SharePoint 2010 – Embedding Youtube Videos in Wikis – Media Failed to Load

You’d think this would be easier, but…no.

This issue popped up when a client was trying to embed a youtube video in his shiny new wiki by editing the HTML & adding the <object> embed code. Sadly, the code was stripped once the page was saved and he turned to me for help.

I then tried to do Insert > Audio & Video > Change Media > From Address and enter the youtube video address which seemed like a logical way to do things. Unfortunately, I was only greeted by the error message “Media failed to load.”

What???!!! Of course this isn’t going to be easy. Eventually, after digging around, I did find a solution.

Essentially you have 2 options for embedding video:

1. Upload a video onto the SharePoint site & embed using the Media Web Part
2. Embed a Youtube (or other source) video using the Content Editor Web Part

Option 1 works very easily:

1. Edit Page & Check Out
2. Click “Insert” > “Audio & Video”
3. A Media Web Part appears on the page. Click the center of the web part & a new Medio Options ribbon shows up
4. Click “Change Media” > “From Computer”
5. Browse to the video file on your computer (It gets uploaded to the “Site Assets Library” by default, but you can change this)
6. Save & Check In
7. Click the video to play it.

Option 2 is a little trickier, but does work:

1. Edit Page & Check Out
2. Click “Insert” > “Web Part”
3. Click the “Content & Media” section & pick the “Content Editor Web Part”
4. Click the down arrow at the top right of the web part > “Edit Web Part”
5. Click the web part and enter some text about the video (if you don’t when you edit HTML in the next step there will be a bunch of junk and it will be hard to figure out where to insert your embed text)
6. On the Ribbon > Editing Tools > Format Text, you will see an HTML menu. Select “Edit HTML on this menu”
7. Paste your <object…> embed code here
8. Save & Check In
9. Click the video to play it.

SharePoint 2010 Create New Web Application links/buttons disabled??

Saw this happening off and on in my 2010 environment. Issue would clear when machine was rebooted. NOT a good maintenance plan!

Luckily, ran into this post that worked! http://socialsp.com/2009/12/03/links-not-enabled-on-sharepoint-2010-central-administration-site/#comment-16

Woo hoo!

SharePoint Server not redirecting to default.aspx

Our SharePoint 2010 Enterprise server all of a sudden stopped redirecting to the actual .asx pages of the site when we were navigating to just the server name or foldernames.
When i go to http://spsite/pages/default.aspx the page appears. If i go to http://spsite/ the page does not redirect, and instead shows a 404 error.
Some googling led me to this answer, which worked(!), but I realized there really wasn’t good documentation on how to make the changes for IIS7.x, so here they are:
1. Open IIS Manager (Start > Run > inetmgr)
2. Click on the server node
3. Click “ISAPI and CGI Restrictions”
4. Verify that you have the following web service extensions allowed:

5. If they are not all allowed, right click + add the missing dlls.
Not sure why these weren’t set up before, but this solved the issue for me. Hope it can help someone else!