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How to share video recording to external using Microsoft stream
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 https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/-this-video-isn-t-available-when-external-user-views-shared-stream-video-884c54e3-0d1b-4233-a07a-9c42502162ab 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.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream
TommyyanMicrosoft
jmd1980 I feel pretty painful to share video recordings captured in meetings. Can the new sharepoint version of stream address these?
here is details:
1. in a particular MSteams meeting, some attendince recorded the video. and the link is automatically shared for the meeting invitees, fine.
2. I shared this link to someone else, or I put the link in email or other document that shared with people. Internal MSFT employees. they cannot open the link. and there is NO privillege access request, No nothing. the story ends here.
3. I tried to contact the person who recorded the video to add me to allow download, so that I can download video and upload to somewhere else. I was told he does NOT know how to let me be able to download. again, the story ends here.
- So when MS Teams records meetings these are saved to the user's own OneDrive (whoever clicks the record button, yes that's always seemed odd to me and I wish it defaulted to the meeting organizer, but its whoever actually clicks the button). Then the file is set to shared with all meeting participants and link send to the meeting chat. If you copy and share that link it will only work for people with permission already. To then share with other people, its just like sharing anything from OneDrive. The person that owns that file needs to go into their OneDrive, to to "Recordings" find that recording open, and click "Share" to generate a new sharing link. That changes though if the meeting is associated to a Teams group channel, then it saves to the group files (SharePoint), which is better. As then anyone in the group can open and use the "Share" function to add permisons and generate sharing links for other people.
- Marc MrozBoth the person who clicks record and the organizer get edit rights on the file and can make a new share link and change permission on the file.
jmd1980 This actually doesn't solve the problem, but shifts the problem somewhere else. What is goin to happen to all the Stream content once it is removed from the apps? How will that transition be done since a lot of us have quite a bit of content in Stream?
- Yeah I know, I'm not affiliated with MS in any way so just sharing what I know / have read. But how it goes with MS. Something gets hyped up, half rolled out, then eventually retired and something else put in its place. In this case though I'm happy to see a consolidated into SharePoint as I didn't really like having a whole separate platform for video hosting that users seemed to never really pay much attention to. So if we can get the Stream feature into SharePoint, and if MS does it right (yeah asking a lot there) then could end up being the best of both platforms. And as Marc with MS below replied they do have migration tools available for moving content over. And I've been telling users (I'm a trainer) to just stop using Stream and start thinking about how you'd host your videos in SharePoint. At the moment I'll still take the better sharing and layout options in SharePoint over the missing features in Stream.
- Marc MrozWe are building a migration tool to move videos into SharePoint. The tool is not ready to use yet its just in private preview for a few customers:
Https://aka.ms/streammigration
We don't yet have a retirement date, but might have one set toward the end of the year.
