Working with the Multicast Announcement Wizard

If you are delivering content as a multicast stream through a broadcast publishing point, use the Multicast Announcement Wizard to create an announcement. This section contains the following topics:

• Specifying the files to create
• Retrieving stream format information
• Identifying stream formats
• Enabling multicast logging
• Saving the multicast announcement files
• Specifying the URL to the multicast information file
• Specifying an archive location
• Completing the Multicast Announcement Wizard

Note

• Multicast streaming and the WMS Multicast Data Writer plug-in are available only if Windows Media Services 9 Series is running on the following editions of the operating system: Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. If you are running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, these features are not supported.