Question : Live streaming through windows media server 9/win 2003 server

I have a server hosted through a hosting company, its a
10MB upload speed server. At office I have regular DSL
768MB upload. I want to stream a live broadcast; a team
meeting, for my team members that are away from office. I
wanted to know is there any way I can do live broadcast
using my office computer, to my server first, and then
from my server (that has enough bandwidth to have more
than 5 people connected) to other people of my team that
are away from office with internet connection? In past I
tried team meeting recorded and encoded in WMV9 and then
put it on server as a "On demand: stream, where folks went
and watch stream, but never done live stream as my office
computer cant stream more than 768MB and I cant get to
data center.

I have server hosted through EV1 servers. It is windows
2003 standard server with media server 9 installed. I have
remote access to it. At my office I have 2 regular
computers one with windows 2003 server (with media server
9 installed) and one with windows XP (professional).

Can anyone show me how, or refer me to correct way, how
should I do that. Thanks in advance for any
help.
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Answer : Live streaming through windows media server 9/win 2003 server

First you need to have Windows Media Services and Windows media encoder 9 installed and working.  
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5691ba02-e496-465a-bba9-b2f1182cdf24&DisplayLang=en

Windows media services can be added from the Windows 2003 CD through Add/remove programs - Add/Remove Windows Componets.

First start Windows media encoder, click broadcast a live event, then click OK.
Choose the device you want to use (be aware you can not configure this via terminal services or remote desktop), click next.
Pull from the encoder, next,
Choose a port or leave default.  next
Choose your bit rate, next
Choose to archive the stream or not, next
Give it a title and any other info you need, next
Then Finish

Now run Windows media services under Administrative tools.
Open that up, expand your servername, click on publishing points, then down at the bottom of the window click the icon with the server with a + on it.
It opens a wizard, click next, then click Encoder (live stream), then next, click broadcast publishing point, next, enter encoder URL (http://yourservername) , next, select wether you want to log the stream, next, uncheck after the wizard finishes, then click finish.

This should get your stream running locally.  Test it out, make sure everything works.  

Then on the internet server, run the windows media services, and instead of live stream, choose the fourth option Files, click next, Broadcast a publishing point, next
Enter the URL to your server you just setup, next.
I do not think you need to loop or shuffle, so just hit next,
Click next under the logging option,
Click next to start publishing,
Then uncheck After wizard finishes, then finish.  


Hope this gets you working.