I have previously written a series of articles on how we stream media files and deliver these through SharePoint (Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3) but these are all based in our MOSS 2007 environment now that we are moving over to SharePoint 2010 I thought I would give you a heads up on ASX files and 2010.
We were horrified to find that when we click on an ASX file in SharePoint 2010 it did not stream the file as in 2007 but only gave us the option to save or cancel as illustrated below
Now we have found a way around this you can either change the file extension from ASX to WMV and then it works or go to Central Administration |Application Management | Manage Web Applications highlight the web application that hosts your media library and click on general settings
Once you have done that scroll down to the “Browser file handler” section
The out of the box setting is set to strict change this to permissive and then click OK no IIS reset is required and now when you click on an ASX file your video will stream.
We have in excess of 4500 so finding this setting was a god send and I do hope that it helps others.
Dave
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Michael Gannotti
July 17, 2010 at 12:35 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Great post!! Thanks for sharing this!!
Atif Siddiqui
October 6, 2011 at 9:07 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Is this actually live video streaming? The reason why I am asking this is because I read on technect.microsoft:
“SharePoint Server 2010 does not support live streaming of audio or video content”
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee414275.aspx
Also can we not use .wmv files?
Thanks
Crowe
February 3, 2012 at 5:08 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
This was a huge help! Thanks for sharing!!
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