Hi, Florian. Let me clarify. The currently available version of Windows Media Services 2008 R2 (WMS) is the Release Candidate (build 7100). It will only install on (or in other words, the update will only apply to) the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 (also build 7100). If I understand correctly...

If all the valid requests will be coming from a specific website, would IP Address authorization meet your needs? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770273.aspx -Chris

Hi, Roger, That is a concise summary! :-) I'd make just two clarifications, both to your last sentence: Windows Media audio and video files can be downloaded intact and played; progressively downloaded and played (playing starts even while the content is still downloading, typically from a Web server...

You are correct - as a supplemental Server Role for Windows Server, the only cost for Windows Media Services is for the operating system itself.

Hi, gkhniis, WMS supports streaming of .asf, .wma, .wmv, .jpg, .jpeg, and .mp3 file types. Unfortunately, it does not support .wav or .avi files. Please see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731194.aspx for more information. If you don't mind me asking, where did the quoted file types...

Hi, VA, Answers to your questions... 1. WMS can provide the older Intelligent Streaming feature, but to get the latest adaptive streaming functionality, you will need IIS Smooth Streaming running on IIS 7.0. 2. Currently, Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 SP1 is required to create IIS Smooth Streaming content...

Hi, Seatac, It sounds as if you have set this up properly for running IIS and WMS side-by-side. I think there may be another issue at play here, which can happen in some situations when your WMS 2008 server is behind a NAT firewall, proxy server, or load balancer. Please see this MSDN blog post for information...

Hi, Mike, It turns out that this can happen in some situations when your WMS 2008 server is behind a NAT firewall, proxy (e.g. ISA), or load balancer. Please see this MSDN blog post for information on how to resolve this. Let us know if this helps... -Chris

When setting up a cache/proxy media server for broadcast or on-demand, do you need to create publishing points? I understand you would do so on the origin server, and that on the origin server you would configure the cache/proxy plugin for each publishing point. But when configuring a cache/proxy media...

Hi, Jhorra, A .wsx playlist is a Windows Media Services (WMS) server-side playlist - are you trying to stream this playlist from IIS using WMS? If you can provide more details about what you are trying to accomplish, that would really help. -Chris