Vishal Sood

We proudly announce the release of IIS Advanced Logging 1.0. 

Today, we released IIS Media Services 3.0 that supports both On Demand, Live Smooth Streaming and IIS Advanced Logging. Please refer to the announcement  of this release in  Chris Knowlton’s blog post for details. As a part of this release, we are very both excited and pleased to announce and release a Beta of IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit 1.0. This is intended to aid the development of rich Smooth Streaming players and experiences. This Kit allows you to build players for both On Demand and Live playback with full DVR capabilities, Live Ad Insertion, Multiple Camera Angles and many more such rich functionalities. This Kit is available for download here – Download IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit 1.0 – Beta 1.

As a part of my routine reading exercise, I came across a recent blog post by one of my favorite personalities online – Fred Wilson.

Earlier this week I gave a TechEd session on IIS Media Services - Smooth Streaming, Advanced Logging and the IIS Media Services Ecosystem overall. Thanks to everyone who made it to this talk. It was really nice to have you there and your interest in technology was immense.

We announced and release a Beta for a sparkling new Logging module for IIS at MIX 09. This is a super rich logging module with a lot of functionality that our team will continue to blog about. Today, I wanted to share more technical details on how my favorite feature, real-time logging work in Advanced Logging.

We proudly announce the Beta of IIS Advanced Logging.  With Advanced Logging you will be able to capture rich details in your logs and process them in real-time. These capabilities make this feature really compelling by helping you monetize your content with better analytics and improve service with rich QOS information.

Syndication has become and inseparable part of the internet. There are two major syndication formats that exist today – RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom 1.0 (Atom Syndication Format). While they achieve the same end result, there are differences. This post attempts to enable you to decide which is more suited to your publishing.

With the RC version of Web Playlists, we moved from a custom XML format to a SMIL-based format for storing playlists. As a result of this change the old isx format has been retired. However, Brian Blum (a dev) in our team crafted a tool to help convert the old files. The tool can be downloaded here. Thank you Brian!