We had discovered an issue in PowerPoint’s desktop application that appeared after one of the Microsoft 365 (Office) updates. When PowerPoint documents were opened as Read-Only, using links built using Office URI Schemes, and the user tried to edit them by clicking “Edit Presentation” button:
An error was displayed:
This was not a bug in MetaShare, but was effecting our users, because MetaShare opens documents in Read-Only mode to prevent accidental updates. We made a temporary change so that MetaShare opened PowerPoint documents in the desktop app directly in edit mode. After Microsoft resolved the issue, we decided to wait some time to allow all our clients to install necessary Office updates, before finally reverting the workaround on August 8th.
Reported: 7 March 2023, 3:00 pm (CET)
Resolved: 8 August 2023, 10:00 pm (CET)