Live Mesh is now open to everyone in the US

Great News!

Live Mesh is now open to everyone in the US according to LiveSide

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/07/16/live-mesh-is-indeed-now-open.aspx

Live Mesh UAC no longer required

I got this email yesterday from the Live Mesh team

Fixes

1. Live Mesh is now available in all English-speaking countries (not just the U.S.)

2. Removed the User Account Control (UAC) requirement when installing and using Live Mesh with Windows Vista SP1

3. Index for Desktop Search now works with Live Mesh folders

4. Fixed bug where an underscore in a Hotmail account name returned an “Invalid Hotmail Address” error

5. Fixed bug with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 failing to load in Silverlight Media View

6. Fixed bug where the notifier tooltip incorrectly indicated that Live Mesh Remote Desktop was unavailable for a computer running in non-admin mode

7. Fixed bug where the Live Mesh folder icon was not displayed in the e-mail inviting someone to share a folder

8. Fixed one of the bugs that caused Live Mesh to fail to start

9. Fixed problem with Live Mesh returning errors when waking from sleep/hibernate

It is great news that UAC is no longer required!

 

Live Mesh install on Windows Server 2008

I blogged here about not being able to install Live Mesh on Windows Server 2008, which I am running as my main workstation.

MsftGuy has a solution for this issue.  Basically you run the LiveMesh.exe from the command line with the -force argument.

Thanks for the tip! Helped me a lot

http://msftguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/befriending-live-mesh-and-server-2008.html

 

Live Mesh needs UAC on Vista

On top all the annoyances with UAC (User Annoyance Control) , Live Mesh needs UAC enabled all the time. Come on MS, what about users who can take care of themselves

 

Here is a post from the Live Mesh team on why UAC is required

http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/04/28/get-mesh-and-why-we-require-uac.aspx

 

Did I just read COM(What year are we in?!!!)

 

 

Live Mesh does not install on Windows Server 2008

For those of us running Windows Server 2008 as a workstation , here is another shocking gaffe! Live Mesh requires XP or Vista (32/64 bit). No luck for us Windows Server 2008 users.

Hopefully someone has hacked the installer to let it run on Windows Server 2008

If this doesn’t work, VMware is the only option. Here is a request to VMWare. How about modifying Fusion to let Windows run seamlessly within Windows ? Then we can have XP installed on Win Server 2008 and share folders between the host and the VM

 Update: MsftGuy has a fix here

http://msftguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/befriending-live-mesh-and-server-2008.html

 

Live Mesh Invitation Email

I am super excited to be part of the Live Mesh technical preview. I received the following email today

 

I will be installing the software tonight and will post my initial impressions.