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Stream to share a video and make it available to anonymous users
Hi,
Is there a facility in Stream to share a video and make it available to anonymous users so that it can be embedded in different websites.
Thanks
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
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Glad to see I'm not the only one finding Microsoft's subscriptions offerings to be a giant, compartmentalised mess. Almost every time I google an issue or functionality I'm seeing I run across thread just like this - lots of users asking for what most of us would consider to be bare-minimum, as advertised functionality, and then a rep from Microsoft acknowledging that it doesn't exist, can't be done, or isn't in their function set.
I found this thread particularly funny as the rep claims they are working on other functionality for live streaming (something a minority of users would probably ask for) over secured video hosting with anonymous viewing (something almost every organisation would want to use, which should be standard functionality, ad very much what is highlighted and promised in their marketing material).
All in all I do sympathise, it must be difficult trying to catch up to the bare basics Google figured out with their suite 5 years ago.
without this functionality, we can't use this product. Cancelling my subscription now... please let us know when you release it.
thanks
I was just wondering why Office Mix required us to upload our videos to Stream and then made them inaccessible to the people in which they were created for? Am I missing something in sharing these videos or is there no way to share them with my students?
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Cian is right, it's not available today.
We did however move it up a bit in our priority list. We are doing some internal planning reviews of public anonymous access today. Hoping that development starts on this in next couple of months if everything goes well.
Idea is the same as we mentioned last time. You could mark a video as public anonymous and grab an embed code to put on public site. Users don't need to log in to see the video.
There will likely be a public streaming quota that this consumes, so you'd get some amount of public streaming included in your licensing but if you need more each moth you'd have to buy add-on.
I would like to just share my frustration that this is not available yet.
- Marc Mroz
We would all love to have this feature ready to be used. We've started technical design on this feature. I'm hoping we are able to start coding against this in Q3. Sorry!
No, not currently. External sharing is something that's going to be worked on but not something we will see for a while, from what I gather. Worth keeping an eye out on https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-roadmap?filters=%26freeformsearch=stream for updates.
Also, null null see this response for a few more insights:
