"A security problem has occurred" is the exact text of the message.
PowerPoint 2003 sp1
The link is
https://www.tx.ngb.army.mil/
Bingo.
If you visit the site from a browser rather than a link in PPT, one or both of the
following happen:
Security message regarding the certificate on the site:
- The certificate for "
www.tx.ngb.army.mil" is signed by the unknown Certificate
Authority "NGTXWS-WAS02". It is not possible to verify that this is a valid
certificate
That may or may not be relevant. The biggie is that the site's password protected.
As soon as you hit it, you're asked for username and password.
PowerPoint doesn't cope with that.
There's a way of embedding the username and password in the url but it'd then be
visible to anyone who has the PPT file. I doubt you want to do that ... sorta
blows the whole notion of security out of the water.
How about this dodge though:
Instead of hyperlinking to the site, make it an Action Setting of Run Program and
plug this in for the program to run:
cmd /c "start
https://www.tx.ngb.army.mil/"
That starts a dos box, tells it to fire up your URL in the default browser then
exit the dos box. You see a quick flash 'o DOS then the browser comes up and
there's your login prompt. You can fill it in there rather than embedding it in
the PPT.
