Description: Use Windows Server 2008 as home entertainment pc in the living room!

Tried
- Copied the folder C:\Windows\ehome\ from a Vista Ultimate workstation, but when trying starting some executables, none of them appear and the processes directly close.

Tips
- Anonymous: The reason that Vista Media Center doesn’t work is because the executables rely on Windows services to work properly, which are not installed. You would have to register the services with Windows and set them to start-up if you want it to work, but I imagine that’s where some of the Vista bloat comes from in th first place.

-TheNetAvenger: Media Center depends on several services (files may not be in Server Install) and have to be copied, registered, & installed as services) - No these do not add bloat to Vista as someone suggested, since if the users doesn’t e ven havea TV Tuner card, a very lite version of the service runs that is for remote media access.
Media Center also is DirectX reliant, make sure you run the latest DirectX runtime distribution as well once you get the services running and the EXEs regi.)

Workaround
- Use XBMC Media Center for Windows (Screenshots, Download)
- Use Origami Experience as free alternative. Note: it doesn't have TV support. (Review, Download)

here something that may help

http://www.msfn.org/board/Media-Center- ... 12916.html

If anyone does solve this one I'm looking forward to it!

We finally got Windows Media Center install on Windows Server 2008 but a last minute show-stopper bug emerge due to software restriction policy. If you would like to help complete the product you can download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?yje11mmbhen

1. run MCE from Vista.bat on Vista
2. copy C:\MCE from vista to C:\MCE in server 2008
3. run MCE to Server 2008.bat (or you can copy all files in C:\MCE to C:\)
4. run Media Center - Add.reg

If you run Windows Media Center you will get this error: Windows cannot open this program because it has been prevented by a software restriction policy. For more information contact your system administrator.


If somebody find a solution, let me know.

Original post: http://www.msfn.org/board/Media-Center- ... html&st=20

This is most wanted feature in Windows Server 2008 and we need all the help we can get. You can contribute here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Media-Center- ... html&st=20

How on earth are you getting Origami installed on a server os, it will only install on vista, not 08.

It seems no progress is being made with this area... please guys don't give up... we need this feature....

I remember using Media Center with my Server 2003 workstation. The way I got it working was by making Server 2003 believe it was XP MC2005. Can't you do something like that with Server 2008 (make it believe it is Vista Ultimate)?

Now, something I would like to ask for: Can someone make a package with the "Desktop Experience". I am asking this because I would like to add it to my custom Server 2008 DVD. Thanks!

WTF....

BACK ON TOPIC, I am going to look into this over the next few days. Stay tuned.

This is a must feature for me being the geek I am. I will pitch in the efforts to get this working. It has too work and it will work and we will find it.

I noticed the eshell.exe text file referenced a version of DOT NET (v2.0 exactly). I also know Vista has a patch out there which fixed a virtual memory error that failed to CORRECTLY apply "software restriction policies" or the lack there of. There were some issues installing some drivers which this particular patch fixed in Vista (seeing that you are getting the same error in your thread above).

I'm going to match the dot net framework versions per Vista and see where that gets me. As for the patch, I say we keep that in the back of our minds. We'll figure this out with world wide mass efforts.

Installing the versions of DOT NET Framework had no effect. I've been hunting down registry values all night too. The group policies that enable/disable this program are turned off as well (verified a manual reg key entry too).