Office 365 Video, Microsoft’s solution for enterprise video sharing was primarily designed to host videos for an organization’s own internal use. It has been replaced by Microsoft Streams. So, if you would like to migrate to Microsoft Streams from Office 365 Video, here’s a short guide to help you out.
Transition to Microsoft Stream from Office 365 Video
Transitioning to Microsoft Stream from Office 365 video can be done by Office 365 Video portal admins. Only these admins have the exclusive rights to run the migration. Office 365 global admins and SharePoint admins do not have this permission. To begin the process of transition:
- Initiate the Migration
- Complete Verification
- Check out Permissions mapping experience.
1] Initiate the Migration
When eligible, tenant admins will see the banner on the Office 365 Video home page to initiate migration.
The migration experience page will give all the necessary information regarding changes you can expect during the migration. For instance, it will warn you against interrupting or ending the migration, once it has started.
Once you go through the information, hit the ‘Start migration’ button to kick start migration process. If prompted with a message, confirm to continue.
2] Complete Verification
Once the migration process is complete and you go live with it, you’ll find
All Office 365 Video links and embed codes are automatically redirected to Microsoft Stream. In addition, you can verify the migration is completed by,
- Checking if the videos transferred from Office 365 Video show up in Stream.
- The title and descriptions of all the videos are accurate.
- Subtitles/closed captions are associated with the videos in Stream.
- When you edit the video, permissions show the videos are owned the group (which was the Office 365 video channel).
In addition to these, you’ll have to confirm that
- Office 365 Video channels now show up as groups in Stream.
- The videos inside the Office 365 Videos appear inside the corresponding Stream group.
- The permissions you had earlier configured for the Office 365 Video channel have now been moved to the Stream group, including individual users and AD security groups.
Lastly, Users and security groups that were Office 365 Video admins earlier have now become Stream admins by default.
3] Checkout Permissions mapping experience
A channel in Office Video has 3 levels of permissions –
- Owner
- Editors
- Viewers
Following migration to Microsoft Stream, navigating to the permissions pane should show that the same permissions have been copied from Office Video to Stream.
The migration shouldn’t take too long, but the time limit may vary depending on how many videos and channels you have. It could take a few days to finish the copy.
For more information, you may see this Microsoft document.
