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KaraCommsMgr
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Sep 01, 2022

Migrating videos to New Stream

Hi, I am a communications contractor for a change management office and have been asked about the plan to migrate our team's current Stream channel to New Stream (Stream on SharePoint).  Is there...
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    Marc Mroz
    Sep 01, 2022

    There isn't yet a retirement date for Stream (Classic), but it's coming soon.

     

    Before we announce a retirement date, we need a few more things released for Stream (on SharePoint) and the migration tool to be generally available. We think those two things will happen later this year and thus, we are heading toward being ready to announce a retirement date in November (or if we miss that timeframe we'll wait till the new year in January). We'll give 12 months' notice for IT admins to migrate the content before Stream (Classic) retires. 

     

    The migration tool is still in private preview but it's heading to public preview in a month or so and hopefully generally available by November. 

     

    In the mean time we HIGHLY suggest that organizations start thinking about how they'll use SharePoint instead of Stream (Classic). Start testing and start uploading new videos to SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, OneDrive instead of Stream (Classic) to minimize the amount of videos that need to be migrated in the coming year. 

Marc Mroz's avatar
Marc Mroz
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There isn't yet a retirement date for Stream (Classic), but it's coming soon.

 

Before we announce a retirement date, we need a few more things released for Stream (on SharePoint) and the migration tool to be generally available. We think those two things will happen later this year and thus, we are heading toward being ready to announce a retirement date in November (or if we miss that timeframe we'll wait till the new year in January). We'll give 12 months' notice for IT admins to migrate the content before Stream (Classic) retires. 

 

The migration tool is still in private preview but it's heading to public preview in a month or so and hopefully generally available by November. 

 

In the mean time we HIGHLY suggest that organizations start thinking about how they'll use SharePoint instead of Stream (Classic). Start testing and start uploading new videos to SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, OneDrive instead of Stream (Classic) to minimize the amount of videos that need to be migrated in the coming year. 

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