How to get live mesh (build # 0.9.3103.2) working under Windows Server 2008 x64
I've been running windows server 2008 x64 on my HP NC8430 laptop for the past week now and I have to say, its been a mixed ride (I'll leave the details to a separate blog post). One of my must-have's was to get live mesh working (which is not supported yet). After checking on the web and on some internal sites, I managed to get it working. This is not a supported scenario yet so if you want to follow these instructions please note that you're doing it at your own risk.
The main thing to note is that live mesh will not install (build # 0.9.3103.2) with UAC enabled, you will have to disable it in order to get it installed (don't worry, you will be able to re-enable it once it has been installed).
Steps to get live mesh running on Windows Server 2008 x64:
- Download (do not run) live mesh client from the mesh site, you will need the vista x64 client. save the executable (livemesh.exe) to a local folder on your machine ("c:\downloads" for example)
- Disable UAC
- In order to disable UAC, type msconfig in the start menu and click on msconfig.exe once it's listed
- select tools from the top tabs, and browse down to "Disable UAC" and click on launch.
- Restart your machine
- once you are logged in to your machine, run cmd.exe
- browse to the folder where you downloaded livemesh.exe to and execute it through the command prompt with the /force switch.
- You should be able to complete the installation normally after this, remember to restore UAC after completing the setup (same as the steps to disable shown above, only make sure to select enable UAC from msconfig)
and that's it, Happy meshing!!!
