense to me.
Sigmund Brandstaetter
probably usual big mistake of product features designed without enough beta testing by actual users 🙂
Has this been resolved yet?
- Pernille-Eskebo -- any update on where this is in the dev process? Clearly, many businesses would benefit from easier external sharing options for video content through Stream. Since we're now almost in Q2 2021 (and you mention this enhancement request being dev complete at the end of Q4 2020), is there any update?
Has this been done? If not, when will this be available?We just started using this for internal videos and its fantastic, supper bummed that we cant share this externally . Especially since its been on the road amped for a long time. Looks like Microsoft used Bing Maps....
tmarchi I have read the thread of this question with interest as I am currently trying to share a video externally. I can share to an external email address with the link, which is password protected. However, I am having issues with the video not having sound once it is processed in Stream. It is a mp4 file which I am uploading into Stream. On the device I have shared it with, I have tried the Stream App but you have to have a MS account, which defeats the purpose and if I download the file, it still has no sound. I think it is more of an issue with the file going into Stream, rather than external sharing but would love any advise if someone has come across this please?
- My experience with this has been that a guest cannot view directly in Stream, but you can download your Stream videos (file type is WEBM) and upload them to your SharePoint site, where the same external users have permission to. I created a SP Library and added webpart to display the library on the homepage of the Sharepoint site. When the guest visits the SharePoint site, they can see and play the Stream videos within their browser. If you add the Stream webpart to your SharePoint site, the videos within that Stream webpart will not display for the guest. They get a big spinning wheel that will not give access to the videos. I'm disappointed because I wanted to use this in MS Teams when I added the stream tab there. I almost gave up on using Stream but read this thread and found I can leverage my Teams/SharePoint site and Team group permissions to still offer the videos this way. I know.... less than ideal but it works.
- If you can download the video and your company (or you) have a YouTube channel, share the video that way. That's what I ended up having to do, unfortunately.
As of 9/22/2020, the roadmap feature for this looks to have been marked as "CANCELED" but the details say it's because it is part of the new functionality for release December CY2020(?)
- Why was it marked as "CANCELED"?
- I don't see the ability to enable the feature in the Stream Admin area
- Do we have to wait until December to see if it's available?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Stream
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
(This item is being removed, as it is redundant with Microsoft Stream's new capabilities.) Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing people to view the videos without a login. Stream admins will be able to control if this feature is enabled and who within the organization can make videos publicly available.
Doug Punchak It really is quite ridiculous and very frustrating the strategy Microsoft has taken with regards to missing core functionality from the host of apps that exist in Microsoft 365. Apparently not enough people voted to have this core feature integrated, since that's how they decide to fix their apps these days. I don't know about you, but if my application was missing core functionality, I wouldn't need a vote count to determine if or when it should be fixed and integrated. I would much prefer they spend their limited resources and funding to fix the apps missing core functionality instead of preparing new fluff features and apps that no one asked for. I really don't have any other way to say it, but someone there has their head up their you know what.
