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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
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 Mroz
Microsoft
We 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.
