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Microsoft Stream licensing in O365
I see that Stream Plan 1 allows you to upload videos.
If we have users that just need to VIEW videos (but they won't be doing any uploading), does that mean no Plan 1 license is needed for them (or any license for that matter)?
- This is correct. Every user needs a license to access Microsoft Stream. If you are a part of Office 365, Stream is present in Kiosk SKU which does not allow uploading. Here are the licensing details which lists the capabilities available in each O365 SKU. https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-license-overview/
If you are interested in the Stream Standalone Plan 1, outside of Office 365, then as an admin you can control which users can upload content to your stream portal. Here is the link to the article to do that - https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-restricting-uploaders/.
However, all users will need to have a Stream license in either case.
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I think https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-assigning-licenses/:
"Employees of your organization can't use Microsoft Stream service until their accounts have been licensed. "
I take that to mean even to view videos in Microsoft Stream requires a licence either standalone or https://stream.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/stream-license-overview/ in any of the enterprise plans. I am sure I'll be corrected if that isn't quite right.
- This is correct. Every user needs a license to access Microsoft Stream. If you are a part of Office 365, Stream is present in Kiosk SKU which does not allow uploading. Here are the licensing details which lists the capabilities available in each O365 SKU. https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-license-overview/
If you are interested in the Stream Standalone Plan 1, outside of Office 365, then as an admin you can control which users can upload content to your stream portal. Here is the link to the article to do that - https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/stream-restricting-uploaders/.
However, all users will need to have a Stream license in either case.So for clarity,
while every users will need to have a Stream license does this mean someone such as an external user with personal email (ie not a company domain email address) can still have access to the videos provided a Stream Licence has been purchased and registered?
Or would they have to have the same domain ending email address which would mean a double purchase of both an email address and a Stream Licence is required
Thank you,
Paul
