A surprising number of people are running domains in their homes. Windows Media Connect (WMC) can work on a domain joined PC. Nearly every computer at Microsoft is joined to one of the corporate domains. That was true of me as well as I worked on WMC...

You've been trying to get it to work but Windows Media Connect (WMC) doesn’t see your device, and neither does the UPnP Subsystem. We figured that out by running the script pasted to the blog a few entries back. What could be causing this? Let’s get past...

You’ve run the UPnP enumeration script and everything shows up just fine. That means that the problem is inside WMC itself. For some reason Windows Media Connect (WMC) a is getting device notifications from UPnP but isn’t showing the device. So, Let’s...

You’re sitting there at your PC next to the open box for your Digital Media Receiver (DMR) and you can’t authorize your DMR because it doesn’t show up in WMC. We had a little lesson on the theory of how SSDP discovery works with WMC, but how do you track...

Well so far you brought your Digital Media Receiver (DMR) home, hooked it up, and checked basic network connectivity. Then you went to the PC and installed Windows Media Connect (WMC) and got folder sharing started. Unfortunately, that is as far as you...

After installation the next barrier that folks can hit is service startup. It looks something like this. You run through the first-run wizard and after it is all done you get a popup balloon that says “Folder sharing failed to start”. That doesn’t sound...

For various reasons, it is often useful to have instructions for manual install or uninstall of an application. Perhaps you'd just like to "reset" all of the settings without actually deleting or re-adding any of the files. Here are the manual install...

The big day has arrived. You unwrap that shiny new beautiful Digital Media Receiver (DMR) or Xbox 360. The smell of new plastic and Styrofoam lingers in the air as you connect wire after wire (after wire, after wire) to your home entertainment system...

I started working on WMC 2.0 in the fall of 2004 just as it was coming together as a project. WMC v1 had just been shipped and we were trying to figure out what the v2 would look like. Over the course of the next year I spent most of my time on WMC v2...