- Inform and engage employees and customers with live and on-demand events in Microsoft 365. Live events enable anyone to create live and on-demand events that deliver compelling communications to employees, customers and partners. Events use video and interactive discussion across Teams, Stream, or Yammer and can be as simple, or as.
- Microsoft Office 365 Personal subscription activation is part of the initial device setup process. The activation prompt displays immediately after Windows activation. Follow the on-screen instructions to activate; or choose to skip, and complete the activation at a later time.
Microsoft Stream is your company's own video site. A great place to share those videos only your company should watch, or air an event live. With Stream you can: Upload videos and invite co-workers to view them. Microsoft Stream is a corporate video-sharing service which was released on June 20, 2017 that will gradually replace the existing Office 365 Video. Microsoft mobile services; References This page was last edited on 12 June 2020, at 15:07 (UTC). Text is available under the. Live events in Microsoft 365. You can create a live event in Stream, Microsoft Teams or Yammer — wherever your audience, team, or community resides. Attendees can participate in real time, with high-definition (HD) video and interactive discussion, or catch up later with powerful AI features that unlock the content of the event recording.
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Microsoft 365 live event limit increases
To continue supporting our customers' needs, through June 30, 2021, we will extend temporary limit increases for live events, including:
- Event support for up to 20,000 attendees
- 50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant
- Event duration of 16 hours per broadcast
Additionally, live events with up to 100,000 attendees can be planned through the Microsoft 365 live events assistance program. The team will assess each request and work with you to determine options that may be available. Learn more.
Live events and Microsoft 365
Discover new ways to foster connection and engagement between leaders and employees at every level in your organization.
More than ever before, employees in the modern workplace seek work environments that unlock creativity, make their lives more productive and fulfilling, and foster a sense of connection with their organizations mission and purpose.
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A critical first step for your organization to thrive in this new culture of work is to drive alignment of your people around shared purpose and goals. Leaders realize that organizations who do this well have an advantage in attracting and retaining an engaged workforce.
Microsoft 365 live events brings live video streaming to a new level, going beyond what was previously possible with Skype Meeting Broadcast. Live events in Microsoft 365 help to drive connection throughout the entire life cycle of engagement with attendees before, during, and after live events.
You can create a live event wherever your audience, team, or community resides, using Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Teams, or Yammer. Attendees receive notifications and can participate in real time, with high-definition (HD) video and interactive discussion, using web, mobile, or desktop apps. For employees who are in different time zones or unable to attend live, the conversation keeps going so they still feel connected to leaders and peers, helping to overcome geographical or organizational boundaries.
After an event, it’s easy to make the recording available on an event page, so people can watch the event on their own schedule and catch up quickly with powerful AI features that unlock the content of the event recording. The recording is automatically transcribed and detects changes in speakers, making it simple to search for content later. The event and recordings are powered by Microsoft Stream, the intelligent video service in Microsoft 365.
Yammer
If the people you want to connect with in your organization are already in Yammer, you can create live events and have them show up directly in Yammer where the viewers can participate in live discussion while watching the event directly in Yammer. Learn more
Microsoft Teams
If instead, you want your audience to view the event in Microsoft Teams, you can create the events so your viewers can join and watch from Microsoft Teams. Learn more
Microsoft Stream
Finally, if you want your viewers to watch in Microsoft Stream instead of either of the above, you can do that, too. Learn more
Features breakdown by service and event type
Depending on which service you create the live event from and event type selected, there will be a different set of features available as a producer and presenter as well as as a viewer or participant of the live event. The following tables represent the current feature differences.
In the future, as we enhance live events across Microsoft 365, we'll strive as much as possible to make the same features available from all the services.
There are two production types supported by live events:
With Teams production type (formerly known as Quick Start), you use Microsoft Teams to share your webcam, screen-share, or invite other presenters—just like a regular meeting.
With the External app or device production type (formerly known as External Encoder), you connect a software or hardware encoder via RTMP(S).
Watch event
| Production setup | Teams (started from Yammer) | External app or device (started from Yammer) | Teams (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Stream) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watch in Yammer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Watch in Teams | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Watch in Stream | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Embeddable live event player in Stream | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Guest Access* (attendee) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Anonymous viewers (External or public) | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Interact during event
Stream Microsoft Office 365
| Production setup | Teams (started from Yammer) | External app or device (started from Yammer) | Teams (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Stream) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderated Q&A | No | No | Yes | Yes (in Teams only) | No |
| Yammer conversation | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Produce event
| Production setup | Teams (started from Yammer) | External app or device (started from Yammer) | Teams (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Stream) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams client as video producer | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| RTMP(S) ingest | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic real time closed captions | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Live captions fed into encoder** | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple presenters | Yes | If encoder supports | Yes | If encoder supports | If encoder supports |
| Guest Access* (presenter) | Yes | If encoder supports | Yes | If encoder supports | If encoder supports |
*Guest access lets you add individual users from outside your organization to your teams and channels in Microsoft Teams. Learn more about Guest Access
**708 passthrough closed captions from stenographer
Post event follow-up
| Production setup | Teams (started from Yammer) | External app or device (started from Yammer) | Teams (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Teams) | External app or device (started from Stream) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic live to VOD transition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic post-event closed captions | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| VOD stored in Stream | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Download recording by owner | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Viewer attendee report | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Live Events Assistance
You can leverage the Microsoft 365 Live Events Assistance program, which is in public preview. Its goal is to help customers walkthrough a first time live event set up as well as to provide assistance for an upcoming live event. For more information, please refer to the live events assistance documentation.
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A new vision for Microsoft Stream empowers users to create, share, discover, and manage video just as they would any other file.
With video that will be stored in Microsoft 365, the new version of Stream builds on the rich content management features of SharePoint and unlocks the intelligence of Microsoft Graph to enhance videos across Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Stream—the intelligent video app in Microsoft 365—is being re-imagined and rebuilt to integrate seamlessly with applications across the suite, so you can create, share, discover, and manage video as easily as any Office document.
In the new version of Stream, video and audio files will be stored on the SharePoint files platform within Microsoft 365 like all other file types; already today, SharePoint powers file experiences for Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, and Outlook. This will provide the best of both worlds: intelligent video experiences powered by Stream across the suite, and management of video that leverages the power of SharePoint content services for permissions, sharing, compliance, governance, and customizable portal experiences.
A few notes of what to expect and what will be missing:
Stream Microsoft 365 Office
What new features already exist for new Stream if I start using it now?
The features below are already available for videos uploaded to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer, and other Microsoft 365 applications:
- Playback of video files uploaded to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Yammer
- APIs based on the Microsoft Graph Files API for basic video file operations
- Video analytics for a trend of views and visitors over time, who watched a specific video, and site usage data
- Availability in more regional datacenters for videos
- Multi-Geo support for video file storage
- Service encryption with customer key support for videos
- Basic information governance for videos (eDiscovery, legal hold, retention policies)
- Microsoft search for videos based on metadata of the video file
- Unauthenticated external video sharing via SharePoint and OneDrive “anyone” links
- Guest support for videos
- Power Apps and Power Automate for videos
- Video playback support in the mobile apps for Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Yammer
Will I lose any features if I start using the new Stream instead of Microsoft Stream (Classic) right now?
While there is strong feature overlap between Microsoft Stream (Classic) and the new Stream, there are some features from Microsoft Stream (Classic) that are not yet available in the new Stream. We are actively working to add the best of Microsoft Stream (Classic) into the new Stream. Check out what’s new in Stream or what’s coming next on the Stream roadmap.
These features are offered in Microsoft Stream (Classic) but are not currently available in the new Stream on top of SharePoint and OneDrive:
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- Full playback scale and performance of classic Stream
- Stream web app to find all videos in new Stream
- Easily getting an embed code
- Transcripts, closed captions, and subtitles
- Adding Microsoft Forms to a video for quizzes and surveys
- A video player page with description, comments, transcripts, Forms, etc.
- Ability to change playback speed (0.5x – 2x)
- A dedicated Stream mobile application
- A video webpart for SharePoint pages
- Watchlist
- Screen recording
- Channels
Read more here:
- DOCS: What is new Microsoft Stream
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream - DOCS: Migrate from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to the new Microsoft Stream
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/classic-migration - VIDEO: Video in Microsoft 365
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/video-hub/video-in-microsoft-365/m-p/1696794 - VIDEO: The New Microsoft Stream: Vision, Strategy, & Roadmap
https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/087d135a-64ae-41ab-8b15-f0a965223d5b
https://myignite.microsoft.com/archives/IG20-OD271 - VIDEO: What’s New for Microsoft Teams Meeting Recordings
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/video-hub/what-s-new-for-microsoft-teams-meeting-recordings/m-p/1696777