WMS Multicast Data Writer - advanced properties

You can configure the following options for this plug-in.

Item	Description
IP address of the network interface card to multicast from	Select the IP address for the network interface card on your server that can use multicast to transmit data over the network.
Logging URL	Type the URL to the Multicast and Advertisement Logging Agent; for example, http://server_name/folder/wmsiislog.dll, where server_name is the name of the Internet Information Server (IIS) computer and folder is the name of the folder on your Web server in which you have placed the Wmsiislog.dll file.

For information about additional WMS Multicast Data Writer properties, see WMS Multicast Data Writer - general properties.

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If the properties for this plug-in are disabled, you must stop the broadcast publishing point before making any modifications. After modifying this plug-in you must run the Multicast Announcement Wizard again to update the multicast information (.nsc) file with your changes before restarting the publishing point.
The Multicast and Advertisement Logging Agent installs the Wmsiislog.dll on a Web server that has Internet Information Services 6.0 installed. You are not required to have Wmsiislog.dll on the Windows Media server; however, Wmsiislog.dll must be installed in a directory that is Web-accessible.
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.