Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when your name was mentioned

We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when your name was mentioned during the meeting. The markers are personalized, so that only you will see when your name was mentioned. The markers help you see who mentioned your name and in which context, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers enrolled in Microsoft Teams Premium preview or customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.

(more…)

Stream (Classic) Sets Retirement Date of Feb 15, 2024

Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on February 15, 2024. Certain parts of the service will retire sooner unless you take action. For example, end users will be blocked from uploading new videos on May 15, 2023 and will not be able to access Stream (Classic) at all after October 15, 2023, unless you delay these changes by using the new migration settings in Stream (Classic) admin center.  These new migration settings will become available to you in February. See the timeline in the link below for more details.

Stream (Classic)’s successor service, Stream (on SharePoint), entered general availability in October 2022. We recommend that you 1) begin using Stream (on SharePoint), 2) direct your users to upload videos SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer, and 3) put a plan in place for migration. 

(more…)

Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint): Create, View and Share Playlists

This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109564

(more…)

Microsoft Stream Video Analytics Plugin for web

Microsoft Stream is releasing the Analytics plugin within the web player experience. Users can see the total Views and Viewer counts of the video over 7, 30, 90 days and an all-time count using line graphs on the plugin panel. They can also see and interact with the viewership retention chart on top of the video playback experience.

Video owners and editors can disable the plugin for users with ‘view only’ permissions.

(more…)

Microsoft Stream: Create, view and share playlists in SharePoint

This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback. Users can add any video and audio files to a playlist that they have edit access to.
People with access to the playlist and to the files in the playlist can view the videos in order or skip back and forth between items in the playlist.

(more…)

Search Video Transcript for Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows users who are viewing a video to search for keywords contained in the video transcript. This feature is available on video files that have transcripts and are stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99920

(more…)

Microsoft Stream: Automatic chapters for Teams meeting recordings from PowerPoint Live sharing

Microsoft Stream: Automatic chapters for Teams meeting recordings from PowerPoint Live sharing ?With this feature, chapters will automatically be created for your Teams meeting recording when you share your slides during the meeting with PowerPoint Live. This will help meeting recording viewers easily find the right part of the meeting to watch based on when slides are presented.

(more…)

Microsoft Stream: Stream Web App

We will be rolling out the Stream web app. The web app improves how you view and publish video and audio files that are stored in or uploaded to Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, and SharePoint. The app and player experience works seamlessly with Office.com and brings key features of the Stream (classic) player to SharePoint playing experience.

To use the app, simply open an audio or video file from its location in SharePoint, OneDrive, stream.office.com or from a share link. Opening the file will open the Stream web app where you can easily view the video (or listen to the audio file) prepare your video for publishing with a title and description, set a custom thumbnail, add chapters, generate a transcript, share videos, and even share your video at a specific time code.

(more…)

Stream on SharePoint: Video Collections Page

SharePoint video collections pages make it easy to gather and display all videos from a SharePoint site collection in one place. This feature is particularly helpful for schools, universities and other organizations that tend to share videos in Teams channels. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93352

(more…)

Microsoft Stream: On-demand caption and transcript generation for supported languages

If you have edit permission to a video stored in SharePoint/OneDrive, this feature will allow you to generate closed captions and transcripts for the language spoken in the video. This feature expands from just English (US) to also support the following languages/locales: English (Canada), English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (Australia), English (New Zealand), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium), French (France), French (Canada), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Japanese (Japan), Hindi (India), Italian (Italy), Korean (Korea), Swedish (Sweden), Polish (Poland), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Finnish (Finland), Norwegian (Norway), Russia (Russia).

(more…)


I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.