Norman, I was considering using MSM to manage our internal tools here at work, and I figured I could point the Repository URL to a UNC directory path, but it seems to not be reading that correctly. I’m not getting the “file could not be found online, creating it” dialog, instead I’m getting the “URL must point at a .msr file” dialog.
I’ve tried direct UNC like \servername\folder\file.msr and also file://servername/folder/file.msr and neither seems to work.
Am I misunderstanding how to use the tool, or is this not possible?
Thanks!
It is not possible as of now… it needs a http URL.
If you have a intranet at work you could use it to host the repository there.
Also sorry I haven’t kept this up to date. It will still be a couple of weeks until I have time again. But I have been doing a lot of brainstorming and have a lot of awesome features already figured out, just need the time to write them
Hope it helps!
Ah bummer! No worries, we’ll figure something out. I’m surprised your tool hasn’t gotten more attention (maybe it has and I’ve just missed it), Seems pretty powerful and would be great if the 30 different locations I get scripts from would all implement repositories so I don’t have to check for updates myself!
Thanks again, everything here looks promising, looking forward to your new features.
Hehe, at this point it has gotten attention mostly from developers. The benefits are greater for them than for end-users. But I think that will change with the new features.
Regarding your problem… it is actually not too difficult to fix. All you need is to run a webserver in your LAN, check out easyphp.org. The companies I have worked for usually had a wiki so that employees could write and edit stuff. All you would need to do is to host the repository in that local server or even wiki page.