long story - let's make it short :
I got a new 2003 r2 server (lease it or rent it or whatever the term). the
guy I got it from installed R2 (i think under SPLA license) but didn't copy
the CD or leave it in

Is there an off-the-shelf software package to manage multple windows
media streaming servers, with multiple publishing points and clients?
Something that will aggregate usage by client, show concurrent users,
do transfer by client, etc?

Can I run the WM encoder on the WM server and use both to broadcast a live
event? Or do I need to run on seperate boxes?
I have inherited this WM server and I am new to this stuff. Our WM server
has a fancy capture card, and I'm not sure if the card is intended for

Could someone please advise how can I prevent a visitor (other than one
which I've invited) from accessing a private stream in their Windows Media
Player. I want to be able to authenticate them by handing out user names and
passwords which they will have to use in order to access ...

Hello to the group!
Here's my problem: we've setup a media services server, and it was
working very well until a few days ago. Now when a user plays certain
videos, they start and play for a second, but then abruptly stop. Client

I'm trying to understand how to size the appropriate hardware and bandwidth
requirements that I have.
I have a maximum of 75 concurrent users streaming up to 65 unique streams
meaning there are 65 different videos being streamed at one time. Each video

Hi
I am new the Windows Media services, I want to have restriction to my
streaming
something like,let say i had given one link(mms://myservers.com/clip1) to

Hi all,
Is it possible for the WMS to use an ogg server as a remote stream
server/encoder and redistribute its stream as a wma-like stream? How to join
these two technologies? I get the ogg stream but don't want my clients to

I've been looking everywhere for this:
I have a class in a consoleproject. It sets up a (or several)
Publishing Point(s). I want to enable _Fast Caching_ for these
Publishing Points. Everywhere I look, people say: go to the

   I am trying to stream WMV from our website.  I have encoded the
video at multiple bitrates (256 kbps and 512 kbps) using the Media
Services 9 Encoder from Microsoft.  I have tested it from various
locations, both internally and externally to the network where I am

I'm relaying a stream on a 2003 server sp1
After working fine for hours, the publish point goes down to zero bandwith
and 0 users and there is no way to connect anymore. even with a direct link
to mms://ip/pp . All settings are normal, server is green (running) and no

I tried and fail to send parameters to a wsx file in order to create a
dynamic play-list.
I tried something like .../my.wsx?speed=high
buy if I even do that .../my.wsx?a

Could anyone suggest a usefull manual for setting up and administering a
windows media server something like a Windows media server for Dummies book

We are looking into streaming content from a windows server. We only really
want the server to do streaming & storage. Nothing else (due to security) We
were looking into using windows storage server 2003 to do this. Does anyone
know if Windows Storage server comes with Media ...