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Insert Stream (SharePoint) Link in PowerPoint
Good Morning everyone, and a Happy New Year, first of all! We have recently started using MS Teams for Webinars we conduct with external customers. As we are using PowerPoint Live for sharin...
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
MicrosoftWe are working on this ability to add a video from SharePoint into a ppt deck like works for classic. It's going slowly due to hard technical issues and performance issues.
We are working on it but feel free to add your idea and votes to our new feedback portal: https://aka.ms/streamideas
However you can get a similar experience by uploading the video inside the ppt itself. That works with PowerPoint live in a teams meeting to play back the video on everyone's machine directly. Not sure that works with webinars or not through.
Marc Mroz yeah but that makes the .pptx file size huge
- Exactly. It also makes each video a stand alone resource so if you use one video in 6 documents, you have to update all 6 documents and upload 6 video files into one drive whenever a video changes. This is absolutely not a reasonable solution. Do better Microsoft.
- Tgrano I want to recommend that you work with a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint expert on how to manage files in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams. Your comments would indicate that you do not understand the platform because your comment about having to update a video and a document by replicating it 5 more times is totally not the way the platform works. If you are doing that, then you do not understand it.
If your resources are standalone resources it is because that is how you are choosing to do it. There are better ways. There are web parts that will aggregate videos from wherever they are stored - the same with documents. You can use a SharePoint website to store your files and you can link to it or pull from that library to display a video pretty much anywhere you want to in your environment if you use the right web part or link.
If you want to share more details on your use case, I'm sure folks here can give you some recommendations on a better way to organize your videos and link to them. Same for documents. One of the best practices using SharePoint is that you have one file and you do not make copies of it anywhere. You store it in one place even though you may be accessing that file from multiple locations - and even multiple applications within the M365 environment.
