interesting idea, i'll have to look. Thanks! After today with PSS though, they find the workaround to be selecting that check box in LAN Settings in IE options.. i just wish i knew why that is all of a sudden required with our current settings.
-Ben On Jan 23, 2008 7:05 AM, Miller Bonnie L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know my terminology is probably way off as I'm not the network person > here-sorry about that. When our admin scrunched down the amount of > bandwidth that streaming media could take using our Internet facing > Packetshaper, we had a similar problem. You could play a file locally but > not streamed. He had to bump up the "bandwidth cap" on media files to a > minimum amount (I can find out if you need to know) to get streaming to > work. > > > > Just an idea, but since it works when the policies are removed, do you > have any policy/preference settings that could limit bandwidth, such as > settings for BITS or QOS? If you're not already, use GPMC so you can get a > full report of all the settings being applied. > > > > -Bonnie > > > > *From:* Ben Nordlander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:53 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: wmv IE streaming broken on all computers > > > > > > no ideas anyone? I'll only bump this once. thanks in advance if anyone has > ideas. thanks > > > > -Ben > > On Jan 20, 2008 5:09 PM, Ben Nordlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > so we have this problem, isn't that how it always starts? :) > > > > Our GPO settings for our domain controlled computers won't play streaming > wmv on IE7. If we image a computer, it is fine. if we put it on the domain, > it is fine. If we move the computer account to the OU where our main GPO > settings get applied.. it breakes wmv streaming in IE. It is a per profile > problem, so if we took this computer out of that OU and back to like the > computers container where no OU gets applied really, ( we don't modify the > domain wide GPO at all really ), then the profiles that didn't work, are > still broken.. and new profiles work ok. > > > > So the problems looks like this. you get the WMV window and with its > controls.. looks fine.. but it just sits there blank. Hitting play does > nothing. If you browse to a IIS web site with browsing turned on , and then > click on a wmv file.. it opens Windows media player (v.11 on all, can't > roll back), but just sits there forever.. hitting the CPu pretty good till > you end task it. i've had it sit for over 30 minutes. Opening a wmv video > from a file share, works just fine.. as well as opening one locally. awesome > right? > > > > We have been working with PSS for over a week.. and the only solution they > have come up is to have the GPO setting select the check box "automatically > check settings" under LAN Settings in IE options. But has been unreliable on > getting this setting to work via GPO, and MS is confused as well. but really > this is just a work around.. and a bad one for being a per profile thing > too. They seem to think it is a network thing that is causing the streaming > to break.. > > > > so any of have ideas on this strange issue? We could start over on and our > computers, but really isn't an option at this point. way too many desktops > and users per desktop. I'm looking for someone who has fixed this issue > before or might have a clue at the silver bullet. > > > > -Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
