OneDrive embedded PowerPoint slides showing blank page or error
I embed PowerPoint files from OneDrive into eLearning courses using the standard embed links. As of today, all of them have stopped working. All my embedded PowerPoint slides are currently down across several live eLearning courses. What I've tried: Tried in a private/incognito browser window - still broken Created a brand new embed link from scratch - still broken Tried a completely different PowerPoint file - still broken So it doesn't seem to be a problem with one specific file or link - it's affecting all my embeds at once. What I see: Sometimes the page shows: "Something went wrong. This is a temporary issue, so try again in a few minutes." with reference codes: Ref A: 137479770EE248B2BD8767C1500F6314 Ref B: SG2EDGE2019 Ref C: 2026-08-25T04:41:15Z Other times the page just loads completely blank, with no error message at all. I also checked the browser's technical console, and it shows one of the files OneDrive needs to display the slides is failing to load (a 404 error on Microsoft's side), which is likely why the page won't display anything. Has anyone else run into this, or is there a known issue being tracked? Happy to share more detail if it's useful.
Can I Use OneDrive to Share PowerPoint Files With a Broad Audience
I am a recently retired professor. Several years ago, I wrote an introductory Statistics textbook called Clear-Sighted Statistics. This work is an OER (Open Educational Resource). It is available on the CUNY Commons and the U of South Florida OER website. This work has 19 chapters. Each chapter has Excel files. To date, this work has over 40,000 downloads. Unfortunately, I am not able to upload my PowerPoint lecture files to the two OER websites mentioned above. These files are such too large. My Questions: 1) Is it possible for me to use OneDrive to share this OER's 19 PowerPoint files with a large audience when I do not know who I am sharing with? I have 1TB of storage space that I get with the Microsoft 365 subscription that I buy. (As a retiree, my university no longer gives me a subscription.) 2) My work has a Creative Commons license. I want people to download my PowerPoints. I allow people to share derivatives of my work for non-commercial purposes only as long as they give me attribution. But I do not want anyone to change the files that exist on OneDrive, nor do I want them to add any files on my OneDrive site. How do I do this? Thanks, in advance, for your suggestions. Tiki-10025
