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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 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.
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One way I've found is to set up a Team with guest users. You can then add a Stream Channel to that Team and then you're able to share.
Quentin_Fisher Just as an FYI, even if you have access to the Teams channel as a guest, the stream channel tab won't load. It'll just show a "Failed To Load Channel, Please Try Again" message.
- I just want to add that I also am dying for this feature to be added. At the moment I am considering using a different product such as Loom, just so I can share with clients as well as my team, in an easy, non convoluted way. Even if I have to pay.
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.
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 🙂
- 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.
Patrick_lky This is soooo crazy. How can we get Microsoft to make this change ASAP and make stream video's public?
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.
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 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.
- Any update on this? Is this now possible out of the box? I don't want to download it and upload it to youtube. We are in 2022!
Andreas_Huber This functionality won't be coming to Stream as Stream (classic) is being now phased out. With Stream functionality being slowly migrated over to SharePoint. They are now calling the old Steam "Classic" and the new one https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream. MS Teams meetings already now save to OneDrive/SharePoint instead of Stream (classic). Which then allows for sharing with external users. I haven't seen the new Stream on SharePoint roll out to any environments I have access to so not really sure how it looks/functions, but my guess is there is a new SharePoint Stream site template and video web part features. In the meantime, I'd recommend just moving away from Stream (classic) and hosting your videos in a SharePoint site, at least anything that needs to be shared externally. While you wait for the new Stream to fully roll out.
The roadmap in Q4 is solid or not? Since we still can't find this in the O365 roadmap site.
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.
Cian Allner
I don't understand, because external users that are invited can use all the chat features, so can't be difficult to also allow permission to view the embedded recording from same Teams meeting windo?vincentacloudthe challenge is that the videos are stored in Stream which is effectively part of SharePoint online. If your organisation has restricted external file sharing from SharePoint then it is difficult to make videos of Teams meeting available without opening up the sharing of other files from SharePoint.
