Friday, June 23, 2017

What is Microsoft Stream?

Microsoft Stream is meant as a replacement for Office 365 Video service. Microsoft Stream is video service for business users.

Microsoft is always aiming at corporate users and this service allows for uploading, sharing, managing and viewing corporate video for company-wide education and information sharing.

The base platform for Stream service is Azure Media Services. Of course integration of its various components be it Skype or Office is a feature paramount in its business vision and Stream integrates with SharePoint. Teams, Office 365 groups etc. Security is via Azure Active Directory with its authentication and encryption features.

Stream is a lot more than video managing, it can,

* searchable speech-to-text transcribed audios
* Face detection in videos
* Linked time codes

Follow the link below to see all the details about Microsoft Stream.

Migration from Office 365 Video to stream is phased and is supposed commence in the second half of 2017.

More on stream here.

This video gives some idea of what it was sometime ago (not the latest)


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