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Microsoft Stream a part of Office 365 Business Premium?
Hi Brian, no it's not included "Microsoft Stream is not included in the Business Premium or Business Essentials plans" but it is available as a standalone offering as well. More details are here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview.
A big update according to the Office 365 Roadmap (Feature ID: 33019) "Microsoft Stream available in Office 365 SMB"
"Microsoft Stream will be available by default in all Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business plans."
So it looks like this could be changing soon, which would be great news, expanding the availability of Microsoft Stream to more customers!
This would be HUGE - I can find no definitive info online about it though. Any MS team members here who can confirm that Stream is officially included in O365 Business Premium? If so, what are the limits?
According to the revised https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview the Business Essentials and Business Premium plans of Stream would be on par with what you get on Education A1. The most noteworthy omission of features would be the creation of live events, both through Stream directly or through Teams.
Coupled with the inclusion in Office 365 of some features previously exclusive to Stream Plan 2 (face detection and transcript search), the Business Essentials and Premium version of Stream seems pretty decent, and could work for the vast majority of organizations.
Yep, I noticed that it started showing up to our SMB users a while back. Initially thought it was the trial again, but Microsoft actual did push Stream out to all plans.
I have to say, I'm very happy to see this. I'd suggest Microsoft market it a bit better. Obviously for SMB users you are competing with other free options to host company videos. But Stream has some major advantages with Channel/Group controls at the tenant level, AI people recognition, and audio transcription. In my testing so far it works really well and for those IT Admins that already are on Office 365 this is a great addition to simplify things while adding some real value.
I'm also pleased with how they've split features with the P2/Enterprise product. It make a lot of sense. Working for a large Enterprise, who bought our SMB, I could see the live events being a real plus. What they currently do lacks all the nice advantages you would get with something like this, and I'm certain they are spending a LOT more when they host their "town halls" and other company events. This is something that most SMB's wouldn't require.
