Configuring and Managing Windows Media Services

Course Number: 6429A

Course Length: 2 Days


Course Overview
This instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure and
manage Windows Media Services. Topics covered incule how to configure live streaming, on-
demand streaming, advanced streaming 7.0., service roles, logging and plug-ins, and WMS
availability solutions.

Prerequisites

Before attempting this course, students must have experience in Internet Information Services
(IIS) 6.0 - one year of experience administering and supporting IIS and one year of experience
administering and supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - and Network +certification.

Audience

This course is intended for existing WMS Streaming Media Services Specialists and other
Technology Specialists interested in expanding their job skills to include WMS.


Certification Exam

There is no certification exam associate with this course.



Course Outline

Course Introduction 4m
Course Introduction

Module 01 - Implementing Windows Media Server 43m
Implementing Windows Media Server
Lesson 01: Overview of Windows Media Services
What Is Streaming Media?
Media Streaming Scenarios
Windows Media Services Components
Protocols Used for Streaming Media
What Is Protocol Rollover?
Comparing Unicast and Multicast for Streaming Media
Lesson 02: Preparing for Windows Media Services
Windows Media Services 9.5 Features
Windows Media Services Edition
Server Scaling
Encoding Content for Intelligent Streaming
Configuring Networks for Windows Media Services
Lesson 03: Installing Windows Media Services
System Requirements for Implementing Windows Media Services
Considerations for Upgrading Windows Media Services
Windows Media Services Administration Tools
Configuring Control Protocols
Demo - Installing Windows Media Service
Demo - Configuring Control Protocols
Demo - Testing Windows Media Server
Module 01 Review

Module 02 - Implementing Content Streaming 1h 8m
Implementing Content Streaming
Lesson 01: Overview of On-Demand Streaming
Characteristics of On-Demand Streaming
Data Source Options in Windows Media Services
What Is Fast Start?
What Is Fast Cache?
What Are Fast Recovery and Fast Reconnection?
What Is Advanced Fast-Forward/Rewind?
Lesson 02: Implementing On-Demand Streaming Solutions
Managing the Default Publishing Point
Lesson 03: Overview of Live Content Streaming
Characteristics of Live Content Streaming
Preparing for Live Content Streaming
Considerations for Using Encoders
Demo - Create a Network Share
Demo - Create a Publication Point
Lesson 04: Implementing Live Content Streaming
Configuring Content Announcements
Connectivity Between the Encoder and the Windows Media Server
Demo - Publishing Point for Broadcast
Demo - Configuring Push Broadcast
Module 02 Review

Module 03 - Configuring Windows Media Services 47m
Configuring Windows Media Services
Lesson 01: Configuring Bandwidth and Connection Limits
What Are Bandwidth Limits?
What Are Connection Limits?
Demo - Configuring Limits
Lesson 02: Implementing Event Notification
What Are Plug-Ins?
What Are Event Handler Plug-Ins?
What Is the Windows Media Services Active Script Event Handler?
Demo - Event Handler Plug-Ins
Lesson 03: Tuning Windows Media Services
Overview of Tuning Windows Media Services
Recommendations for Processor Bottleneck
Recommendations for Data Source Bottlenecks
Recommendations for Bandwidth Bottlenecks
Recommendations for Memory Bottlenecks
Demo - Performance Monitor
Module 03 Review

Module 04 - Configuring Content Security 43m
Configuring Content Security
Lesson 01: Configuring Authentication
What Is Authentication?
What Is the Anonymous Authentication Plug-in?
What Is the Negotiate Authentication Plug-in?
What Is the Digest Authentication Plug-in?
Demo - Negotiate Authentication
Lesson 02: Configuring Authorization
What Is Authorization?
What Is the NTFS ACL Authorization Plug-in?
What Is the IP Address Authorization Plug-in?
What Is the Publishing Point ACL Authorization Plug-in?
What Are Custom Authorization Plug-ins?
Demo - Configuring Authorization
Lesson 03: Overview of Digital Rights Management
What Is Windows Media Digital Rights Management?
Windows Media DRM Scenarios
How Windows Media DRM Works
Module 04 Review

Module 05 - Configuring Playlists and Advertising 47m
Configuring Playlists and Advertising
Lesson 01: Overview of Playlists on Windows Media Server
What Are Playlists?
On-Demand and Broadcast Playlists
Playlist Creation and Editing Methods
Playlist Elements
Lesson 02: Configuring Wrapper Playlists
What Is a Wrapper Playlist?
Lesson 03: Configuring Advertising on Windows Media Server
Choosing an Advertising Infrastructure
Advertising Types
Advertisement Policies
Logging Advertising Data
Personalizing Advertising Content
Demo - Configure Playlists
Demo - Configure Playlist Logging
Module 05 Review

Module 06 - Configuring Windows Media Services for Advanced Scenarios 1h 37m
Configuring Windows Media Services for Advanced Scenarios
Lesson 01: Implementing Distribution Servers
What Are Distribution Servers?
Why Use Distribution Servers?
Demo - Distribution for Live Broadcast
Considerations for Server-to-Server Publishing Points
Lesson 02: Configuring Caching and Proxying
What Is the Cache Proxy Plug-In?
What Is Proxying?
What Is Reverse Proxying?
What Is Caching On-Demand Content?
Controlling Cached Content Expiration
Demo - Configuring Cache Proxy
Demo - Configure Reverse Proxy Server
Lesson 03: Configuring Windows Media Services for High Availability
What Is Fault Tolerance?
What Is Load Balancing?
What Is Content Replication?
How to Configure Windows Media Services for High Availability
What Is Content Rollover?
Demo - Configuring Content Rollover
Lesson 04: Installing Role Services
What Is the Logging Agent?
Configuration Options for the Logging Agent
What Is Web-Based Administration?
Demo - Installing a Logging Agent
Configuring Security for Web-Based Administration
Module 06 Review

Module 07 - Troubleshooting Windows Media Services 42m
Troubleshooting Windows Media Services
Lesson 01: Troubleshooting Windows Media Servers
How To Verify Server Functionality
Troubleshooting Server-to-Server Connectivity
Lesson 02: Troubleshooting Client Connectivity
Common Sources of Client Connectivity Issues
Connectivity Troubleshooting Process
Tools for Troubleshooting and Resolving Client Connectivity Issues
Demo - Implementing Client Logging
Demo - Capture Packets with Network Monitor
Module 07 Review
Course Closure
Total Duration: 6h 31m