One common question I get from Windows Media Services admins who have looked through their log files is about the cause of the 408 status codes. Before answering the question directly, I need to define what a 408 is. Simply put, it is an abnormal disconnect.
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For a number of years now I've had customers ask me about how to prevent deep linking from random people directly to their Windows Media server. Deep linking is described on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking . Often this occurs when a web site
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One of the main differences between Windows Media Services 9.1 on Windows 2003 and WMS 2008 on Windows Server 2008 is the inclusion of the Cache/Proxy plug-in. In WMS 9.1 you had to compile (and write some of your own code to do caching) to have cache/proxy
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I've talked to a number of people that are having problems streaming from Windows Media Services 2008 on Windows Server 2008 when the server is behind a NAT firewall, some proxies, or load balancers. Clients on the internal network work just fine. In
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