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]<mailto:[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> ~
