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Share your voice: Video Accessibility (captions, etc.)
In this quick poll, we want to find out about accessibility needs for videos in your organization. The poll is anonymous, and should take about one minute to complete. https://aka.ms/StreamAccessibilityPoll Results from the poll will be used almost immediately to prioritize upcoming work in Microsoft Stream (based on SharePoint).Rolling out new Stream on SharePoint features for education
Today, May the Fourth and Teacher Appreciation Day, we provided a look ahead at key Microsoft Stream (built on SharePoint) features coming in the July-September 2021 timeframe in a new blog post at https://aka.ms/StreamEduBTS2021. The upcoming features, which generally fall into the areas of accessibility, security, and playback, are critical for education and other organization types around the world. The Stream blog post is just part of a much larger set of Microsoft Education announcements today, which include at least 68 new learning-focused capabilities across the Microsoft 365 suite. To learn more, check out the following links... Source Link Description Microsoft Education blog http://aka.ms/FutureLearningBlog High level overview of narrative and news including Reading Progress, Teams, LMS, M:EE and more Reading Progress in Teams announcement https://aka.ms/ReadingProgressMay2021 Deep dive into Reading Progress that tells the full story and walks through the solution Microsoft Teams product announcements https://aka.ms/TeamsEduBTS2021 Step-by-step walkthrough of all 35+ Teams new and updated features for back-to-school, including updates from Assignments, meetings, Insights, LMS partnerships, Whiteboard, Forms, PowerPoint, and more M365 product announcements https://aka.ms/MicrosoftEduBTS2021 Step-by-step walkthrough of all 30+ M365 new and updated features for back-to-school, including Microsoft Math, Forms, Whiteboard, PowerPoint, Minecraft: Education Edition, and more Partner announcements https://aka.ms/PartnersEduBTS2021 Deeper explanation of new LMS partnerships, app partnerships for Assignments, Grade Sync, Immersive Reader, and moreRe: Stream access to external AD users or group companies
Yatin Purohit - Hi Yatin. We won't have guest sharing in Stream (Classic), but already have it in the new version of Stream. First, see if the information in this concise third-party-forum discussion about how to share a SharePoint site between Office 365 tenants is helpful. If so, then you could start collecting videos in your SharePoint extranet site, creating modern pages and using existing SharePoint web parts (e.g., Hero, Highlighted content, Document library, File viewer) to display your content. Does this help?Re: Bring dark mode to bing.com
Wittycat Shompinice - I found NinjaSquid's reply about going into edge://flags to be a temporary solution to what I was looking for, Please let us know if that works for you and will meet your needs until Bing (and techcommunity.microsoft.com, and other sites) natively support dark mode regardless of browser.Re: Ability to Download video?
AndyGadget et al - please see the following thread in Stream Ideas to track progress on this, for which the solution is now being worked on. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-ideas/allow-download-of-videos-for-non-owners/idi-p/80098?search-action-id=227122260319&search-result-uid=80098 to tracRe: How do I duplicate videos so I can trim them (to make video clips)?
Another option for editing is using the Video Editor that comes for free in Windows 10 (Start > Video Editor). You can download the video from Stream, edit and Save As multiple times, and then directly upload an edited version to Stream as a new video, or use the Replace Video function on Stream to replace the original video with the newly edited version while retaining the URL and information from the original video. More info: https://aka.ms/Win10VideoEditor.Re: Slow (100 kBps) download speed for a video
jtibau - Did it work through your school's network? One possibility is that there is some kind of inspection happening on the download, or that the actual video is getting blocked by the VPN or a proxy. If so, a change in network configuration to allow the videos to go direct rather than through the VPN might help. For that, this article might help. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/how-to-optimize-stream-amp-live-events-traffic-in-a-vpn-scenario/ba-p/1439767# -ChrisRe: MS Stream Invalid Authentication Token
estudiosfarmaceuticos - Unfortunately, KaizerBill has the right recommendation here. Microsoft Stream does not yet support Guest nor Unauthenticated (public anonymous) access. The owner of the Teams video would have to place the video in an application that does support external access, such as in a Teams file tab, OneDrive, SharePoint document library, etc. External access is on the roadmap, and for live streams, is currently being tested in a limited preview with Microsoft Stream live events through July 1, 2020. -ChrisRe: The video could not be found - in PowerPoint (it can be found in PowerPoint online, though)
MARK13 - I'm not a PowerPoint licensing expert, but from the version number you provided, I think you must be running PowerPoint 2016. Is that correct? My theory, based on the article I linked to above and the fact that PowerPoint keeps trying to route you to an active Microsoft online account, is that you'd need to be running the Office 365 subscription version of PowerPoint, which would have a version number somewhere between 1906 and 2006. Does that make sense?Re: Permanent video storage?
Djackson230 - yes, as long as you maintain an appropriate Office 365 subscription, your content will be stored. We'll introduce document retention capabilities for Stream in the future, at which point you'll want to work with whomever in your org sets retention policies (if not you) to ensure those policies take into account the need to retain content permanently.Re: The video could not be found - in PowerPoint (it can be found in PowerPoint online, though)
MARK13 - I can't tell if you looked at the article I linked to. If I'm reading your reply correctly, you're running PowerPoint for Mac with a version that is older than the specified 16.26.19060901. Is that correct? -Chris
