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Stream Storage
@Bhowell for preview, the product is completely free and separate from Office 365 so no usage will impact your SharePoint tenant storage.
Also, it's not built on SharePoint so those constructs won't work with Microsoft Stream. If you are an Office subscriber you can continue to use Office 365 Video and at a future date once we have more details on our integration with Office 365, we can talk more to admin capabilities like management, etc.
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Hi @Marc Mroz - any updates on admins being able to track how much storage we are using?
Adrian Hyde - Yes we are finishing up development and testing now so the Stream Admins can see how much overall storage quota is being used and be notified when reaching x% of the limit.
See this screen shot from our development environment.
Speaking of which - what will happen if the O365 Video migration takes us over our quota?
If you happen to go over the Stream quota by virtue of us migrating all your videos from O365 Video to Stream, we'll just bump up your allowed storage quota so that you don't exceed the limit. You'll obviously need to buy more storage quota soon on Stream if that happens and you want to keep uploading more videos.
Thanks for the information - that is helpful.
Do you imagine that this default storage allocation will be bumped up each year, similar to what happens with SharePoint/OneDrive/Exchange ?
And let me share some advice. Hopefully you did not model the purchase of additional space after the SharePoint model. Most large enterprises do not buy things via the web portal, and it took literally months of going around in circles for the Microsoft people to figure out how to discount and provide additional storage under an existing Enterprise Agreement.
Mike WareAny insight how to purchase additional storage on the customer's Enterprise Agreement is very helpful. Customer needs to use a PO not a Credit Card.
All info is helpful - thanks
- thanks for the update!
- Marc Mroz
FYI... The admin feature to show the Stream storage quota used/available is now live in Production.
If logged in as Stream admin, go to your profile picture > Admin settings > Usage details you'll see a simple read out of how much storage you have and how much you used.
- Marc Mroz
I don't know for sure that the storage allocation will bump up each year but it is highly possible this will change over time like it does for other O365 apps. Our intention is to have enough default storage that the majority of customers don't have to worry about it, as such we'll be monitoring and looking at how much is getting used and what are costs to run the service are and adjust where needed.
I think the only option we do have is to offer the add-on storage like the add-on storage for SPO is via the Office commerce system. We may have to go through similar pains to get discounts, etc applied. Sorry.
- or CSP please ;)
