Starting Tuesday November 18 Microsoft started rolling out Office 365 Video to customers who have opted in to the First Release programme (if you haven’t you will need to wait a little longer!)

Kloud has built video solutions on Office 365 in the past so it’s great to see Microsoft deliver this as a native feature of SharePoint Online – and one that leverages the underlying power of Azure Media Services capabilities for video cross-encoding and dynamic packaging.

In this blog post we’ll take a quick tour of the new offering and show a simple usage scenario.

Basic Restrictions

In order to have access to Office 365 Video the following must be true for your Office 365 tenant:

• SharePoint Online must be part of your subscription and users must have been granted access to it.
• Users must have E1, E2, E3, E4, A2, A3 or A4 licenses.
• There is no…