Announcing content

Before you can stream content, you need to let your users know that the content is available. An easy way to accomplish this is to use the announcement wizards to create an announcement for the publishing point. The announcement wizards are located on the Announce tab of the publishing point.

As an alternative to using announcements, you can simply provide the URL a client needs to access the content in an e-mail or on a public shared resource.

This section contains the following topics:

• About announcements
• About multicast information files
• Client URL reference

Note

• Distribution servers cannot use announcement files to connect to a publishing point. To enable a distribution server to connect to your publishing point, you must give the publishing point URL to the distribution server administrator.

Related topics

• Concepts