Manual Installation instructions for Windows Media Connect

What about Windows 2003 Installation and Support?

Mike Lee — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:11:40 GMT

I found these install instructions helpful and was hoping to get WMC installed on my Win2K3 File server that has all my music, photos, movies etc. Why is Win2K3 not supported by the install and conifguration? Many a tach person like myself have both the Xbox 360 and Win2K3 systems acting as their file server? Is there a way to get it up and running in Win2K3 (I tried this manual install but even when installed it seems unusable)? Any plans to incorporate Win2K3 in an update approaching? I and other would appreciate it.

I believe these steps are great to be laid out however and appreciate you and your team's efforts.

re: Manual Installation instructions for Windows Media Connect

Alan Ludwig — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:25:50 GMT

It doesn't work on Win2K3 because UPnP isn't present on any of the Server OS's. Aparently UPnP is seens as a "consumer only" technology and not to be made avaialbe in the data center (don't get me started). WMC can't work without UPnP so even if you use the manual install steps, you aren't going anywhere. Now, UPnP is present on x64 so using these steps there actually gets you something. It was really for the x64 folks that I made these public.

re: Manual Installation instructions for Windows Media Connect

Mike Lee — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:03:47 GMT

Thanks for the response. I work in software so I know how business decisions are made about what technology to support and all - it just sucks when it affects you! ;) I guess when I upgrade to x64 bit sometime this year I will probably retry these steps you put together and really get some use out of it - thanx again for the help and response.

http://xbox.com/en-us/community/personality/elle/20060203-pcmedia1.htm

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