Move your Microsoft Stream content to your country

If Microsoft Stream was not available in your country when you started to use Office 365 and some of your users have shared videos in Stream, the stream content will be stored in the nearest available region. In my case, my Tenant is in Canada are our Stream content is stored in US.

Microsoft Stream content Migration from one country to another is not yet available (as of Feb 24^th 2020).

But if Stream is available in your country, and your content is stored in a different country, you can open a ticket with the Office 365 support to request to delete all your Stream data that is stored in a different country. The next time you are going to store a video to Stream, it will see the Stream is available in your country and will store all the new videos to your country.

Important: In this case all your Stream data/videos will be deleted and will not be moved.  You must make sure that you don’t have any valuable videos in Stream.  If it’s the case you should download all of them and upload them once the storage is in your country.

I am in the process of getting all our Stream content deleted, I will update this article with comments about the experience.

Note:  Recently there was a misleading announcement in the Office 365 that mention that if you turn on Microsoft Teams “Cloud meeting recording” after Stream is available in your country, that all your meeting recordings will be stored in country. This is not exactly true, please refer to this article: https://tremblayse.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/updated-feature-microsoft-stream-cloud-recordings/

Here is more information to help you to know in which region Microsoft Stream is available and where your Stream data is stored:

Stream currently hosts data in the following regions:

• United States
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Australia
• India
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• US Government Community Cloud (GCC)

Stream will host data in the following regions in the future:

• China
• Germany
• GCC-High / GCC-DoD
• Other local regions

To find the region your tenant is in:

• In Stream, Click ? (in the upper right corner
• Click About Microsoft Stream
• Click on Your data is stored in

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/faq

Updated Feature: Microsoft Stream cloud recordings

On January 17th we have received a message about Updated Feature: Microsoft Stream cloud recordings.  I had to read the message a few time and I had a few exchanges with Microsoft employees to understand correctly.

The point that is not clear in the message is this :

If the tenant admin turns Recording ON:

• before the Stream service is available in country

  • all recordings will be stored the in-region storage. If Stream is made available in-country later, any existing and new recordings will continue to be stored in the nearest regional data center.

• after the Stream service is available in country

  • all recordings will be stored in country.

The last sentence is not totally true.

In fact, if you have started to use the Stream Service (in any way, not just meeting recordings) while the service was not available in your Country, all existing and new recordings are already stored in the nearest regional data center (in the US for my tenant that resides in Canada).  This will not change even if “Cloud meeting recording” is turned On after the Stream service is available in your country.

At the moment there does not seem to be a way to move your Stream content from one country to another.

Here is the full message from the message center.

Updated Feature: Microsoft Stream cloud recordings

MC200501, Plan For Change, Published date: 17 janv. 2020

Major Update: Announcement

Applies To: All

Updated February 19, 2020: We are updating the roll-out timeframe to ensure the best experience. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Updated February 13, 2020: We have updated the post to emphasize the default state once this change is made.

Meeting recordings are stored in Microsoft Stream cloud storage. Tenant admins have an option to go the Microsoft Teams admin center to turn ON/OFF “Allow cloud recording” setting for Teams meetings. The recording feature is currently disabled for customers whose Teams data is stored in-country if Microsoft Stream is not available in country. We will be changing this configuration by enabling the recording feature for customers even if Microsoft Stream data residency is not yet in country.

Once enabled ‘Allow cloud recording’ will be OFF by default. This roll-out will respect existing settings.

We will begin rolling this change in mid-March (previously February) and expect to be complete by the end of April (previously March).

Note: This change applies to Teams meeting recordings only. There is a plan for implementing a similar change for Teams live events, and we will communicate via Message center when available.

How does this affect me?

When this configuration change is made the recordings will be stored in the nearest regional data center of Microsoft Stream. This will be the default behavior once the change takes effect. For customers who prefer to store the recordings in-country, it is recommended customers disable the meeting recording feature in Teams admin center and re-enable once Microsoft Stream is deployed in that country.

How will Teams meeting recordings work after the change?

If the tenant admin turns Recording ON:

• before the Stream service is available in country
• all recordings will be stored the in-region storage. If Stream is made available in-country later, any existing and new recordings will continue to be stored in the nearest regional data center.
• after the Stream service is available in country
• all recordings will be stored in country.

Will we change this behavior of saving meeting recordings to in country storage instead of in-region storage after Stream service is available in country?

Yes, new tenants and existing tenants that have not yet enabled meeting recordings will save new recordings in the in country storage after Stream is available in country. However, any tenant that enables meeting recordings BEFORE Stream is available in country will continue to use the in-region storage even after Stream is available in country.

Will recordings be migrated from in-region to in country storage after Stream service is available in country?

• No, recordings will not be migrated.
• If a tenant admin has turned ON recording before Stream service is made available in country, then all past and new recordings after Stream service is available will continue to be stored in the in-region storage.

How do I know which region my tenant is in and where is the data stored for Microsoft Stream?

If you use Microsoft Stream and your Office 365 tenant is in a region outside of regions where Stream is currently deployed to, your data will be stored in the nearest geographic region.

To find the region your tenant is in:

1. In Stream, click ? in the upper right corner.
2. Click About Microsoft Stream.
3. Click Your data is stored in.

For more general information on where data is stored across services in Office 365, see Where is your Office 365 data located.

Which new countries will have Microsoft Stream enabled?

Microsoft Stream will be adding Stream storage instances in more regions and locations over time. Here is the list of regions Stream plans to support by end of 2020 (available regions in italics ):

• UK, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, Norway, France, Singapore, UAE, China, South Korea, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden

How do I turn off Teams meeting recording for all users in my tenant?

• Select Meeting Policies -> Global and turn off “Allow cloud recording”.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

When this change takes effect, you will need to verify that “Allow cloud recording” is set for the experience you prefer.

 

Image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience

It’s been a long wait for this, but at last image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience is coming soon in a tenant near you!  See the announcement received in the Office 365 Message center. 

Updated Feature: Image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience

MC198528, Prevent or Fix Issues, Published date: 18 déc. 2019

Updated February 19, 2020: We have updated the roll-out timeline and apologize for any inconvenience.

We are introducing the ability to resize an image in the modern SharePoint experience.

• We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in early January 2020.
• The roll out will be complete by the end of March (previously beginning of February 2020).

This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 57812.

How does this affect me?

The modern SharePoint site is comprised of web parts, the building blocks of the page. The Image web part lets an editor insert an image on a page, whether from their SharePoint site, their computer, or an external web location.

With this update, page editors will also be able to resize images in the image web part.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

There is no action you need to take to prepare for this change, but you might consider updating your user training and notifying your help desk.