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Copper Contributor

Jan 18, 2023

MS Forms - embedded stream vidoes for externals don't work

Hi all, In short, I want to use Forms to create exams that will then be sent/released to people outside of our organization. If I add a video now (with the buildin Stream URL feature), external peo...

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LGeorgiIT

Copper Contributor

Feb 02, 2023

Yes, thats a pitty.

I read somewhere that Stream actually have problems to share videos in Forms without any permissions (for external exams for example). I played also around and tried to use OneDrive links (what sometimes seems to work better than the Stream URL's). But i still have issues that even logged in users can't see the videos because different sharepoint errors (mostly permission errors) or the browsers need to open the video in a new tab (Firefox).

And all this without any use of a complicated permission system in our organisation. Just make a form, put a video on Stream, share it with "Organisation Members" and then share the form with them. After all this i have 4 different results on 4 different browsers. Sorry Microsoft, but this is a mess.

I also spend alot of time to make nice forms for externals. Totaly senceless..

Don't get me wrong, in my eyes MS Forms is a really nice software and works like a charm - until u try to put a simple video in it 😞

Magnus_Spjelkavik

Copper Contributor

Sep 15, 2023

I have also just spent an entire morning doing exactly what you describe with no working results. I've tried sharing via Steam, Google Drive Onedrive and so on. The link works fine even in an incognito browser but not in Microsoft forms. If I publish the video on Youtube, it works, but then on the other hand I get a lot of advertising. Everything else in the form works great except for the small detail with the video. I also tried turning the document into a Google form, but unfortunately Google has no support for embedding a video at all, only a link to one. It's a shame that our company pays for Office 365 and yet the form doesn't work properly...

LGeorgiIT
Copper Contributor
Sep 18, 2023
Yes, and until now no solution or even a single sign of life from Microsoft.
- pmagallon
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 25, 2023
  LGeorgiIT I have been having this problem on and off for some reason. It has something to do with the permissions of the main file that seems to revert back after setting it up. I am not sure what is causing the error. But it probably helps to use your own drive with access to MS Streams.