Forum Discussion
Stream to share a video and make it available to anonymous users
- Feb 13, 2020
Gustavo Moura de Sousa and everyone else. Thank you for your passion around this missing functionality. We still have external access (anonymous access, guest access, and federated access) as very high priorities, and once again have engineers actively working on these. We have obviously hit numerous starts and stops on our path to delivering anonymous access, not for lack of awareness or lack of desire to get this done, but due to other functionality that unexpectedly became a higher priority for regulatory and business reasons (e.g., GDPR, GOV cloud access, etc.). If you can use workarounds for now, thank for you doing so and your continued patience. If not, we understand, and hope you'll be willing to try Stream again once we have the functionality you need.
Please note that we are not actively monitoring the suggestions at https://stream.uservoice.com/, as that site is managed by an unknown third party, not Microsoft. To submit your feedback on anonymous playback and other features you need in Stream, please use https://aka.ms/streamideas. In particular, to add your support for anonymous public playback of Stream content, please upvote this idea: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-ideas/public-videos/idi-p/80159.
-Chris
Was this dropped? The roadmap item is gone.
- Marc MrozAug 18, 2022
Microsoft
Stream (Classic) doesn't support for this. Stream (Classic) will be retired likely in 2024. Retirement date coming later this year or next.
Our got forward solution is Stream (on SharePoint), which is just uploading videos to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams.
And that already supports anyone public links and guests like is possible for any other file.
So this is now supported but you have to upload your video to M365 not Stream (Classic).- TimHudson1525Oct 06, 2022Copper Contributor
That's not actually true. You still cannot embed the video into another page with anonymous access.
It even tells you this when you try:
"Only viewers with access will be able to view this video"
- Marc MrozOct 06, 2022
Microsoft
Oh sorry. Yes. We have anyone links with SharePoint and OneDrive but not anyone embed codes. I didn't realize this old thread was about embed, sorry!
- jordigrieraAug 08, 2022Copper Contributor
I guess Microsoft realises that it hasn't got the resources to compete with YT or Vimeo and just dropped the race. I think it's a mistake, but reality is tough. We won't wait any longer; it's over!