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Microsoft Stream a part of Office 365 Business Premium?
Hello Stream Community,
Is Stream a part of Office 365 Business Premium or are there additional costs? I just want the base model that I can share videos, not something that have face recognition or translates who is talking. When I am in my admin portal it shows Unlimited Licenses available for Stream. I plan to use this for SharePoint videos for others at work to see. Let me know!
Hi Brian, no it's not included "Microsoft Stream is not included in the Business Premium or Business Essentials plans" but it is available as a standalone offering as well. More details are here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview.
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A big update according to the Office 365 Roadmap (Feature ID: 33019) "Microsoft Stream available in Office 365 SMB"
"Microsoft Stream will be available by default in all Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business plans."
So it looks like this could be changing soon, which would be great news, expanding the availability of Microsoft Stream to more customers!
This would be HUGE - I can find no definitive info online about it though. Any MS team members here who can confirm that Stream is officially included in O365 Business Premium? If so, what are the limits?
According to the revised https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview the Business Essentials and Business Premium plans of Stream would be on par with what you get on Education A1. The most noteworthy omission of features would be the creation of live events, both through Stream directly or through Teams.
Coupled with the inclusion in Office 365 of some features previously exclusive to Stream Plan 2 (face detection and transcript search), the Business Essentials and Premium version of Stream seems pretty decent, and could work for the vast majority of organizations.
Hi guys,
In a recent Microsoft Mechanics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvnKmQPw8g it was mentioned that Stream is "most recently available in our small business plans too", which I understand means Business Essentials and Business Premium. But aside from this brief reference to the feature's inclusion in more plans, there is no information anywhere.
Did Jeremy Chapman spill the beans too soon or was he referring to the ability to purchase Stream plans alongside Essentials and Premium?
I just heard that too.
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
We announced on 7/12 that the AI features (speech to text transcript and face detection) will move down to all the Enterprise, Frontline, Education, and Stream Plan 1 licenses.
AI-powered features available to more customers
As part of our commitment to empower people and organizations with AI, we are expanding the availability of intelligent features in Stream, including:
- Speaker timelines that use facial detection to identify who is talking, so you can easily jump to a particular speaker in the recording.
- Speech-to-text and closed captions that capture the event in a readable form and make the content more accessible for everyone
- Transcript search and timecodes that let you quickly find moments that matter in a video.
Later this quarter, these features will become available in all enterprise, firstline and education plans of Office 365, as well as Stream Plan 1.
But we haven't announced any changes to the Small Business licenses.
We in the product group have been advocating for this business planning change in the past along with the change to push down the AI features to all enterprise/edu licenses. The AI licensing change happened, so it's still possible for the small business license change to happen too, but it hasn't happened yet.
Hi Brian, no it's not included "Microsoft Stream is not included in the Business Premium or Business Essentials plans" but it is available as a standalone offering as well. More details are here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/license-overview.
Thanks for confirming. Just brief follow up. Is Office 365 Video then included? Just seeing what options I have to use video in the new SharePoint pages.
Office 365 Video doesn't come with Office 365 Business Premium either. If you are looking at the different permutations, it's worth checking out the https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-platform-service-description.aspx.
