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cprothero
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Jun 22, 2017
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Can Channel owners be changed?

I can't find a way to make another user an owner of an already created channel. What happens to a channel when their owner leaves the organization? Even if it continues working it looks pretty lame ...
  • Marc Mroz's avatar
    Marc Mroz
    Jun 22, 2017

    You are correct we do not have a way to change the channel owner. We display the person that created the channel originally. 

     

    For group channels any of the contributors to the group can change channel settings/add/delete them.

    But for companywide channels only the person who created the channel and the Stream Admins can change infoabout or delete the channel.

     

    This isn't ideal, I agree with you.

    Could you add your ideas about what we should do with channel onwners/creators to the Stream Ideas forum so others can vote/comment on them?

     

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Ideas/idb-p/StreamIdeas 

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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jul 12, 2017
Another reason I continue to advocate for the O365 Video model in Stream. Having a stream channel as part of an O365 Group is an ok feature, but at the end of the day it should not be the primary mechanism, Video Portals are majority curated things. 'diy' as you put it has pros, but lots of cons as well, our organization doesnt work like that either.
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Bill Blais
Iron Contributor
Mar 01, 2018

I agree with Brent Ellis, here. Connecting to a group is definitely a good feature, but it should not be the requirement -- nor should the only other option be 'companywide'. I can imagine a situation where Marc Mroz's point of a 'Stream only' group might answer this, but without more details can't be sure.

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    Marc Mroz
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    Mar 02, 2018

    Bill Blais - Just to add a little more detail on the concept we are looking into for "Stream only groups"...

     

    The new group type wouldn't be connected to an O365 Group.

    It would have 3 roles where you could assign people control over the group (Owners, Contributors, Viewers).

    At each of the 3 roles you can assign both individual users or AD security groups.

    Everything else about the group will function nearly the same as the current O365 based groups in Stream today. The stream only group would get a home page, ability to have channels in the group, etc.

    • Bill Blais's avatar
      Bill Blais
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 02, 2018

      Marc Mroz - Any word on the 'Stream-only groups' concept? This would be huge for us (and others, I imagine).

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      Bill Blais
      Iron Contributor
      Mar 05, 2018

      Marc Mroz That sounds like it would answer the single biggest roadblock to our users implementing this! Need to see it in action, of course, but this definitely sounds like the right direction. Any timeline on this or is it really 'just an idea'?

       

      For what it's worth, our use case is this: We're an educational institution with instructors who want to provide videos (classes, presentations, etc.) through our 3rd-party LMS.

       

      Currently, unless I'm wrong, there are only 2 ways to do this (and neither is great):

      1. Using Groups
        1. Create a full O365 Group with a Stream channel for each separate course
        2. Manually add all the students for each course to relevant Group(s) so they can see the videos (and explain to them to ignore all the other stuff that comes with a Group because it is not used in this context)
        3. Upload the videos and embed them in the LMS
      2. As Individual Videos
        1. Upload videos and manually add all the students of a given course to each video
          1. Yes, this step technically may be simplified by making each video visible 'companywide', but many of these videos pertain only to specific courses/students and cannot be made that open, so this is really not an option.
        2. Embed videos in LMS

       

      We currently have an educational account with Google, so YouTube is where our instructors are almost universally posting, since these have more effective permission controls.

      • Marc Mroz's avatar
        Marc Mroz
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        Mar 05, 2018

        I'm hoping that we'll have time to do "Stream only groups" in Q2/Q3 (or sooner).

         

        You are correct in the options you listed. 

         

        For option 1 (using groups), there are a good deal of schools that are using groups for each class. I believe many of those schools use the "School data sync" service to keep groups/classes/rosters in sync. https://sds.microsoft.com/

         

        On your last point, what kind of other permissions controls do you feel we are missing that would help in your scenario?

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