Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream is New and Improved

Microsoft is retiring the current version of Stream (called Classic Stream) within the coming year. Users won't be able to upload videos to the portal after August 1, 2023 and this portal will be deleted entirely on January 1, 2024.

The New Stream experience is now available to be your go-to video management platform at UIW. Moving forward, you won't need to upload videos to a portal like Classic Stream to receive benefits like transcripts, closed captioning, descriptions, comments, and more. Now, all videos uploaded to OneDrive or the Stream Portal will have those classic features and plenty of new ones. 

Will the Classic Stream Portal go Away?

Yes, the Classic Stream portal will be unavailable after January 1, 2024. Please take note of some key dates below.

• August 1, 2023
  • Videos may no longer be uploaded to Classic Stream for all UIW users, although the portal will remain open to view, share, and download un-migrated content.
• December 2023
  • Any remaining videos in Classic Stream will be migrated to the owner's OneDrive for the remaining users and groups.

What to Do If You Have Content in Classic Stream

If you currently have video content stored in Classic Stream, videos will need to be moved before the platform's retirement date of January 1, 2024. We have a migration tool that will migrate your Classic Stream video library to your OneDrive for you so there's little to no work needed to be done on your end. Classic Stream users should...

1. (Optional but recommended) Login to Classic Stream and delete content you do not want or need anymore.
2. Fill out the Microsoft Stream migration form to request the migration of your Classic Stream library to your OneDrive.

Features and Benefits of Using Microsoft Stream for Video Management

The New Microsoft Stream video player has almost all the features that Classic Stream had, with plenty of new features and improvements. By choosing to simply upload video content to Microsoft apps like OneDrive or the Stream Portal, both you and your video content will benefit from all the features and conveniences such as:

• Create sharing links for internal and external video sharing
• Embed videos for intra-organizational viewing
• Tag others in video comments to start a conversation
• Chapter creation for video content
• Create your own video description area with a Rich Content Editor.
  • #tags can be added in the 'About Video' section on a video to allow users to search a shared folder, group site, or the New Stream web app for specific tagged content.
• Automatically create, view, edit, and manage video transcripts and closed captions
• Video playback speed options
• Detailed analytics with retention curves, unique viewers, and total views on all videos
• Add custom thumbnails to videos
• Enable 'Noise suppression' for a video to eliminate background noise in the audio
• Create and share video playlists
• Noise removal switch for uploaded and existing content