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Windows Media Server Availability

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

To enable the streaming of content to clients over networks (either an intranet or the Internet), the Windows Media Services service must be running on the Windows Media server.

Events

Event ID Source Message

300

WMServer

The Windows Media Services service started.

301

WMServer

The Windows Media Services service stopped.

303

WMServer

Service Control Manager could not install a handler for the Windows Media Services service.

304

WMServer

The Windows Media Services service received a control request from the Service Control Manager that it did not recognize.

317

WMServer

The Windows Media Services service did not start because the configuration file contains the following error:
%2
Line number: %3
Character position: %4
Line text: %5
The configuration file was copied to '%6'.

Windows Media Server

Streaming Media Services