Forum Discussion
External Sharing with Stream or Video
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Typically external videos feature request come in 2 flavors.
1. Pure public / anonymous video - where anyone with a link / embed code can watch the video without logging in.
Idea in the forums for Public / anonymous video: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/Public-videos/idc-p/93045#M652
2. Guest users - Where you type in the email of a person you want to share with and they have to login in some way with Org ID or MSA to see a video.
Idea in the forums for guest users: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/External-Guests/idc-p/95557#M663
The only update they have given is :
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing the video to be embeded in a public website. Anyone in the world can view these external videos without a login. Stream admins will be able to control if this feature is enabled and who within the organization can make videos publicly available.
- Featured ID: 27728
- Added to Roadmap: 4/26/2018
- Last Modified: 1/14/2019
- Tags: Microsoft Stream
This is supposed to come to us in Q2 this year, but none of the Microsoft Team has given additional updates on the time frame yet. The fact that they did not have such a major functionality included in their product is just mind blowing, even worse that they've taken this long to correct it with little to no correspondence with customers.
Reference site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=stream#owRoadmapMainContent
Today appeared a new roadmap update:
Release: March CY2019
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing the video to be embeded in a public website. Anyone in the world can view these external videos without a login. Stream admins will be able to control if this feature is enabled and who within the organization can make videos publicly available.
Featured ID: 27728
Added to Roadmap: 4/26/2018
Last Modified: 2/21/2019
Tags: Microsoft Stream
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=stream
When will the ability to share streams video with public be available? Joris Desseyn
Hamited It is apparently on the roadmap for Q4: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-forum/how-to-share-video-recording-to-external-using-microsoft-stream/m-p/1219144
+1 on this feature.
I suspect they're not building it because public-sharing of a video implies unlimited access and there are bandwidth costs that Microsoft would have to absorb given Stream has no ad network.
