Make the MMS 2008 DVD playable off a network share and website
The following are the steps needed to modify your Microsoft Management Summit 2008 DVD playable from a network share or IIS website. 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)
- Grab your trust (and now dusty) MMS 2008 DVDs (two of them)
- Create two network shares somewhere (default rights of read are great)
- Copy the entire contents of the DVD to a different share for each disk
- Disc 1 is 7.87 gb (dual layer)
- Disc 2 is 1.83 gb
Great news, to play off the network, just double click index.html and you are good to go.To make playable via IIS
- Right click on My Computer >> Manage
- Navigate to Services and Applications >> Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager >> Web Sites >> Default Web Site
- Locate your network share name (mine is MMS2008)
- Right click >> Properties
- Documents tab
- Add… a default content page
- Index.html
- click ok
Congrats you can now execute over the intranet via IE.Http://ServerName/ShareName/
Enjoy
Update: to play video you need to install Silverlight. If you don't want to or are not able to you can play the wmv files directly
\\ServerName\ShareName\assets\video\SessionNumber\*.wmv