Office 365 Videos
Office 365 Video is an intranet website portal where people in your organization can post and view videos. It's a streaming video service for your organization that's available with SharePoint Online in Office 365. It's a great place to share videos of executive communications or recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, or training sessions.
Features
Channels
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Channel admins for Office 365 Video can create channels to organize videos.
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You can have channels for particular subjects, for example, or for specific groups such as departments or teams
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You see only the channels that you have permission to view
Uploading videos
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To upload a video, you upload it to a specific channel.
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You can upload multiple videos to a channel at the same time.
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Anyone in your organization who has edit permission for a particular channel can upload videos to it
Editing information about a video
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Providing information about a video will make it easier for other people to find it through search, and will provide additional context for it in Delve and the Office Graph
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You have to have owner or editor permission for the channel that the video is in
Owner and people metadata
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Office 365 Video also shows who uploaded the video and the various people who are in the video.
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This enhances the discoverability of the video and highlights the main speakers; it, too, enhances when and how your videos appear in other users’ Delve activity feeds pivoting off of the relevant context of who knows who
Changing a thumbnail for a video
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After a video you've uploaded to Office 365 Video has been processed and is ready to play, you can add a custom thumbnail for the video or you can choose from one of the auto-generated thumbnails provided.
Add subtitles or captions
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Subtitles or captions are lines of text that appear at the bottom of a video and provide a transcript of the audio portion of the video
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You can add subtitles or captions to any video by uploading one or more subtitle or caption files
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Office 365 Video only supports the Web Video Text Track (.vtt) file format.
Watching a video
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You can watch videos from where they are featured on the Office 365 Video home page, and from specific channels.
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When you select a video thumbnail, the video plays right in your browser window
Sharing videos with others
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Embed an Office 365 video on your site. You can display the video on a SharePoint Online site or other website by adding the embed code for that video to the page where you want the video to appear.
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Post to Yammer. You can post to Yammer about a video while you're watching it, and your post will automatically include a link to the video that you're watching.
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Send a link to a video in an email. To get a link for a video, select the video in Office 365 Video and then copy the URL from the browser address bar.
Discover spotlighted channels and videos
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Admin can spotlight up to three channels and four videos on the home page.
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Person with edit permission for a channel can spotlight up to five videos on the page for that channel.
Find the most popular videos
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See what videos are most popular for your entire organization, check the Trending section on the home page.
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See what videos are particularly popular in a certain channel, check the Trending section on that channel page.
Find videos that you've uploaded
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See what videos you've uploaded to a channel, select a channel, and then choose My Videos.
Search for a video
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Search for a particular video by typing what you are searching for in the Search videos box.
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Find videos that are in Office 365 Video by using SharePoint enterprise search.
Restore a video in the Recycle Bin
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Deleted videos sit in the Recycle Bin for 90 days, and it is now possible to recover and restore videos from the Recycle Bin.
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Admins can restore videos that have been deleted by a user
Channel permissions
There are three types of channel permissions: owners, editors, and viewers. You must have owner permission to change permission settings.
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Owners - has full control over a channel. They can manage the channel from the channel settings page, upload videos, delete videos, and delete the channel.
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Editors - has edit permission for a channel. They can upload videos and delete videos. Then cannot manage the channel settings or delete the channel.
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Viewers - can view all of the videos that are in the channel. By default, everyone in your organization has viewer permission for a channel when the channel is created.
By default, only channel owners will see the download link on the player page for videos. To change who can download videos from the channel, select an option from the Show download link for videos to list.
View statistics for a video
The video viewer statistics gives people insights into how their videos are being viewed—highlighting viewing spikes where shared via email and Yammer or discovered within Office Delve. It shows aggregate data on how many people have watched your video and how long they spend watching it, visualizing the drop-off rates over time.
On the Video page, next to the date when the video was uploaded, you'll see the cumulative number of video views. This information is updated every 15-20 minutes.
The Statistics link shows additional statistics for that video. The first graph shows:
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the total number of views by day for the last 14 days
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the total number of unique visitors by day for the last 14 days
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the total number of views per month for the last 36 months
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the sum of unique daily visitor counts per month for the last 36 months.
This information is updated once a day.
The second graph shows how viewers interacted with the video. For example, you can see which parts of your video users viewed the most or the least. The numbers on the left represent the number of times a specific section of the video was viewed. The numbers along the bottom of the graph represent 10 specific time ranges within the video and the percentage of the video that corresponds to each time range. This information is updated once a day.
Desktop
Browser
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OS
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Playback Supported
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Edge
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Windows 10
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HTML5
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IE 11
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Windows 10
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HTML5
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IE 11
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Windows 8.1
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HTML5
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IE 11
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Windows 7
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Adobe Flash
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IE 9 - 10
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Windows
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Adobe Flash
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Chrome (latest)
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Windows 7+ / OSX (latest)
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HTML5
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Firefox (latest)
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Windows 7+ / OSX (latest)
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HTML5
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Safari (latest)
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OSX (latest)
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Native HTML5
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Mobile
Browser
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OS
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Playback Supported
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IE 11
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Windows Phone 8.1
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HTML5
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Chrome
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Android 4.4.4
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HTML5
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Safari
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iOS 6
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Native HTML5
| Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video
In July 2016, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Stream, a new business video service that makes it easier to access and discover video content inside your organization. Microsoft Stream builds upon the learnings and success of Office 365 Video, and over time the two experiences will converge, making Stream the de facto video experience in Office 365.
There is no change for customers using Office 365 Video during the Microsoft Stream preview. Microsoft Stream is currently in Preview but Office 365 Video is a Generally Available (GA) product.
For the immediate term, nothing changes with O365 Video. Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video are two distinct services at this time
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If you have O365 E/A/G license use O365 Video.
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If you don't have O365 E/A/G license, now you can use Microsoft Stream Preview.
Over time, Microsoft Stream and Office 365 Video will converge into a single solution.
Scenarios -
On-demand Trainings
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Corporate Messages
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Community knowledge sharing
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Help & How to
Resources
Watch Videos …
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Introducing Office 365 Video
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What’s New: Office 365 Video
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Overview of Office 365 Video and how to use it
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What happens to a video file when you upload it into Office 365 Video?
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Office 365 Video - Embed Video Throughout Your Intranet
Read …
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Meet Office 365 Video
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What’s new—Office 365 Video
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Embed video throughout your intranet
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Create and manage a channel in Office 365 Video
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Manage your Office 365 Video portal
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Video formats that work in Office 365 Video
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Embed a video from Office 365 Video
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Add subtitles or captions to a video in Office 365 Video
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View statistics for a video in Office 365 Video
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Video REST API reference
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Office 365 Video networking Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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