Media streaming through SharePoint part 2

At Twynham it has always been our ambition to deliver all of our resources through SharePoint so with the media files that was always high on the agenda. As I said in the previous post this was version three of our media delivery solution, the first thing we discovered was the lack of resources available in fact the only book we could find on the subject was Windows media services resource kit this book proved invaluable. But the first thing to consider was the architecture needed to deliver this.

We had in early 2008 the opportunity to move our resources over to a new setup as we were setting up a new SharePoint farm it seemed the ideal timing for the move. Below you can see the SharePoint setup we decided on. The application server not only handles the SharePoint indexing service but also windows media services, this was built on a windows server 2008 64 Bit install with the application server attached directly to a Dell Power Vault MD300 with 2 TB of storage this allowed us some flexibility and future proofing with the onset of high definition video and the file sizes associated with the HD format media files.

One of the reasons for wanting to deliver our media files through SharePoint was the indexing capabilities of SharePoint as early on we decided to number our video files not name them as naming would leave us open to typo’s, we ended up with over 4000 video files all numbered but with no reference to the name. In the next part of this blog series I will tell you how we delivered the video and audio files to the end user and also touch on the sticky subject of backup and restore of your digital assets…

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