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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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I occasionally get contacted by customers that are having problems keeping their Windows Media Encoder 9 Series encoder and Windows Media Services 2008 server connected. Often it is simply that the network between the two is having some issues, however
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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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This load balancing solution will cost you a grand total of about 10 minutes of time. Now I will say that it's definitely not the best load balancing solution out there, but it's cheap and works amazingly well for something so simple. First I need to
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Over the years I've talked to a number of people that want to broadcast a live video at a certain time of day. Usually this is in a corporate network where a CEO is doing a large broadcast to the entire company or something similar that needs to happen
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When Windows Media Player connects to a Windows Media server the player tries to use the most efficient protocol for the job. However, the player is not always able to connect with the first protocol it tries. This is usually due to either a firewall
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Easy automatic ASX generation In my first post, I thought it would be helpful to show how to use classic ASP to dynamically create ASX files for any file. An ASX file is essentially a shortcut or playlist file for Windows Media Player. Technically when
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