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What happens with O365 Tenants that have disabled O365 Video?
MicrosoftHi Robert - As of yesterday 6/20 Stream went GA and was enabled by default. As such the Stream tile is now showing up for users with any of the E/A/K Plans for O365.
We sent out an admin message center post about a month ago stating that Stream was coming and would be on be default.
Stream does not respect the O365 Video on/off flag as it's a separate service and we wanted customers to use/evaluate them independantly.
There are 2 options to disable Stream in the tenant.
1. Unlicense users - if you turn off the Stream service plan from under the E/A/K plan then the app launcher won't show Stream.
2. Block Stream's AAD ID - We don't reccomend this option as it could cause confusion in the future when a customer does want to start using Stream. But you can go into AAD for your tenant and block the Stream App ID. This will make Stream not work at all.
See these help article for more information:
https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-license-management/
https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-block-application/
- By the way, option 1 is not enough if any user types directly Stream url in the browser, correct?
- Marc Mroz
If the user is not licensed to Stream via the E/A/K plan, then we will block them from using Stream even if they typed in the URL.
The caveat here is that we will allow them to sign up for the free trial of Stream in the case that they typed in the URL directly. THe only why to stop that currently is to block ad-hoc sign-ups on your tenant (which will block ad-hoc sign ups to other services like PowerBI, Flow, etc).
- ...and this blocking has to be done at AAD level
Hello Marc,
Can you elaborate on what whether or not Microsoft has the ability to say to an O365 Admin the exact date and time when the icon should appear on their tenant?
I have a developer O365 tenant via MSDN/my.visualstudio.com subscription and do not recall getting anything like that. But, I am not assuming that a developer tenant behaves the same as a normal one either.
Kind regards,
Robert- Thank you for the clarification!
