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.ASPX Files Now Download Instead of Launching from SharePoint
Hello all,
My organization has recently discovered an issue with .aspx files hosted on SharePoint. We've been using them to launch Storyline and Rise files so they act like web pages (like this). ...
To be fair to Microsoft, I suspect this change is to do with tightening up security. I'm a HUGE SharePoint fan and have been from the start BUT, if you think about it... allowing custom scripts to run outside the SharePoint framework is an incredibly dangerous thing to do! It can introduce significant security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to data or execute malicious code.
SharePoint was never designed as an LMS and it really isn't its purpose. We initially flirted with LMS365 in order to provide an LMS that could use the same user database as SharePoint. Which, after all, is a major reason for wanting to include learning and development material on SharePoint - but it was expensive. I don't know if anyone else is using LMS365 now (I think it may have been re-titled)???
Absolutely, John, Microsoft's change is to tighten up security. I, too, love SharePoint, and have for years, and I'm always a fan of tighter security.
We have no need for an LMS for most of our content. We use our organization's LMS for compliance-related training that requires tracking. But the bulk of our training is more just-in-time support for staff, and it's intended to be accessed quickly. It's a support resource, and we know that if staff have to log on to an LMS to access support content, they won't do it. Hence the SharePoint :)
