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How to share video recording to external using Microsoft stream
Hi,
How can I share video recording to external using Microsoft stream?
I find myself as video owner cannot add more email addressed under Update Video Detail - > permissions.
Please advise.
Patrick_lky Hi, this isn’t possible at the moment, if your asking can you share videos externally, this is on the roadmap, due towards the end of the year (Q4) though:
Microsoft Stream: Public anonymous external video sharing
Allow individual videos in Microsoft Stream to be marked for external public access allowing people to view the 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.
Just to add, it’s not clear if the above feature will allow you to add external email address to provide access to particular guests only, you’d think that would be an option.
This link also provides a bit more context:
This error occurs because Stream can't currently share to external users.
To work around this issue, store the video in another location. For example, add the video to a SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business Library location that enables external sharing, and then share the video to the external users.
- file too large to share via OneDrive. useless.
kaiclubbe max file size for OneDrive is 250 GB.
Restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint - Microsoft Support
Patrick_lky - is this feature available yet?
Rmellor93 With the new Stream on SharePoint yes. Since it's just now leveraging OneDrive (personal videos) or SharePoint (group videos) to store the files. So you'd shared externally just as you would any other files with those services. But if still using the older Stream "Classic" then no and it won't ever since its basically end of life now.
- i have linked the stream channel to SharePoint & also emebbed specific stream video links & my external users are getting a log in error.
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- Just an update for anyone following this. This functionality won't be coming to Stream as Stream (classic) is being now phased out. With Stream functionality being slowly migrated over to SharePoint. They are now calling the old Steam "Classic" and the new one "Stream on SharePoint". MS Teams meetings already now save to OneDrive/SharePoint instead of Stream (classic). Which then allows for sharing with external users. I haven't seen the new Stream on SharePoint roll out to any environments I have access to so not really sure how it looks/functions, but my guess is there is a new SharePoint Stream site template and video web part features. In the meantime, I'd recommend just moving away from Stream (classic) and hosting your videos in a SharePoint site, at least anything that needs to be shared externally. While you wait for the new Stream to fully roll out. More info below:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream
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jmd1980 I feel pretty painful to share video recordings captured in meetings. Can the new sharepoint version of stream address these?
here is details:
1. in a particular MSteams meeting, some attendince recorded the video. and the link is automatically shared for the meeting invitees, fine.
2. I shared this link to someone else, or I put the link in email or other document that shared with people. Internal MSFT employees. they cannot open the link. and there is NO privillege access request, No nothing. the story ends here.
3. I tried to contact the person who recorded the video to add me to allow download, so that I can download video and upload to somewhere else. I was told he does NOT know how to let me be able to download. again, the story ends here.
- So when MS Teams records meetings these are saved to the user's own OneDrive (whoever clicks the record button, yes that's always seemed odd to me and I wish it defaulted to the meeting organizer, but its whoever actually clicks the button). Then the file is set to shared with all meeting participants and link send to the meeting chat. If you copy and share that link it will only work for people with permission already. To then share with other people, its just like sharing anything from OneDrive. The person that owns that file needs to go into their OneDrive, to to "Recordings" find that recording open, and click "Share" to generate a new sharing link. That changes though if the meeting is associated to a Teams group channel, then it saves to the group files (SharePoint), which is better. As then anyone in the group can open and use the "Share" function to add permisons and generate sharing links for other people.
jmd1980 This actually doesn't solve the problem, but shifts the problem somewhere else. What is goin to happen to all the Stream content once it is removed from the apps? How will that transition be done since a lot of us have quite a bit of content in Stream?
- Yeah I know, I'm not affiliated with MS in any way so just sharing what I know / have read. But how it goes with MS. Something gets hyped up, half rolled out, then eventually retired and something else put in its place. In this case though I'm happy to see a consolidated into SharePoint as I didn't really like having a whole separate platform for video hosting that users seemed to never really pay much attention to. So if we can get the Stream feature into SharePoint, and if MS does it right (yeah asking a lot there) then could end up being the best of both platforms. And as Marc with MS below replied they do have migration tools available for moving content over. And I've been telling users (I'm a trainer) to just stop using Stream and start thinking about how you'd host your videos in SharePoint. At the moment I'll still take the better sharing and layout options in SharePoint over the missing features in Stream.
This feature is still not available, but please up-vote it here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-ideas/public-videos/idi-p/80159
- My experience with this has been that a guest cannot view directly in Stream, but you can download your Stream videos (file type is WEBM) and upload them to your SharePoint site, where the same external users have permission to. I created a SP Library and added webpart to display the library on the homepage of the Sharepoint site. When the guest visits the SharePoint site, they can see and play the Stream videos within their browser. If you add the Stream webpart to your SharePoint site, the videos within that Stream webpart will not display for the guest. They get a big spinning wheel that will not give access to the videos. I'm disappointed because I wanted to use this in MS Teams when I added the stream tab there. I almost gave up on using Stream but read this thread and found I can leverage my Teams/SharePoint site and Team group permissions to still offer the videos this way. I know.... less than ideal but it works.
Has this been resolved yet?
- Pernille-Eskebo -- any update on where this is in the dev process? Clearly, many businesses would benefit from easier external sharing options for video content through Stream. Since we're now almost in Q2 2021 (and you mention this enhancement request being dev complete at the end of Q4 2020), is there any update?
Has this been done? If not, when will this be available?tmarchi I have read the thread of this question with interest as I am currently trying to share a video externally. I can share to an external email address with the link, which is password protected. However, I am having issues with the video not having sound once it is processed in Stream. It is a mp4 file which I am uploading into Stream. On the device I have shared it with, I have tried the Stream App but you have to have a MS account, which defeats the purpose and if I download the file, it still has no sound. I think it is more of an issue with the file going into Stream, rather than external sharing but would love any advise if someone has come across this please?
We just started using this for internal videos and its fantastic, supper bummed that we cant share this externally . Especially since its been on the road amped for a long time. Looks like Microsoft used Bing Maps....
I second these opinions. I just assumed this would be a feature. Why wouldn't it be?
thuaume410 Yes this indeed has changed, and the default location for recordings to be stored now is OneDrive / SharePoint hence you can now directly allow access.
while this is nice, it also allows everyone the video was shared with to download the file. Is there a way to not allow downloading content once shared with OneDrive?
Patrick_lky Looks like we're finally getting this feature! Stream is starting to migrate over to OneDrive and SharePoint. It appears to be happening in phases, with Teams meeting recordings being one of the first things to move. Seems you can enable this starting now from the admin portal, and then you can finally share your recordings with anyone.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/tmr-meeting-recording-change
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream
