Shaun Cassells at MyITForum.com

Make the MMS 2007 DVD playable off a network share

The following are the steps needed to modify your Microsoft Managment Summit 2007 DVD playable from a network share.  Note: the content of the DVD is protected.  As such make sure this content is only available to those approved to view the DVD (translation leave me alone DCMA zealots)

The reason for this post, is if you do not make the change in step 6.  you will get an error like \\booker\mms-2007\dvd not able to be played.

1. Grab your trust (and now dusty) MMS 2007 DVD
2. Create a network share somewhere (default rights of read are great)
3. Copy the entire contents of the DVD to the Share
4. On the network share open the bin directory
5. Right click on engine.js and remove the read only attribute (make it writeable)
6. Scroll down to line 50
1. Orginal Line:
• var LocalTestPath = 'File:\\\\Booker\\MMS-2007\\DVD';
2. Modify the line to your share location
• var LocalTestPath = 'File:\\\\SERVER\\Share';
7. Distribute link to your coworkers and have them execute the default.hta

Enjoy