Office 365 Video is an intranet website
portal where people in an organization can post and view videos. It's a
streaming video service for the organization that's available with SharePoint
Online in Office 365. It's a great place to share videos of executive
communications or recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, or training
sessions.
Features
Channels
Channel admins for Office 365
Video can create channels to organize videos.
Enterprises can have channels for
particular subjects, for example, or for specific groups such as departments or
teams
End users see only the channels that
they have permission to view
Uploading videos
To upload a video, users upload
it to a specific channel.
Users can upload multiple videos
to a channel at the same time.
Anyone in the organization who
has edit permission for a particular channel can upload videos to it
Watching a video
Users can watch videos from where
they are featured on the Office 365 Video home page, and from specific
channels.
When the user selects a video
thumbnail, the video plays right in the browser window
Sharing videos with others
Embed an Office 365 video on
the enterprise's site. Users can display the video on a SharePoint Online site or other
website by adding the embed code for that video to the page where they want the
video to appear.
Post to Yammer. Users can post to
Yammer about a video while they're watching it, and the post will automatically
include a link to the video that they're watching.
Send a link to a video in an
email. To get a link for a video, the users select the video in Office 365 Video and then
copy the URL from the browser address bar.
Discover spotlighted channels and videos
Find the most popular videos
Users can see what videos are most
popular for the entire organization, check the Trending section on the home
page.
Users can see what videos are
particularly popular in a certain channel, check the Trending section on that
channel page.
Find videos that you've uploaded
Search for a video
Channel permissions
There are three types of channel
permissions: owners, editors, and viewers. One must have owner permission to
change permission settings.
Owners - has full control over a channel. They can manage the channel from
the channel settings page, upload videos, delete videos, and delete the
channel.
Editors - has edit permission for a channel. They can upload videos and
delete videos. Then cannot manage the channel settings or delete the channel.
Viewers - can view all of the videos that are in the channel. By default,
everyone in your organization has viewer permission for a channel when the
channel is created.
Client Requirements for Video Streaming
Desktop Requirements
Browser
|
OS
|
Playback Supported
|
IE 11
|
Windows
8.1
|
HTML5
|
IE 11
|
Windows
7
|
Adobe
Flash
|
IE 9 /
10
|
Windows
|
Adobe
Flash
|
Chrome
37+
|
Windows
/ OSX
|
HTML5
|
Firefox
|
Windows
/ OSX
|
Adobe
Flash
|
Safari
8
|
OSX
Yosemite
|
Adobe
Flash
|
Safari
|
Below
OSX Yosemite
|
Adobe
Flash
|
Mobile Requirements
Browser
|
OS
|
Playback Supported
|
IE 11
|
Windows
Phone 8.1
|
HTML5
|
Chrome
|
Android
4.4.4
|
HTML5
|
Safari
|
iOS 6
|
Native
HTML5
|
Scenarios where O365 Video comes in handy