Jun 03, 2009
It’s a bit strange that my “back-to-blogging” post is about a new version of Remote Manager considering that my last post, way back in March 2008 was a Remote Manager post as well (I have a good reason for not blogging since then which you’ll see at the...
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Tags: Remote AdministrationIIS 7.0Windows 7Windows Server 2008 R2IIS 7.5
May 14, 2009
I recently updated the Web browser on my Windows Vista computer to Windows Internet Explorer 8 , and immediately discovered that I could no longer remotely administer my Windows Media server by using the updated Web browser. When I tried to open the Windows...
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Tags: Windows Media Services 2008IIS 7.0MediaInternet Explorer 8browscap.inibrowscapBrowserType
May 04, 2009
Web Playlists , an IIS Media Services extension for IIS 7.0, includes an Import ASX Playlist feature that you can use to create server-side playlist copies of your client-side Windows Media Player playlist files. For large playlists, this feature provides...
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Tags: IIS 7.0Web PlaylistsMediaplaylistsIIS Media ServicesWPLASXWindows Media Playermusic
May 03, 2009
I recently encountered the error “The path is not of a legal form.” from the IIS 7.0 Manager, but was unable to find any documentation on the error. Oddly this error didn’t log anything in the System Event Log either. The error sounds like...
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Tags: applicationHost.configConfigurationIIS 7.0
Nov 24, 2008
You can use the Web Playlists feature in IIS Media Services to serve media assets referenced in Web playlist files (files with .isx file name extensions), provided that the media assets (audio and video files) are stored in folders on the Web server computer...
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Tags: IIS 7.0Web PlaylistsMediaIIS Media Services
Oct 03, 2008
For those of you that remember that far back, I released a sample that also filled a need for Windows Vista. Since the original version of Windows Vista did not ship with a user interface for managing logging, and we needed samples of how to build UI...
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Tags: IIS 7SDKUI Moduleextensibilityvistaiis 7.0Logging
Sep 26, 2008
By default, the HTTP Listener (HTTP.sys) for the default Web site in IIS 7.0 listens to all requests coming in on port 80 for all static IP addresses bound to the network adapter (site binding = http:*:80:). Thus, when you install Windows Media Services...
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Tags: Windows Media Services 2008IIS 7.0MediaHTTP
Sep 22, 2008
Some time ago, I tried to start up the IIS Management Console on my Vista machine and I received an exception. After trying a few quick fixes, I gave up. I had several VPC images that I worked from and I didn't particularly need this machine to work when...
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Tags: configurationerrorsvistasp1iis 7.0