What's new

Your communication needs are changing. We’re ready to help.

May 2020

Recording your screen can help you communicate, teach, and learn

Easily create new videos with the web-based, screen recording tool—no need to download anything to get started. Just open the latest version of Edge or Chrome and your Stream portal then, from the Create dropdown list, select Record screen.

Video creators can use options to:

• record any window or screen

• add a microphone or system audio

• include a webcam for a personal touch

Roadmap

To see what's on the future roadmap for Microsoft Stream, check out the Microsoft Roadmap, and filter down to the Microsoft Stream product: Stream Roadmap

Your feedback is important to us! Join our community and add new Stream feature ideas or vote on others' ideas: Stream Ideas

March 2020

Capture, swap, annotate, and trim, oh my!

The Stream mobile app now lets you capture, create, and edit videos directly from your phone. *Swap between rear and front-facing cameras while recording *Annotate videos while recording *Enhance videos while recording by drawing, adding text, applying filters, or by adding emoji and image stickers *Record multiple clips, rearrange them, and trim them

See recording a video and editing a video on mobile for more information.

Stream admin mode: with great power comes great responsibility

Company video policy in the footer of Stream

You can even give the company policy its own custom text to be displayed.

February 2020

Microsoft 365 live events assistance preview program

Need help setting up your company's next virtual training session? Want to understand all the options available to live stream your CEO's quarterly broadcast? Microsoft can help!

Microsoft has launched a free public preview of a new live events assistance service for customers to help them successfully deliver live events using Teams, Stream, or Yammer. The new service provides virtual assistance for anyone interested in becoming more familiar with setting up and running a live event – including assistance before, during, and after the event for hosts and presenters.

January 2020

PowerApps ♥ Microsoft Stream

PowerApps now supports adding Stream videos into your app. Check out the PowerApps help docs on how to use the Microsoft Stream video control.

November 2019

Ignite 2019 session: What's new & what's next for Stream

If you missed our "What's new & what's next roadmap" session at Ignite in November 2019, you can watch the recording of the session below or go to the Microsoft Tech Community to download resources for the session.

Snip, snip, give your video a little trim

This is especially useful for live events or Teams meeting recordings where the meeting or event doesn't start right at the beginning of the recording.

Stream videos in a Microsoft Forms question

Microsoft Forms now allows you to add a Stream video as a prompt to a question. On a question in Microsoft Forms: Insert media > Video > Paste the Stream video URL > Add

You can now make your survey's more interactive allowing users to watch a short video from Stream before answering questions.

Where did I put that meeting? I swear I had it right here a second ago.

October 2019

Replace a video and keep the same links

Video owners can now replace a video or live event in Stream without breaking its link or embed code. This is amazing if you've sent out an email to your entire organization with a link to a video, but right after you hit send, you realize there is something in the video that needs to be fixed. Or, if you are using Stream embed codes as part of training lessons, you can just replace the video in Stream and not have to touch the lesson itself. Video owners can go to Update video details > Replace video

Parlez-vous français? O español, 或中文, oder Deutsch, o italiano, または日本語, ou Português?

Stream now supports more languages for automatic closed captions and transcripts. Before Stream could only generate a closed caption and searchable transcript for videos in English or Spanish. Now Stream supports 8 different languages:

• English

• Chinese

• French

• German

• Italian

• Japanese

• Portuguese

• Spanish

Yes, I do like to have the closed captions enabled for all videos. Thank you.

The Stream player has been enhanced so that now when you enable closed captions, select a subtile, or change the caption/subtitle settings in Stream, it's now remembered for the next video you watch.

Stream looks all shimmery now

If you look close, Stream has a slightly updated look and feel. We went through every page of Stream and updated colors, fonts, spacing, backgrounds shadows, and icons to help make Stream easier to use. It's the same Stream just dressed up in fancier attire.

September 2019

Mm, yeah. If you could just go ahead and reaccept our company policy before you upload a video to Stream, that will be great. You did see the memo right? Mmmmkay?

August 2019

Oh no! I accidentally deleted the most important video ever! - 1.0.1723.9

Dear channel visitor, you should watch these videos in this order. Thanks, channel owner - 1.0.1723.9

There is a new setting on channels that allow the channel owner (or group owner/contributor) to set the default sort order of videos in the channel. When people visit your channel, they'll see the videos sorted by the option you chose. You can use it to sort your videos by publish date or even by video name to make sure visitors see the list of videos in the order you want.

June 2019

PowerPoint + Stream = Awesome!

Insert Stream videos into PowerPoint! Now, within PowerPoint, you can Insert > Online video > Paste in a stream video link, and it will embed the Stream video directly into your PowerPoint slide.

Stream links are supported in PowerPoint versions for Office 365 subscribers:

• PowerPoint Online

• PowerPoint for Windows - Version 1906, Build 11727.20210

• PowerPoint for Mac - Version 16.26.19060901

Emails from Stream enabled again - 1.0.1668.1

In the past, emails sent directly from the Stream service were disabled. Now, Stream emails are enabled again. Uploaders will get an email from Stream when their videos are done processing and users can email someone a link to a video from the Stream web Share > Email menu.

Bugz - 1.0.1668.1

Quality improvements for accessibility, playback, embed single sign-on (SSO), Live events, eCDN (Kollective plugin updated), and other general portal fixes.

May 2019

Survey says... Add Microsoft Forms into videos - 1.0.1637.3

Help! - 1.0.1637.3

The help pane in Stream has been updated with more helpful links, the ability to search the Stream help docs directly, and it will now show your customized help desk info as it is set up in Office 365 admin.

Swatting flies - 1.0.1637.3

Quality improvements for accessibility, playback, embed single sign-on (SSO), Live events, eCDN (Hive plugin updated), player version updated, and other general portal fixes.

April 2019

Stream is a yankee doodle dandy

Stream is now available in the Office 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) instance of Office 365, which is available to United States Federal, State, Local, and Tribal governments, as well as contractors holding or processing data on behalf of the US Government. Stream is still not available in GCC-High or GCC-DOD, check back for updates later this year for those environments. See Office 365 GCC for more info on the GCC environment.

Webpart, show me all of Stream on SharePoint

Everyone share with their neighbor - 1.0.1569.3

Eww bugs - 1.0.1585.1

Quality improvements for accessibility, performance, playback, Live events, and general improvements. Renamed Admin setting for enabling third-party eCDN providers from "Network caching" to "eCDN provider."

March 2019

Bug squashing - 1.0.1535.6

Quality improvements for accessibility, playback, embed single sign-on (SSO), Live events, eCDN (Kollective plugin updated), player version updated, Stream webpart for SharePoint Online, and other general portal fixes.

Going live in 3, 2, 1 - 1.0.1535.7

See also

• Stream roadmap