✨Get embed code for video in SharePoint or OneDrive

Marc Mroz 

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I would like to comment the need for the public embedding feature.

Just as background information - I work for a vocational college with roughly 400+ staff and 10000 students ranging from 16-60 years of age and 20 different vocational branches. We also have many different ways of studying (classroom, online, hybrid, apprenticeship...). We have M365 package for everyone. Intranet is based on Sharepoint, public website on Wordpress, LMS on Moodle. In addition we use many different formats / platforms (for example H5P, ThingLink...) with our study materials, marketing, communication and so on.

Couple of principles we are trying to go by.

• No OneDrive for materials (Video or otherwise) because of the risk of all the links and embeddings dying when the person leaves the organization.
• instead we use Teams / SharePoint sites for storeing materials and then (with proper rights - usually "everyone with a link") share links and/or embed materials from there into other platforms.

The problem is that links work but embedding does not. So there is no logical reason for embedding not working. There is no information security / data protection reason because that would cause also the linking to not work. There seems to be some rather silly technical limitation in the embedding feature that prevents embedding with "everyone with a link" / "public" kind of user right.

Every video platform (and other cloud material platform) has this feature and I'm in slight disbelief that Stream (and SharePoint in general) seems to be missing this core functionality. I would argue that most M365 customers would welcome this because they do not want to be paying and using several video platforms for different use cases.