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anonymous-user
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Jun 20, 2017

Where do I start: O365 Video or Stream?

My ogranization hasn't started using either video hosting platform yet, but we subscribe to O365. One of the introductory blogs said that subscribers should use O365 Video while non-subscribers shoul...
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anonymous-user
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Jun 20, 2017

Hi PhiRo,

 

 

 

As you read in the introductory blogs, Office 365 Video and Stream will be converged in the near future. Our guidance has been to continue using O365 Video for O365 E customers because of a number of reasons -

 

1. O365 Video is a GA service; Stream is still in preview.

2. O365 Video meets some of the compliance requirements; Stream (Preview) is not right now, but will be at GA timeframe.

3. There are some features as you mentioned - tagging people, statistics etc which are not in Stream yet.

 

For these reasons, we recommend folks to continue with O365 Video and once we start converging, your content will be moved over automatically. In building Stream, we took our learnings from O365 Video and tried to improve those - content organization into channels is one of those.

 

Given these, if you are comfortable using Stream in your organization, feel free to go ahead by all means. If you have more questions, you can reach me at ashishc microsoft com and I would be happy to setup a call and chat.

 

-Ashish

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    Marc Mroz
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    Jun 20, 2017

    Since this is an older migrated set of conversations, I just wanted to add an update on the lastest thinking between O365 Video and Stream as of Stream GA (6/20/17), for future reference.

     

    If you haven't started using O365 Video we'd reccomond starting with Stream. For further questions and breakdown comparision of Stream and O365 Video see this help article:

    https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-migrate-from-o365/

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