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How to share video recording to external using Microsoft stream
- Mar 10, 2020
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.
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.
Dodge-1350
indeed, most people just can't be arsed (bothered) to vote, and many don't even know they can
... and they simply move on to another solution
- Doug PunchakSep 26, 2020Brass Contributor
There may be some light at the end of this tunnel. Looks like Stream is moving to SharePoint which means it may have the same external access capabilities
The New Microsoft Stream
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/new-stream
ZDNet: Microsoft Stream video users: Get ready to migrate (again).
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-stream-video-users-get-ready-to-migrate-again/ - Ronald EphardSep 25, 2020Copper Contributor
I did not know about the voting. Where do I vote? vincentacloud