Contents tagged with Windows Media Services
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Updating browscap.ini for Internet Explorer 8 and 9
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 Media Services Web Administration site on the remote Windows Media server, IIS returned a Web page that incorrectly identified the Internet Explorer Web browser as a Netscape Web browser.
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Using HTTP for Streaming and Downloading from the Same Computer
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 on the same computer, you can't stream by using HTTP. If you try to configure HTTP streaming by enabling the WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol plug-in in Windows Media Services, you'll get an error that looks something like this:
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Windows Media Server or Web Server?
As promised in Chris Knowlton's Blog, we have an updated document that compares digital media content delivery from Windows Media servers (running Windows Media Services 2008) and Web servers (running IIS 7.0). You can find it here.