Hello and welcome to Microsoft Mechanics Live. Coming up we're gonna take a look at
updates to Microsoft Stream our intelligent video service in Microsoft
and Office 365 and most recently now available even in our small business
plans as well we're gonna look at the new capability to create and stream live
events something brand new streams new mobile app that allows you to view
videos on-the-go from iOS and Android phones even download content for secure
offline viewing as you're in flights are outside of Internet and if you're an
admin we're gonna give you a tour of recent updates for Stream in the admin
settings because we've got a lot of admins I think among us today but to do
that I'm joined by Vishal Sood from the Stream team welcome thank you nice to be
here all right so a lot of people here aren't familiar with Microsoft Stream
really it's a service that's part of Microsoft and Office 365 it gives you a
fully featured enterprise video platform and that integrates into other other
parts of the service in office and it also come it's come a long way since
launch because there's lots of things that you can do lots of ways to
integrate it really across sharepoint across Microsoft teams we want to show
some of that today so why don't you tell us a bit about the background and what's
going on with that cool thank you yeah it has indeed come a long way so we
recently launched this live events capability in stream and and at
Microsoft we actually use this to us or executive town halls monthly Q&A and
stuff like that so here is an example of Satya who did a recent Town Hall for us
at Microsoft and you'll see these events tend to be professionally produced your
multiple camera angles different shots sometimes audience sometimes a speaker
from different angles so it's a high production experience right you're using
multiple cameras and I can see audience shots in here and everything so how
would I set something like that up you didn't stream yeah let me show that to
you is it easy so here I am in the stream portal so any first thing you do
is you go to create and you click on live event preview I did that already
and this page shows up in this cuz I uploaded a thumbnail because I
want to talk about mechanics and and you are gonna do an update for us so I'm
gonna say updates from ignite as a title I also picked a time here and then at a
specific time and date and that's it and I'm gonna hit save now so what that will
do is you'll see the thumbnail updated and then now we got a couple of URLs
here so what I'm going to show you next is using an encoder setup because this
is a professionally produced setup and you need multiple cameras and stuff like
that okay you could also choose any of your other favorite encoders but in this
case I'm gonna pick OBS so I'm gonna go into OBS next sounds good so this is OBS
and as you can see we have a two camera setup going on here so we have me here
and you can see many many me so and then we have you here yeah it's just Justin
out here so you see a little bit of like from the live feed that's coming what
you can see from us this is the video kind of making its round-trip back onto
your screen right that is correct so one thing I want to do is I'm gonna go back
to the previous screen you see this two URLs here I'm going to copy this URL
because that's what we will use in OBS and that's how OBS was connect to stream
so in this case I have everything set up its super easy we have detailed
instructions and I'm going to just go here and save file
sorry settings and I'm gonna go streaming and I'll paste this URL here
which I copied from stream and and and click OK and and that's it so if I go
back to go back to my previous screen I'm going to start setup and this is
pretty cool because pretty much any of these encoders you can actually use
other options if you want to have different audio sources or stream from
different video source types you can do things like convert SDI if you want to
into USB for you know for another input on the on your machine so there's a lot
of different options that you have there yes that is correct so in fact you know
in our case we are showing OBS which is a software based system but you could
theoretically use a hardware based encoder which is like a TriCaster or
something like that as well so in this case you see we are ready to connect
which means I'm all set for encoder to start sending stuff to me okay in stream
so I'm going to go back to the encoder and just hit start streaming so what
this is now going to do is take the stream which in this case both of us are
there turn it over to stream and and if I go back to my previous screen you'll
see it says the encoder is already connected so if I say ok here the player
will load and show me the preview of watch what we're going to see
and they'll exhume me a little bit of delay because there's a round trip
happening and we buffered a little bit for efficient slimming delivery you know
the event will start up in a second here and it looks like both of us are on the
screen and everything looks good so I'm going to click start event now so what
this is now doing is this kicking now screaming so that the audience is now
will see the view we are showing here and and if I wanted to actually change
something here for example Jeremy I wanted to kind of disable your feed
because you were done with your updates and the next speaker was coming and I
could simply undo this from here on the screen and then your camera is now gone
and just like that the fee that you see coming to stream
will also update accordingly so you're in a few seconds here because of a delay
your camera as we will disappear from here very cool why don't we go to your
mobile device because I think there's a lot of updates around mobile and in this
case you'll probably be able you're already pre authenticated on that device
right yes alright so let's go ahead and show the mobile experience on teams
there's some brand new stuff here that's just released it's just in is it in
preview as it released this week so it actually leaves GA so we are live on the
Android app store so you can download the app from there and the iOS app store
is in the middle of approval process it's just show up any day now so I'm
going to click on the more the stree mobile icon here and what you see is it
takes me to my mobile app so one of the cool things we have added with this
mobile app is we really wanted to give a truly on-the-go experience to employees
because most of us are on the go most of the time so we wanted to you to take
videos with you so I can do some cool things here them
but the most most interesting thing is the ability to download videos offline
so truly on-the-go experience could be on the go on a flight where you don't
have internet connectivity so now you can download videos and you can catch up
on all that the CEO meetings or anything else that you wanted to catch up while
you are on the flight ok so from an organization's perspective how can I
manage this help though because I pray I don't want to leave something around
it's got a bunch of offline cached videos can do all the MDM stuff against
that app as well yeah and then that's the beauty of all of this is even though
you're offline it's completely secure the our app is kind of supported by in
tune so as an admin you can set policies who can log in the videos are always
encrypted if somebody loses their phone you can even do a remote wipe very cool
so and what other MDM solutions do we support so we do support in tune and
other things that are compatible with that format like mobile around here
so you can use any one of those to manage your mobile device very cool so
you can find and you can download now you can watch videos on a plane if
you're without airplane Wi-Fi what else can you do with the mobile app so what
are the common things we still do today is we actually share links with each
other that's how we share videos sometimes you get a link in email
sometimes somebody sends you in a Yammer private conversation so in this case I
am in Yammer and somebody sent me a video link and in a private conversation
I really don't know what video that is and now I can just simply click it so
stream mobile app supports deep linking now so any link that you get it launches
in the mobile app and it takes you to the video and you can start watching the
video in addition to that I can also do a discover and search so the home screen
on this app is discovered so what that means is all the videos that are
trending around me and I can just quickly see them if I wanted to search a
particular topic or simply click search here and search for like less the azure
and you'll see the same deep search that we are known for in-stream is now
available on mobile as well I found this video because some Satya said the word
azure in the video I can simply click in and start watching from the point where
Satya said answer so same cool capabilities kind of follow out to the
mobile also once I'm down into here if I if I if I like this if I like any other
video here I can simply click and add it to my watch list so watch this is a
pretty powerful concept so if I go to my watch list in my phone here in my
content my watch list really travels with me irrespective of what kind of
device I am on so whether I want to web browser or here so what you see is I
just added a video here and now I'm gonna switch over back to my laptop and
what you'll see is this is my home page here so my content and my watch this
just show up on the home page as well but let's just worry fresh here quickly
ok and you'll see the video I just added on my phone to my watch this will not
show up on my watch list on my device here so this is a test flight 42 number
video so so just this is truly a removable experience very cool very
calming experience alright so now that you're in the four web browser what are
some of the other things that you can do yeah so we also recently added the
ability to spotlight videos so as group owners or as admins you can pick some
important videos that you want to highlight for the entire company or the
group so in this case you'll see this video and the previous video
were sparked led by a spot lit by an admin so the admin really wanted
everybody in the company to kind of know about these videos and watch them so
that's one capability we also updated our SharePoint web part so now a
SharePoint web part is completely responsive and it feels fully integrated
so this is a new SharePoint web part which you can add videos to your
SharePoint I can click Next I can even do touch swipes and stuff like that so
it's completely touch compatible completely it looks at the part of the
web page now all right so very cool stuff lots of updates in terms of
discoverability spotlight in your content mobile experiences the live
events there's some other things that we've done I think we've got a lot of
admins among us or anybody not been in the audience Oh
most people I think so when you show us what's new for our audience here the
admins sure so let me go back to stream here one thing to point out too is where
to find the admin Center so it's within the stream the gear here you can pop
that down and finally admin settings so if you are an admin and and only global
admins will have a tenant admins will have access to this I couldn't go and
click on admin settings but from here you can add other people who you want to
be able to manage stream on your behalf so I can add multiple administrators
which I've done in this case you just saw spotlight videos so I can as an
admin now go and spotlight videos on the home page so you can do by clicking add
video and searching for the name or pasting a URL both of them work and then
once you are here you can reorder the videos and recharge sequence they show
here as well finally not finally but we also launched life events recently so as
an admin it's important for you to know what's going on and set policies around
that so you can now go here and add users who are able to do live events and
in addition to that you can also see which are the events that are live right
now so we close both our events out so there's nothing live right now but in
the upcoming you'll see anything else that is scheduled in the near future as
well then company policy is a pretty cool concept as well so you have almost
always have some guidelines for people or employees in your company and what
kind of content they should be uploading and whatnot so now you can just simply
place the URL here and when you flip this to on everybody who tries to upload
a content will have to actually read the policy and accept it before they can
upload and stream completely supports auditing capabilities as well as a part
of offices your admin center so all these things are audited for you to kind
of take a look at later one more thing I will show you here is users details so
as you probably know stream as a storage quota which is
500 gigs per tenant and half a gig per user which is all pool as one large
quota so just just to slow down so that's 500 gigs per user right half a
gig per tenant it's the other we don't have 510 gigs pretendin half a gig per
user so it's gonna be a variable amount in terms of the total you get with your
stream account so the reason why he's got 513 is the 500 gigs for the tenant
and we've got a 25 user demo tenant so another madman you can even register for
notifications if something was getting close to your coder you can find out
about that to work things really quick content creation so we now have more
granular controls and on this it was a big ask from all of you guys so now you
can actually control who can create channels separately from who can upload
videos so there are two different settings now so I can flip either one of
them on and off and pick a set of people who can do this
and finally caching is super important I know everybody is almost always worried
about network when it comes to videos so we do now support we always stream
always supported native cached proxy solutions but we now also have three
other partners in the space who provide EC the end solutions or Sdn solutions
which is the enterprise CDN which which is inside your firewall you can simply
pick one of these providers here and once you work with them and have a
license from them you'll be it will be one-click integration from a stream
perspective and you start utilizing that and these solutions are either peer
assisted or multicast or cache proxy so finally the date of privacy is something
else that's that's pretty new now everything as you mentioned it's it's
auditable as you mentioned above but now you can actually get to gdpr compliance
with us and you can be able to do things like delete user content and accounts
from the stream service so you've got the right to be forgotten in those types
of things integrated here as well right correct so you can actually as an admin
export that uses activity for any user so they require it or you require it
very simply in a CSV format and take it out and as you said if somebody is
actually wants to be forgotten and you delete them from Active Directory you
can come here and also clean all their associations with stream however we
don't delete the content because the content really belongs to the company
but just we just delete the user references from the content so very good
stuff lots of updates really across the board from the live events that we saw
both using an encoder or doing the lis quick start with with Microsoft teams
also the things that we saw in the mobile app as well as the Advent
experiences but if you wanted to get started with stream how do I find it
where do I learn more yeah I mean the best way to try it out is with the
recent announcement Stream is pretty much practically available in all of his
SKUs so all education students who just go to your waffle or what we call the
app launcher click on the stream tile and from there you can get to stream and
if you can't find that for some reason just go to stream door microphone and
login with your corporate credentials and and of course you should go to the
App Store's you can definitely go to Android app so right now and download
our app and of course iOS is coming shortly as all thanks for showing if you
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