Updated August 29, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Please review these new details.
Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on April 15, 2024. Additionally, end users will be blocked from uploading new videos to Stream (Classic) on September 15, 2023. Also end user will not be able to access Stream (Classic) at all after October 15, 2023, unless you delay this changes by using the new migration settings in Stream (Classic) admin center.
(Note: GCC customers have a different retirement timeline which can be found here https://aka.ms/StreamClassicRetireTimeline)
Stream (Classic)’s successor service, Stream (on SharePoint), entered general availability in October 2022. We recommend that you:
- begin using Stream (on SharePoint)
- direct your users to upload videos to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer
- put a plan in place for migration.
Stream live events will retire on January 31, 2024.
[When this will happen:]
The timeline for Stream (Classic) retirement can be found here: https://aka.ms/StreamClassicRetireTimeline
[How this affects your organization:]
Stream (on SharePoint) brings your users many of the capabilities of Stream (Classic) while allowing them to record and play videos directly in many everyday work and school apps such as Teams, Office.com, Yammer, Viva, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. In addition, Stream (on SharePoint) also enables your and your users to:
- Easily manage video files with the same security, admin controls, multi-geo support, compliance (eDiscovery, legal hold, retention, and data loss prevention policies), permissions, and sharing controls as the rest of your files in SharePoint and OneDrive.
- Record videos with advanced tools directly in the camera like background blur or replace, inking, text, audio only, and teleprompter.
- Search for videos anywhere in Microsoft 365. You can now find videos and Teams meeting recordings across Microsoft 365 by searching keywords.
- Find what you need quickly on the Stream start page in Office. The new start page shows recent, shared, and favorite videos, with playlists coming soon. (Note: The Stream start page doesn’t show you videos in Stream (Classic).)
- View Teams Meeting Recordings with transcripts, chapters, timeline markers, speaker attribution, and comments.
- Create custom page, site, and portal experiences to feature videos as part of your intranet and Viva Connections.
- Share videos the same way you would any other file in Microsoft 365 with support for Guests, People in your Organization links, or unauthenticated external sharing with “anyone” links.
- Get analytics per video, for all the videos in a site, or see who has watched your video.
- Add videos to the Viva Connections Feed.
- Use APIs based on the Microsoft Graph Files API for basic video file operations.
These benefits add up to ease of video management for admins and more productivity for your teams.
[What you need to do to prepare:]
Migrating your content from Stream (Classic):
All your existing Stream (Classic) videos can be transferred to Stream (on SharePoint) to take advantage of Stream’s rich integration within Microsoft 365. To support your move to Stream (on SharePoint) we have created migration tools that allows you to transfer your videos to SharePoint while also bringing over metadata, links and permissions associated with your videos.
To begin using the migration tool please see our Migration Overview – Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint)
The migration process involves both moving your content and directing your users to Stream (on SharePoint) which has a different look and feel than Stream (Classic). We recommend that you begin planning your migration soon.
[Learn more:]
Below are links to more information about migration and Stream (on SharePoint):
- Stream retirement and timeline overview and migration tool details.
- Learn about the migration tool
- Stream (Classic) video report
- Settings (coming soon) to delay block-upload and disablement
- IT admin overview of Stream (on SharePoint)
- Stream (on SharePoint) adoption and end user guides.
- Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) comparison
