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Hemat Maheshwari
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Nov 18, 2018

Stream - Managing Deleted User: What is a "general bucket"?

As per this:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/managing-deleted-users    "Once the user name of a deleted user is removed from Microsoft Stream, any videos/channels/comments created by that...
Marc Mroz's avatar
Marc Mroz
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Nov 20, 2018

Ashish Chawla can you explain how this works more for deleted users via the newer management settings for users?

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      Marc Mroz
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      Jan 02, 2020

      Rebecca Hoffman  - I'm not 100% sure as I've not tried this flow (I can try it out today in a test tenant to see if I can explain better), but my guess is that when you run through the flow described in the help doc to clear out a deleted user from Stream for GDPR (or other reasons), Stream won't know about that user anymore and it will assign a generic / fake user ID in the place of the actual user ID. My guess is that this means that all videos where you delete out the user through these screens will all go to the same generic / fake user ID.  

       

      I don't know what this looks like in the UI or what string we display for this generic / fake user ID, but I'm sure it's some generic string. 

       

      Do you have a more specific question about deleted users? I don't think this "general bucket" described in the help doc has much impact. 

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