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Firewalls, firewalls, how I love thee!

As I’m sure most of you know initial setup/connectivity is the biggest issues with MCX. One of the primary reasons setup fails is because of 3 rd party firewalls installed on the Media Center PC blocking the ports we need. MCX setup will configure Windows Read More...

Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:50 AM by denmor | 1 Comments

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Broken MCX connectivity after upgrading from MCE2005 to Vista

We've gotten a few reports where people had MCX working with MCE2005, upgraded to Vista and then lost connectivity. This is due to a couple of bugs in the upgrade code and MCX setup. To fix this issue: 1. In an elevated command window, type mmc 2. In Read More...

Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:31 AM by denmor | 1 Comments