1. Microsoft Office Stream
2. Microsoft Stream Office 365 Groups
3. Office 365 Video Vs Stream
4. Stream Microsoft 365 Sign In

Work with videos and live events in Microsoft Stream. Use a screen reader to play videos in Microsoft Stream. Use a screen reader to upload and manage your videos in Microsoft Stream. Use a screen reader to add subtitles or captions to your Microsoft Stream video. Use a screen reader to add a survey, poll, or quiz to a Microsoft Stream video. Microsoft Stream works well with other Office 365 apps like Teams, SharePoint, OneNote, and Yammer, giving even more ways to discover more relevant content. If you are using Office 365 Video and want to transition to Microsoft Stream, see Transition from Office 365 Video. 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.

Important

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.

Overview of live events

You can create live events using Microsoft Stream across the organization. You can schedule, produce, and deliver live events for a variety of scenarios such as companywide events, leadership updates and more. Live events enable producers to curate and control the content that is broadcast to an audience.

Tip

Do you have a question about or need help with live events? Contact our Live Events Assistance team to get started!

You can create, schedule and run live events using a single bitrate RTMP or RTMPS stream from an encoder – we’ll take care of all the transcoding for adaptive bitrate delivery to your viewers.

Just like any other video in Stream, you can make the live event open to your entire company or limit the access to specific groups. This provides an end-to-end creation and viewing experience inside of Stream.

After the event, the video will be available on demand with intelligent features including:

• Speech-to-text and closed captions

• Transcript search and timecodes let you quickly find moments that matter in a video.

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. Seamless integration across Microsoft 365 means that you can use Stream to deliver highly produced, studio-quality events. Learn more about live events in Microsoft 365.

Ignite 2019 session: M365 live events - How to produce an event, architecture, admin, which tool when

If you missed our 'M365 live events across Teams, Yammer, & Stream' 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.

Get started

Ensure that users you want to be able to create live events have the granted permissions required to create a live event.

Microsoft Office Stream

By default, everyone in your organization can create a live event, however a Stream admin can restrict access. Learn more about live event administration.

1. Go to Admin settings > Live events

2. Click Create > Live event. Follow the instructions in Create a live event in Stream

Monitor your event

As an organizer or producer you can monitor the audience engagement in real-time. Quickly toggle between audience and producer views to see different screens and monitor analytics like current viewers, likes and total views for your event.

Capabilities

The following are capabilities of live events:

^{1 The Stream admin can restrict permissions to create live events.
2 You must be a group owner to create a live event in Yammer.
3 Number of live events and attendee counts are subject to change and dependent on service availability.
4 Live events are subject to storage usage in Microsoft Stream. The size of the post-live encoded top bitrate, used also as the downloadable recording, is used towards storage quota. Licensing overview.}

Live events in Microsoft 365 is a highly available service and you can expect good performance at scale. In the very unlikely scenario that results in failover being required, live events using external encoding will not have redundancy and are not be recoverable.

See also

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

To see what has released recently for Microsoft Stream, see the Stream release notes: https://aka.ms/StreamNew

Note

Microsoft Stream Office 365 Groups

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.

Office 365 Video Vs Stream

Note

Stream Microsoft 365 Sign In

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.