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Move channels
Microsoftcrwinchester - This request is for our Stream (Classic) solution which is not getting any new updates. Stream (Classic) will be retired over the next year. We'll start the 1 year countdown to shut down and 6 month countdown to blocking new uploads starting in early Q1 CY2023. See the retirement timeline and migration tool here: https://aka.ms/StreamMigration
The new solution is to upload your videos into SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer directly. We are calling this "Stream (on SharePoint)" because it integrated from the storage on up into M365 where all files are stored. We strongly encourage you to start doing that now instead of using Stream (Classic).
For this specific request, once your videos are in M365 instead of in Stream (Classic) this problem goes away. You could either...
- Have your videos in a folder in your Teams team for the class and at the end of the year just use the bulk copy or move operation in Teams/SharePoint library to move the videos into a new class
- OR You could have a separate SharePoint communication site for the videos independent of any Teams team classes, where you link the videos into classes year over year. You could build a few landing pages in SP in this seperate site and link them into each class via the SharePoint teams channel app.
- See this guide for how to build "video channel" type experiences with SP pages: Featuring a set of videos on a page - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn
- See this on how to add a SP page to a Teams channel tab: Add a SharePoint page, list, or document library as a tab in Teams - Microsoft Support
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- None of these options are easy to do, we have faculty who need to do this. We do not use Teams regularly, except Chat because it is not reliable and things are separated from everything else (we found out, files saved in Teams, are not anywhere else). They also do not help an administrator who needs to find files if someone leaves and change ownership, we have no idea where they saved them. This is the same nightmare educators went through with OfficeMix to Video and then we are happy with Stream and now this....
This is frustrating news. On the user end, we don't want to keep moving things around and changing entire pathways to upload and share videos by channel organization. I understand technology software updates and improves, but to completely move and shift where we are having to store and organize videos creates huge time consuming tasks for us on the user end. I have years of videos in Stream that you are telling me I'm going to have to migrate to SharePoint? I read the link about the migration tool and it says it will only be available for global admins? That makes me think that I won't even be able to use it. I am a local admin, but not global in the district that uses 365. This is yet one more headache that's been created for us instead of resolved.
