This document provides an overview and summary of Microsoft Stream capabilities for adopting it in an organization. Key points include: - Stream offers adaptive streaming quality, automatic captioning in English/Spanish, deep search of transcripts, transcript and face detection features. - Live events can be produced and streamed in Stream, Teams, or Yammer with different capabilities for each. - The mobile app allows offline viewing and uploading videos. Videos can be embedded in Office apps. - Best practices are outlined like limiting upload permissions and establishing storage quotas. The roadmap includes future improvements.

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Adopting Microsoft Stream in Your Organization
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Office 365 Video Evolution
Hosted in
SharePoint
Office 365
Video
Microsoft
Stream
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3. @shrpntknight
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 Bitrate changes based on the following factors:
 Operating System
 Device
 Network Type
 Available bandwidth
 You can manually set the quality to limit
consumption, ie on cellular network

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 Audio automatically transcribed to text
 Audio must be in English or Spanish
 Video must be an MP4 or WMV
 Auto generated captions can be edited to fix transcription errors
 Caption files for other languages can be uploaded to enable multi-lingual
captioning
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 Allows searching of video transcripts
 Can click to jump to point in video where match
was found

6. @shrpntknight
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 Enables following along with spoken text
 Owners can edit transcript directly
 Autoscroll enables transcript to keep up with
video
Screenshots here

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 Associates a face with the speaker
 Enables jumping in video to see one speaker
 Detected faces can be merged or removed

8. @shrpntknight
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 Live events enable producers to curate and
control content broadcast to audience
 Can schedule, produce, and deliver live events
for many scenarios
o Company wide events
o Leadership updates
o Training sessions
 Provides analytics for monitoring

9. @shrpntknight
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 Options for producing live events
 Teams
 Yammer
 Stream
 Max resolution 720p
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Live Events Comparison
Teams Yammer Stream
Software Needed Teams App or Video Encoder Teams App or Video Encoder Video Encoder
Multiple Presenters Yes Yes With Encoder Setup
Moderated Q&A Yes No No
Video Auto Uploaded to Stream
for Video on Demand
Yes if using video encoder
otherwise must download the
video and manually upload
Yes if using video encoder
otherwise must download the
video and manually upload
Yes
External Viewers Yes, if using Teams App No No
Comments after the event Yes Yes Yes
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KnightMicrosoft Stream Mobile Application
 Allows for easy searching and interaction with
videos
 Allows saving videos for offline viewing
 Upload videos from device
 Record from mobile coming in June

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 Videos/Live Events can be embedded
 Word
 PowerPoint
 OneNote
 Web Page
 External Web Systems

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Interaction
 Allows you to embed Microsoft Forms into video at
desired points
 Can add polls, quizzes, surverys
 Great for knowledge systems to confirm
knowledge acquisition
 Once added, can’t be edited,
to change remove and re-add
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 Storage Quota – 500GB + .5GB per licensed
user
 Live events
 4 hour max length
 10,000 attendees
 Max video size 50GB
 500,000 total videos
 5,000 uploaded videos per user
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15. @shrpntknight
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 More out of the box reporting on the way
 In the mean time, reporting is self service
 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Mi
crosoft-Stream-Blog/Global-Admin-Pro-
Tip-Learn-how-to-build-video-
analytics/ba-p/365267
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17. @shrpntknight
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 Identify teams that would benefit most
 Get executive sponsor
 Start small
 Establish company policy
 Identify starting content
 Select good thumbnails and spotlight videos
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18. @shrpntknight
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 Limit who can create company-wide channels
 Require users to have completed training before uploading
content
 Require acceptance of company policy before uploading
videos
 Establish alerts when approaching storage quota
 Start with highest quality videos to enable the best adaptive
bitrate experience
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19. @shrpntknight
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KnightMicrosoft Stream Roadmap: http://aka.ms/StreamRoadmap
 SharePoint webpart enhancement – “All
of Stream” option
 Interactive quizzes/polls with Microsoft
Forms (Currently rolling out)
 Mobile video upload & share
 Admin setting to disable people timeline &
default upload permissions
 Live events generally available
 Available in Government Community
Cloud (GCC)
 Deployment to new data centers
 Available now  Targeted this year  Future top of mind
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QUESTIONS
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22. EVALUATIONS
• Speaker Evaluations
• located at the front of the room
• Will be read by the org and then sent to speakers
• Be honest and constructive
• Turn in 6th floor info desk
• Event Evaluations
• Visit the 6th floor info desk
• Give us your honest feedback – we can take it
• Turn in 6th floor info desk

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