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Authors: Noel Morimoto
Using Windows Media Services for Real-Time Live Broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . 1492
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Hosting a Directory of Videos for On-Demand Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1498
Combining Multiple Files for a Combined Single Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1501
Deploying and Using Windows Virtualization
Integration of Hypervisor Technology in Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . 1517
Becoming Familiar with the Hyper-V Administrative Console . . . . . . . . . . . . 1524
About the Authors
Rand H. Morimoto, Ph.D., MVP, MCITP, CISSP,
has been in the computer industry
for over 30 years and has authored, coauthored, or been a contributing writer for dozens
of books on Windows, Security, Exchange, BizTalk, and Remote and Mobile Computing.
Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT-consulting firm in the San
Francisco Bay area that has been one of the key early adopter program partners with
Microsoft, implementing beta versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7,
Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint 2010 in production environments over 18 months
before the initial product releases.
Michael Noel, MCITP, CISSP, MVP,
is an internationally recognized technology
expert, best-selling author, and well-known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics.
He authored multiple major industry books that have been translated into more than a
dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include
SharePoint 2010 Unleashed
,
Microsoft
Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed
,
SharePoint 2007 Unleashed
,
Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed
,
ISA Server 2006 Unleashed
, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing
(www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael’s writing and extensive public-
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speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise in helping
organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.
Omar Droubi, MCSE,
has been in the computer industry since 1992 and during this
time has coauthored several of Sams Publishing best-selling books, including
Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 Unleashed
and
Windows Server 2008 Unleashed
, and Omar has been a
contributing writer and technical reviewer on several other books on Windows Server
2003, Windows Server 2008, and Exchange Server 2000, 2003, and 2007. Omar has been
involved in testing, designing, and prototyping Windows Server 2008 and Windows
Server 2008 R2 infrastructures for the past four years, and has primarily focused on
upgrading existing networks and utilizing many of the new roles and features included in
the product. Also during this time, Omar has assisted several organizations with the
development of technical road maps, planning and executing domain and server consoli-
dation and virtualization projects, and deploying Exchange Server 2007 for organizations
of all sizes.
Ross Mistry, MVP, MCITP,
is a principal consultant and partner at Convergent
Computing, an author, and a Microsoft MVP. With over a decade of experience, Ross
focuses on designing and implementing Windows, Active Directory, Hyper-V, Exchange
Server, and SQL Server solutions for Fortune 500 organizations located in the Silicon
Valley. His specialties include upgrades, migrations, high availability, security, and virtual-
ization. Ross has also taken on the roles of lead author, contributing writer, and technical
editor for many best-selling books published by Sams. His recent works include
SQL Server
2008 Management and Administration
,
Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed
, and
Windows Server
2008 Unleashed
. Ross writes technical articles for many sites including TechTarget.com and
frequently speaks at international conferences around the world. You can follow him on
Twitter @
RossMistry
.
Chris Amaris, MCSE, CISSP/ISSAP, CHS III,
is the chief technology officer and
cofounder of Convergent Computing. He has more than 20 years experience consulting
for Fortune 500 companies, leading companies in the technology selection, design, plan-
ning, and implementation of complex Information Technology projects. Chris has
worked with Microsoft Windows since version 1.0 in 1985. He specializes in messaging,
security, performance tuning, systems management, and migration. A Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with an Information System Security
Architecture Professional (ISSAP) concentration, Certified Homeland Security (CHS III),
Windows 2003 MCSE, Novell CNE, Banyan CBE, and a Certified Project Manager, Chris is
also an author, writer, and technical editor for a number of IT books, including
Network
Security for Government and Corporate Executives
,
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed
, and
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed
. Chris presents on messaging, operations
management, security, and Information Technology topics worldwide.
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Dedications
Kelly and Chip asked that I dedicate this book to our cat Lady. Meow!
—Rand H. Morimoto, Ph.D., MVP, MCITP, CISSP
This book is dedicated to my brother Joey, his wife Mary, and my new
nephew Avery. Your love for life is an inspiration and a joy to behold.
—Michael Noel, MCSE+I, CISSP, MCSA, MVP
This book is dedicated to my lovely wife Colby Lucretia Crews Droubi
and my two boys Omar Khalil Droubi and Jamil Kingsley Droubi
—
Love you guys.
—Omar Droubi
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I dedicate this book to my parents Aban and Keki Mistry. Thanks for
constantly pushing me in the right direction. Your hard work and
sacrifices throughout the years are much appreciated. And in loving
memory of my uncle Minoo Mistry. Thanks for treating Sherry and
me like gold when we last visited Vancouver. You will be missed.
—Ross Mistry, MVP, MCITP
I dedicate this book to my lovely wife, Sophia, whose love and support
I cherish. And to my children, Michelle, Megan, Zoe, Zachary, and
Ian, for whose sake all the hard work is worthwhile. I also want
to dedicate the book to my late father, Jairo Amaris, who taught me
to think on many different levels.
—Chris Amaris, MCSE, MVP, CISSP/ISSAP, CHS III
I dedicate this book to my parents, Tsvi and Rachel, for teaching me to
always do my best, starting my love for computers, kicking off a life-
long addiction with a Commodore 64, and always supporting and
nurturing the nerd within.
—Guy Yardeni, MCSE, MCITP, CISSP
Acknowledgments
Rand H. Morimoto, Ph.D., MVP, MCITP, CISSP
I want to thank Microsoft (includ-
ing Kevin Lane) for allowing us the opportunity to work with the technologies months
before general release so that we could put together content for this book! A big thanks
goes out to the Sams Publishing team (Neil, Mark, and all the folks behind the scenes) in
working with our tight time schedule as we write, edit, and produce a book of this size
literally in weeks! A special thanks to Betsy Harris and Karen Annett for really thinking
through our writing and editing our content to catch stuff that we would otherwise
never catch!
I also want to thank the consultants at Convergent Computing and our early adopter
clients who fiddle with these new technologies really early on and then take the leap of
faith in putting the products into production to experience (and at times feel) the pain as
we work through best practices. The early adopter experiences give us the knowledge and
experience we need to share with all who use this book as their guide in their production
environments based on the lessons learned.
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To Kelly and Chip, okay, two 1300+ page books back-to-back in 7 months, I might actu-
ally not be asleep on my laptop keyboard on the kitchen table in the morning when you
wake up! And thank you, Mom, for your constant love and support! For all those after-
noons and evenings that you struggled to help me get my homework done because I
couldn’t string together words into a sentence to write a book report; I guess after all
these years and several books later, I can finally say I figured it out.
Michael Noel, MCITP, MVP
You’d think that after the amount of writing it takes to
finish a book like this that writing the acknowledgments would be relatively easy, but the
reality is that there are so many people who are involved with the process of getting a
book on the shelves (or in your e-reader) that it is impossible to thank them all. Book
publishing is a messy, exhaustive business, and I’m eternally grateful to the folks at Sams
Publishing for their years of hard work turning the scatterbrained ideas of a handful of
technical authors into something that is of real value to our readers. A big thanks espe-
cially to Neil Rowe, our editor, for putting up with us yet again.
I couldn’t do any of this without the help of my fellow authors, notably lead author Rand
Morimoto. The expertise and cumulative years of experience in this book is mind-
boggling, especially when you add in the efforts of the additional contributing writers
and of Guy Yardeni, the highly proficient technical editor.
And of course, thanks once again to my family—Marina, Julia, Val, and Liza—for putting
up with what is now the fifteenth time that I have disappeared into my lab to furiously
write another of these books. Your love and devotion is the fuel that keeps me going.
Omar Droubi
There are many people I would like to thank and acknowledge. Many of
the customers, colleagues, and business associates I currently work with and have done
business with in the past have inspired me and assisted me in my career as an
Information Technology consultant and in my writing career. First, without question, I
would like to thank Rand Morimoto, Sams Publishing, and the other coauthors and
contributing writers of this book and my previous books. Without them, my book-writing
achievements would not be possible. Next, I would like to personally thank Jim McBee,
