I have learned recently that there is a new Microsoft Stream. I share here my learnings and experimentation with this new version.
New Microsoft Stream
See short introduction video by Kevin Stratvert:
You can access the new Microsoft Stream on SharePoint via the url: stream.office.com
The old one is accessible via https://web.microsoftstream.com/
Main differences New vs. Classic
I was expecting the new Stream to show you all the videos available somewhere in a SharePoint/OneDrive in your tenant you have access to.
Unfortunately, it isn't working like this. 😕
If you upload a video file already in your OneDrive it will duplicate the video.
Once you've uploaded a video file to the New Stream, it will be stored in your OneDrive at the document root level.
You can then move the file to another location.
But if you share a link before moving, the link will be broken once you move the file.
Drawback: OneDrive is for me, SharePoint is for me. Specially because of OneDrive personal retention policy: if the user leaves the company, his files in his OneDrive might disappear.
I had a session with Marc Mroz on 2022-03-09 to discuss these caveats.
He explained to me that the new Stream is Signal-based. It doesn't grab all the videos you have access to but display the one that were actively shared with you.
If you share a video link in a one-to-one chat with others, they should see this video in their new Stream.
Possibly this also works for Channel chats (I haven't tested it yet.) So the workaround would be to upload the video to Teams SharePoint and then share it via link in a Teams Chat.
In the New Stream right now you will miss a lot of features from the Old Stream.
See an overview/ comparison between the two versions here Features in Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) - Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Docs
Personally, I miss that you can't add a video description. But Marc showed me it is coming very soon and in the new version the description will even support rich text formatting (what the Old Stream couldn't, means links had to display there full URL; very ugly/ basic)
Also, the possibility to add a Table of Content / time stamp in the description isn't available but will be replaced by a nicer Chapters Feature.
Other Advantage of the New Stream would be the possibility to Share a video with externals. (If it is enabled in your SharePoint ecosystem; for us it isn't; but it is possible in OneDrive.)
The New Stream won't provide any Channels or Playlists. The idea is to create such listing in a SharePoint webpage. You can easily pull videos in a SharePoint webpage by metadata.
It leverages nicely the SharePoint/ Viva features.
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