Summary
This article describes how to configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) for use with Broadcast Server for the Application Gateway.
Requirements
The only IIS services required for Broadcast Server operation are the IIS Admin Service and the World Wide Web Publishing Service.
Procedure
Note: The following items refer to the IIS Snap-in window. Open that window as follows:
- Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services.
- In the left frame, expand the entry for the computer where IIS is running and then expand the Web Sites entry.
- The IIS Default Web Site must be listening on localhost. This can be done either through configuring the Default Web Site to listen on All Unassigned or by using the Advanced tab to add 127.0.0.1 to the listening IP addresses as follows:
- In the IIS Snap-in window, right-click Default Web Site and click Properties.
- In the Properties dialog box, select the IP address check box. It should be All Unassigned or 127.0.0.1.
- To ensure that IIS correctly handles a broadcast to 100 or more subscribers, configure IIS to handle the maximum capacity (more than 100,000 hits per day) as follows:
- In the IIS Snap-in window, right-click Default Web Site and click Properties.
- Click the Server Extensions tab. Under Performance, choose Unlimited or 1000 (Windows Server 2003) or more than 100,000 (Windows 2000 Server).
- If you are using Windows 2003 IIS server, you must enable Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP). Without ASP enabled, you receive a 404 error when attempting to run the Broadcast Server Configuration Wizard.
- In the IIS Snap-in window, enable ASP on the Server Extensions tab.
- Set the Virtual Directory execute permissions as follows:
- In the IIS Snap-in window, right-click BCS and click Properties.
- In the Virtual Directory tab, set Execute Permissions to Scripts and Executables.
Note: If you have trouble running the Broadcast Server Configuration Wizard later, you might need to lower the application protection on the Virtual Directory tab.
- To start IIS, right-click Default Web Site and click Properties.
