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Microsoft Stream on SharePoint

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Microsoft Stream on SharePoint

The current Stream stores videos in SharePoint and OneDrive — what changed from Stream Classic and how to use it.

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Stream (on SharePoint) in practice

Every video stored in OneDrive or SharePoint can play in the modern Stream player without any special handling:

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Teams meeting recordings

When a Teams meeting is recorded, the recording is automatically saved to Stream-on-SharePoint — specifically, to the organiser's OneDrive (for non-channel meetings) or the channel's SharePoint site (for channel meeting…

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Stream web app

The Stream web app at microsoftstream.com (redirecting to stream.cloud.microsoft) is a portal-style experience for browsing your video content across the tenant. It surfaces:

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What Stream Classic did differently

For historical context: Stream Classic had its own backend storage, its own permission model (independent of SharePoint), its own retention, and its own admin portal. None of that exists in Stream (on SharePoint), which…

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Live events

Microsoft has consolidated live broadcasting into Town Halls in Teams (covered in its own guide), succeeding both Stream live events and Teams Live Events.

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Storage and quota implications

Because video files are large and now count as ordinary SharePoint/OneDrive content rather than living in a segregated Stream Classic storage pool, a tenant with a lot of recorded meetings and training content can see i…

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