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Video to Stream migration
Hi Marc Mroz - I know you guys are working hard to get Video moved to Stream.
We've started to think that it may be better to migrate our Video content ourselves to avoid any unexpected channel col...
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Microsoftjcgonzalezmartin is correct until we have a Stream API there really is no way to get content into Stream in bulk other than download and re-upload, sorry.
I can post instructions on how to get to the backend document libraries for a channel and how you can use windows file explorer to download the videos in bulk for a channel. But it would be a manual process of download and re-upload.
We are looking for about 10-20 customers who would be interested in being the first customers to migrate even before we have a self-service UI to do it. If you wanted to explore that option you'd still go through the migration code, but if you cleaned up and changed/deleted renamed stuff in O365 Video it would be migrated over like that.
Marc,
Accessing the backend document libraries is quite straightforward and even download the videos in automatic way (using CSOM)...the problems happens when uploading to Stream due to the lack of Stream API
Accessing the backend document libraries is quite straightforward and even download the videos in automatic way (using CSOM)...the problems happens when uploading to Stream due to the lack of Stream API