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NickWalker666
Jul 12, 2023Copper Contributor
Migrating from Stream (Classic) Group channels
We have 21,000 videos in Stream (Classic). Most of our videos are in group channels rather than 'company wide' channels. We use group channels so the videos for a particular teaching department could...
karen_dredske
Jul 12, 2023Steel Contributor
Are you groups assigned as owners of those videos along with the user who uploaded them? If they are, then based on the hierarchy that the migration tool uses, ALL of the videos would be moved to the associated Microsoft 365 group SharePoint site. That will get them all moved at one time to one SharePoint site.
If the group has not been added as an owner to the videos, then you would have to manually add it to use this method. Unfortunately, we have been told that the Stream Classic platform doesn't won't allow any type of scripts to be run against it. :^( However, once you do this, then they all move cleanly as one container of videos into one SharePoint site associated with the group.
I hope this helps as I had to do this recently for a client.
If the group has not been added as an owner to the videos, then you would have to manually add it to use this method. Unfortunately, we have been told that the Stream Classic platform doesn't won't allow any type of scripts to be run against it. :^( However, once you do this, then they all move cleanly as one container of videos into one SharePoint site associated with the group.
I hope this helps as I had to do this recently for a client.
NickWalker666
Jul 14, 2023Copper Contributor
No the groups are not owners of the video because that would mean the students would be able to delete/edit them! I certainly don't want to add our students as owners of the videos.
- karen_dredskeJul 14, 2023Steel ContributorNick there is a difference between a group owning a video in Stream Classic and students belonging to a group as group members when it comes to migration. When you set a group in Stream Classic as the owner, then run the migration tool it will move the files to the associated SharePoint site of the group. What the students can do when the videos get to SharePoint depends on how you handle this. I would honestly, setup a document library called Videos in the SharePoint site, select all those videos and move them into that document library. I would set permissions on the Videos library to only give the students Restricted View rights to the library. I know it's an extra jump to have to make, but it's an easy one. Let me know if you need some help in how to adjust the permissions on the Videos library.
- NickWalker666Jul 17, 2023Copper ContributorThanks Karen. I was aware I could do this, but this still requires a lot of work from me. I've got to change the ownership of hundreds of videos manually (as you said in your first post). I've then got to migrate the videos and either deal with creating the permissions for each of the large number of sharepoints and moving the video files and do this relatively quickly in case students realise they are owners of the files. All of this requires a lot of micro-management and time. Whereas if the migration tool could migrate videos from a group channel this could all be done very quickly.
- karen_dredskeSep 08, 2023Steel ContributorNickWalker666 did you know that you can use the script that you can download to do this? The instructions are here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/migration-details#script-to-fix-permissions-on-stream-classic
I haven't used this yet, but it should work for your situation if you haven't solved this already.