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Embedding YouTube Videos in a SharePoint Page With The Page Viewer Web Part

Scott — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:33:27 +0000

There are a few different ways to present YouTube videos to users in a SharePoint 2010 portal. The trusty Silverlight Media Player web part (if you want to rip the media down locally) or a content editor linked to an external file are both viable options. But for the common page editor/content owner, those aren’t the most user friendly options available.

Enter the Page Viewer web part (aka the iFrame web part). How does this technological wonder better our lives? Watch and learn.

Find a YouTube Video. Ricky Gervais’s opening monologue from the 2012 Golden Globes should do nicely. Once you’ve located your target video, click Share, followed by Embed. Leave the window/tab open, we’ll come back to it in a moment..
Go to the page in your SharePoint site where you want to add the video (I’m using a publishing page).
Add a Page Viewer Web Part (located in the Media and Content category).
Open the tool pane. We’ll need to fill in the values for the Link, Height, and Width fields.
Back to our YouTube window/tab, select the embed options you would like to use (480×360 video in my case).
Locate the embed HTML code and copy the URL. It should look like the following:
Back in the window/tab containing your SharePoint page, paste the url to the YouTube video in the Link field in your web part. Adjust the Height and Width fields accordingly. Save your web part options. Your web part should render with the video inline.
Publish/Save/Stop Editing your page and bask in the glory of your embedded YouTube video (without the use of a content editor or any external text file).

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The Silverlight Update That Will Not Go Away

Scott — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:36:09 +0000

Microsoft currently has a slew of updates available for Silverlight. If, like me, you don’t want to see/install Silverlight on your production servers (SQL/DC/DNS/etc.), you will find that it is not as easy as hiding one update. Thankfully, the fix is to continue hiding updates.

After KB974331 has been hidden, Silverlight will continue to show as an available optional update, until the following updates are hidden as well:

Yes, that is a total of 7 updates that need to be hidden to no longer be nagged to install Silverlight.

Netflix and Vista Media Center

Scott — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:36:54 +0000

Microsoft recently recently released/pushed out a new add-on for interacting with Netflix, allowing for the viewing of “instant” movies from within the Media Center 10ft. UI.

One quirk that you may run into is that videos are not playing after installation. You might need to break out the keyboard, as Silverlight will have opened a dialog behind the Media Center window asking you to enable protected content. Once that hurdle is crossed, it should be smooth sailing.

Netflix in Windows Media Center

[Microsoft Windows: Netflix in Windows Media Center]

[via Hacking Netflix]