Adding VBrick Streaming Video to SharePoint

As a follow up to my previous post about how to add streaming video to Blackboard and Moodle, I wanted to explain how to embed VBrick’s Enterprise Media System (VEMS) directly into a SharePoint site. Similar to how we integrate with Blackboard and Moodle, you can also embed links to VBrick streaming video in SharePoint, but the true power lies in SharePoint’s ability to embed an entire website directly into a Sharepoint site. Using the “Page Viewer Web Part“  feature you can add the entire VEMS Viewing Portal for access to all of your live and on-demand video without having to leave SharePoint. You can also simply embed a single player for content specific viewing. Below is an example of how to add VBrick’s Enterprise Media System into SharePoint.

Here is an example of what VEMS embedded into SharePoint via the Page Viewer Web Part:

To embed VEMS in a  SharePoint site as a site administrator, simply create or edit any page then click “Site Actions”, then “Edit Page”, then “Add Web Part” and select “Page Viewer Web Part”. Once your Web Part is on the page, click “Modify Shared Web Part”. You will then be able to pick “Web Page” and provide the VEMS URL that you want to embed into Sharepoint.

There are some advanced options including setting the size of the embedded Web Part that are useful if you are embedding a VEMS video player page as well. Finally, I recommend that you enable the Single Sign-on feature of VEMS so that the user credentials can be shared from your company’s Active Directory across both the SharePoint site and the VEMS pages that are embedded within it.

Today our customers can leverage VBrick Professional Services team to configure their VEMS and SharePoint systems to work  together. We take a formal “Project Management” approach to make sure that your deployment will be a success. Since VBrick relies upon both SharePoint and VEMS for our own internal corporate communications needs, we have substantial experience with bringing these systems together.

We plan to develop an even tighter integration with SharePoint and with Office Communicator so that adding VBrick-powered video infrastructure to Microsoft applications is easy and so that employees can be one-click away from great video content. Keep on eye on this space.