Forum Discussion
Can Channel owners be changed?
I can't find a way to make another user an owner of an already created channel.
What happens to a channel when their owner leaves the organization? Even if it continues working it looks pretty lame to show the owner as someone who is gone - especially when I embed the channel on a Sharepoint page.
You are correct we do not have a way to change the channel owner. We display the person that created the channel originally.
For group channels any of the contributors to the group can change channel settings/add/delete them.
But for companywide channels only the person who created the channel and the Stream Admins can change infoabout or delete the channel.
This isn't ideal, I agree with you.
Could you add your ideas about what we should do with channel onwners/creators to the Stream Ideas forum so others can vote/comment on them?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeas
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
You are correct we do not have a way to change the channel owner. We display the person that created the channel originally.
For group channels any of the contributors to the group can change channel settings/add/delete them.
But for companywide channels only the person who created the channel and the Stream Admins can change infoabout or delete the channel.
This isn't ideal, I agree with you.
Could you add your ideas about what we should do with channel onwners/creators to the Stream Ideas forum so others can vote/comment on them?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeas
- Added! This is a pretty major requirement especially in a business with over 10,000 staff.
- Marc Mroz
Today with companywide channels there isn't an option to assign a new owner/creator.
We are looking at moving away from the current model of companywide channels over the coming quarters. The new concept would be that all channels would be inside of a group. We do allow multiple owners on a group already so that would solve this issue.
With making all channels be inside a group we'll add a new concept "Stream only groups" as well. With this you can pick if a group is tied to an O365 Group or if it's just a group in stream only not connected to O365.
I can see this question was asked quite some time ago (back in 2017).
May I please request an update, will this feature be added to the change roadmap for 2019?
Is the ability to change the owner available now via PowerShell?
Thank you for your time.
Tyler
I agree with Tyler_OConnell about a status update, particularly that it seemed to have some immediate attention. Any news, Marc Mroz?
Bill BlaisI had contact with our Premier Support Engineer @Microsoft. They say still not available...
- Would be really useful to assign more then one owner as well for that very reason.. Or at least be able to reassign ownership. With 0365 as IT Admins you were able to change owners very easily - the new 'DIY' stream model isn't really how our business works so will be interesting to see how we can make channels for others and re-assign ownership
- Another reason I continue to advocate for the O365 Video model in Stream. Having a stream channel as part of an O365 Group is an ok feature, but at the end of the day it should not be the primary mechanism, Video Portals are majority curated things. 'diy' as you put it has pros, but lots of cons as well, our organization doesnt work like that either.
I agree with Brent Ellis, here. Connecting to a group is definitely a good feature, but it should not be the requirement -- nor should the only other option be 'companywide'. I can imagine a situation where Marc Mroz's point of a 'Stream only' group might answer this, but without more details can't be sure.
