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Migrating Videos Created by Now Deleted Users
MicrosoftJPALM - See the "Orphaned" rows in the tables here for more details on users who aren't in the organization anymore:
https://learn.microsoft.com/stream/streamnew/understand-the-tool#containers--default-destination
Right now, the Public Preview version of the migration tool doesn't discover this "orphaned" content.
But in an upcoming improvement to the tool we'll bucket all the orphaned videos together as a single container and you can pick a SP site or ODB to migrate those orphaned videos into.
Right now, the only way to get these to migrate is to video by video add a new person or group as editor of them, so they get bucketed into an active container.
JPALM : Orphaned videos or videos that don't have owner will satisfy the following criterion and you can identify these from the Stream video report (mentioned here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/migration-details#stream-classic-video-report ).
1. The 'State' column should be either 'Processing' or 'Completed'
2. They should be published or 'Published' date should be not null
3. 'Container id' value for such videos will be null
- While the tool will bring the capability to migrate such videos. We would advise you to look at such videos and migrate only if they are being watch. Our aggregate level data tell us that video that are being watched usually end up with a group or user owner, even if the uploader leaves the organization.
If you still have orphaned videos that are being viewed, a hack is to assign owners to these videos manually in Stream (Classic), but this could work when you have a small number of videos.