Microsoft Stream (Classic) retirement date and guides

Update 30th June 2023: Stream (Classic) retirement date extended to 15th April 2024
Microsoft: “As mentioned in previous message center posts (MC516263, February ’23), Microsoft is retiring Stream (Classic). Some of the retirement dates for Stream (Classic) have been extended. The new retirement date is April 15, 2024. Certain parts of the service will retire sooner unless you take action, so make sure you review the retirement timeline, prepare your users for this change, and start migrating. The successor service Stream (on SharePoint) is currently available for all customers to begin using. Encourage your users to upload and manage videos in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Viva Engage directly.

See the full retirement timeline for more details: Migration & retirement timeline“. Ref: MC617074.

TL;DR:
Microsoft will retire the classic version of Stream on 15^th February 15th April 2024 . Some parts of the service will retire sooner unless your organisation takes action. For example, you will be blocked from uploading new videos on 15^th May 2023 and will not be able to access Stream (Classic) at all after 15^th October 2023. The new service is referred to as Stream (on SharePoint).

Details:
Microsoft recommend that your organisation:

• Begins using Stream (on SharePoint)
• Directs users to upload videos to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer,
• Put a plan in place for migration of existing videos

Microsoft: “Stream (on SharePoint) brings your users many of the capabilities of Stream (Classic) while allowing them to record and play videos directly in many everyday work and school apps such as Teams, Office.com, Yammer, Viva, PowerPoint, and SharePoint”.

Stream (on SharePoint) highlights: 

• Easily manage video files with the same security, admin controls, multi-geo support, compliance (eDiscovery, legal hold, retention, and data loss prevention policies), permissions, and sharing controls as the rest of your files in SharePoint and OneDrive
• Record videos with advanced tools directly in the camera like background blur or replace, inking, text, audio only, and teleprompter
• Search for videos anywhere in Microsoft 365. You can now find videos and Teams meeting recordings across Microsoft 365 by searching keywords
• Find what you need quickly on the Stream start page in Office. The new start page shows recent, shared, and favourite videos, with playlists coming soon (the Stream start page doesn’t show you videos in Stream (Classic) 
• View Teams Meeting Recordings with transcripts, chapters, timeline markers, speaker attribution, and comments
• Create custom page, site, and portal experiences to feature videos as part of your intranet and Viva Connections 
• Share videos the same way you would any other file in Microsoft 365 with support for Guests, People in your Organisation links, or unauthenticated external sharing with “anyone” links
• Get analytics per video, for all the videos in a site, or see who has watched your video. 
• Add videos to the Viva Connections Feed
• Use APIs based on the Microsoft Graph Files API for basic video file operations

Availability:
Retirement date is 15^th February 15th April 2024. Check for updates here: https://aka.ms/StreamClassicRetireTimeline

Source, related links, and references:

• Source of information on this page: MC496849 and MC516263
• Stream retirement and timeline overview and migration tool details.
• Learn about the migration tool
• Step by Step guide to run the migration tool – Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn
• Stream (Classic) migration settings – Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn
• Migration details – Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn
• Migration strategies for moving from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) – Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn
• Stream (Classic) video report
• Settings (coming soon) to delay block-upload and disablement
• IT admin overview of Stream (on SharePoint)
• Stream (on SharePoint) adoption and end user guides
• Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) comparison
• Overview of migrating from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) – Microsoft Stream | Microsoft Learn

Check status:
Migration from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) timeline on Microsoft Learn

Page originally published:
18^th January 2023 and kept up to date.