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Nov 12, 2018 Microsoft Stream now includes a rich set of IT admin capabilities for managing your company’s video content, including Assigning Stream Admins, Restricting Uploaders, Adding Company Guidelines with Employee Consent, and Managing Content. Meta description: Microsoft Social Engagement will be discontinued by January 16, 2020 and replaced with the Dynamics 365 AI for Market Insights comprehensive solution. Microsoft Stream is the video management and sharing service for employees at all levels across businesses of all sizes who are interested in using videos in the workplace to connect, collaborate, learn, and share information. Users can search for videos easily.
This is a feature by feature comparison of Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video.
To see more detail on what's coming in the future on the Stream roadmap: https://aka.ms/StreamRoadmap
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To see what has released recently for Microsoft Stream, see the Stream release notes: https://aka.ms/StreamNew
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The following dates and features are subject to change. These are estimates to give you a sense of where we are headed and rough timing.
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| Area | Feature | Microsoft Stream (classic) | Office 365 Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portal | Video Portal | Available now | Available now |
| Public channels | Available now | Available now | |
| Private Channels | Available now | Available now | |
| Mobile responsive web pages | Available now | Available now | |
| Search channels and videos | Available now | Available now | |
| Like videos | Available now | Not planned | |
| Lock who can contribute to channel | Available now | Available now | |
| Share by email | Available now | Available now | |
| Private video (permission at video) | Available now | Not planned | |
| Hashtags, time code links, and web links in video and channel descriptions | Available now | Not planned | |
| Upload from mobile web page | Available now | Available now | |
| Video in multiple channels | Available now | Not planned | |
| Trending videos | Available now | Available now | |
| Personal watch list | Available now | Not planned | |
| Comments | Available now | Not planned | |
| Email notification when video done processing | Available now | Available now | |
| User page - see all videos and channels for a user | Available now | Not planned | |
| Admin management of videos and channels | Available now | Available now | |
| Video recycle bin | Available now | Available now | |
| Download original video by owner | Available now | Available now | |
| Download original video by viewers | Not planned | Available now | |
| Featured videos on home page | Available now | Available now | |
| Featured videos on channel/group page | Available now | Available now | |
| Featured channels on home page | Not planned | Available now | |
| Restrict users that can upload | Available now | Available now | |
| Restrict users that can create channels | Available now | Available now | |
| Admin defined links to company guidelines | Available now | Available now | |
| Admin defined employee consent before use | Available now | Not planned | |
| Audit log search for user actions taken on videos | Available now | Available now | |
| Share link to start playback of video at specific time code | Available now | Not planned | |
| Create table of contents in video description by linking to video time codes | Available now | Not planned | |
| Video Playback | Secure Adaptive Streaming | Available now | Available now |
| Streaming videos via Azure CDN | Available now | Available now | |
| Captions support | Available now | Available now | |
| Custom thumbnails | Available now | Available now | |
| External public anonymous | Not planned | Not planned | |
| Adjust playback speed (0.5x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, 2x) | Available now | Available now | |
| 1080p Streaming | Available now | Available now | |
| Intelligent Encoding - optimize encoding based on input video | Available now | Available now | |
| Embed | Authenticated video embedding | Available now | Available now |
| Embed in OneNote | Available now | Available now | |
| Embed in Sway | Available now | Available now | |
| Embed Video in SharePoint Online | Available now | Available now | |
| Start playback at specific time code | Available now | Not planned | |
| Licensing | Included in Office 365 Enterprise Plans (E1-E5) | Available now | Available now |
| Included in Office 365 Education Plans (A1-A4) | Available now | Available now | |
| Included in Office 365 Firstline Plans (F) | Available now | Available now | |
| Included in Office 365 Government Plans (GCC) | Available now | Available now | |
| Included in Office 365 Government Plans (GCC - High/DOD) | Not planned | Not planned | |
| Standalone Plan | Available now | Not planned | |
| Statistics | Statistics - View trend, which part of video viewed | Not planned | Available now |
| Detailed portal, group, channel analytics | Not planned | Not planned | |
| API | REST API | Not planned | Available now |
| Mobile Apps | iOS App | Available now | Available now |
| Android App | Available now | Not planned | |
| Compliance | Office 365 Tier C compliance standards | Available now | Available now |
| Office 365 Tier D compliance standards | Available now | Not planned | |
| Data Center Regions to Store Data | US | Available now | Available now |
| EMEA | Available now | Available now | |
| APAC | Available now | Available now | |
| UK, India, Australia, Japan, Canada | Available now | Available now | |
| Germany * | Not planned | Available now | |
| China * | Not planned | Available now | |
| US Government Community Cloud | Available now | Available now | |
| US Government Community Cloud (GCC High/DOD) | Not planned | Not planned | |
| Media Intelligence | Deep search within automatic audio transcript (speech to text) | Available now | Not planned |
| Face detection - jump to where face appears | Available now | Not planned | |
| Office 365 Collaborations | Yammer sharing | Available now | Available now |
| Videos show up in Delve | Not planned | Available now | |
| Videos and channels show up in SharePoint Home | Not planned | Available now | |
| Videos in Enterprise search | Not planned | Available now | |
| Microsoft Teams tab for a single video | Available now | Available now | |
| Microsoft Teams tab for a Channel | Available now | Not planned | |
| Inline play of video links on Yammer | Available now | Available now | |
| Publish from PowerPoint | Available now | Not planned | |
| Embed into PowerPoint | Available now | Not planned | |
| PowerApps integration | Not planned | Not planned | |
| Flow integration | Not planned | Not planned | |
| Office 365 Groups - Stream Group for every Office 365 Group | Available now | Not planned | |
| SharePoint Webpart for Modern Pages - Video | Available now | Available now | |
| SharePoint Webpart for Modern Pages - Channel | Available now | Not planned | |
| SDN | Support for SDN provider - Hive | Available now | Available now |
| Support for SDN provider - Kollective eCDN | Available now | Not planned | |
| Support for SDN provider - Ramp OmniCache and Multicast+ | Available now | Not planned | |
| Live | Live streaming | Available now | Not planned |
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Data Center Regions to Store Data - Microsoft Stream is available globally. However, if your tenant is in a geographic region where Stream hasn't been deployed yet, your Stream data will be stored in the nearest geographic region.