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Installing Silverlight 2 on Windows Server 2008

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Windows | Posted on 08-08-2008

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The Olympics are upon us!  I called myself preparing for the Olympics last night by installing Silverlight so I could watch the Oylympics via http://nbcolympics.com.  I’m running Server 2008 and I quickly ran into a problem.  The work around turned out to not be that difficult at all so here is a walk through.

Step 1

Save the Silverlight.exe to your hard drive. Although you can run it directly it doesn’t work because of the default policy set on Server 2008.

Step 2

Right click the Siliverlight.exe and click “Run as administrator”.

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Step 3

Click Run.

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Step 4

Press Install.

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Step 5

Close the installation dialog.

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Step 6

The first time you visit a Silverlight site you’ll be given a security prompt.  I suggest checking the box in the dialog so you don’t get this again.

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