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”.
Step 3
Click Run.
Step 4
Press Install.
Step 5
Close the installation dialog.
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.
