Received the following email today:

We have been working on customizing the Training page. On that page (doc library) we're going to store all our training materials, and we'd like to store our Camtasia "movies" there as well. These movies are annotated screen captures of the steps to perform various tasks. Once recorded and annotated, they are stored as an .exe file that includes the Camtasia viewer, which is the optimal way of doing this.

We discovered that we cannot put an .exe file on the page (in the document library). Is this something that can be changed for our page?

I know you're thinking “that's a nice can of worms you have there.”

The technical answer is yes. Refer to the admin guide.

I would love to hear any arguments in favor of allowing this. This is a completely internal site. The server is controlled by the corporate IS Department. The WSS site in in the Intranet Zone.

My point is that users will develop habits regardless of the location of the server. Telling them that it is OK to download and run this file because it is on our server will lead to them thinking it's alright do this elsewhere.

I welcome your comments.