Forum Discussion
Share documents outside the organisation?
- Not today but we are working on it.
I'm glad to hear that external sharing is in the development plans. Do you have a rough idea of how long until that might be available? 4 weeks? 4 months? 4 years?
Thanks!
--Marty
- Marc Mroz
Microsoft
We can't give you a solid promised timeline as we don't have developers actively working on it at this moment. But we hope to pick working on this project sooner rather than later. If I had a guess it would Q1/Q2 or so of 2018.
So, is there no way to share videos externally that are managed in Office 365 outside of putting them in SharePoint Online? Not even to authenticated external users?
I have a client who may kill a project I am working on to manage sales and marketing collateral for the field in SharePoint Online, but the solution has to include the ability to share videos with customers and the streaming performance of videos from SharePoint Online itself is not acceptable. What about Office 365 Videos?
Thanks,
Mary
- Marc Mroz
We have it on our roadmap for external sharing of videos on Stream but we are just in planning phase now.
We did enable O365 Video to do named guest access at the Channel level though a series of steps and powershell commands. We aren't widely advertising it, as that method won't work once a customer does move from O365 Video to Stream, as when we build this in Stream will be a different mechanism. So if your client wants to use this external guest option on O365 Video channel until the point when they move to Stream that is an option. You can send me a private message and I'll give you the series of steps to enable it on a O365 Video channel.
SharePoint Online and/or ODB is your other option for external sharing of videos outside your organization today.
