Comments on: Home Server, Live Mesh disagree on Remote Desktop Licensing http://www.christopherprice.net/home-server-live-mesh-disagree-on-remote-desktop-licensing-346.html Christopher Price tackles the rest of tech. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Next Windows Home Server to Bundle Live Mesh | Christopher Price .nethttp://www.christopherprice.net/home-server-live-mesh-disagree-on-remote-desktop-licensing-346.html/comment-page-1#comment-3745 Next Windows Home Server to Bundle Live Mesh | Christopher Price .net Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:15:30 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/?p=346#comment-3745 [...] At PDC, Microsoft let drop the announcement that I pushed for. The Windows Home Server Team has announced that the next version of the product will indeed [...] [...] At PDC, Microsoft let drop the announcement that I pushed for. The Windows Home Server Team has announced that the next version of the product will indeed [...]

]]> By: Christopher Pricehttp://www.christopherprice.net/home-server-live-mesh-disagree-on-remote-desktop-licensing-346.html/comment-page-1#comment-1266 Christopher Price Sat, 24 May 2008 22:29:05 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/?p=346#comment-1266 Live Mesh does use RDP: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=399578 Even if that were the answer, how in the world can the Home Server team feel good about telling folks that they have to install Live Mesh to get Remote Desktop functionality on home computers? And, there's still a bit of a void from the Home Server team about how Live Mesh will co-habit and integrate with Home Server. Right now, aside from the lack of a large online storage share... the two products seem rival in a lot of ways. And, I don't think that's Microsoft's goal... they want you to have a Mesh and a Home Server. Hopefully this is just because the Home Server team has been busy finishing Power Pack 1. Hopefully, they'll have answers to these questions soon. As it stands right now, I probably wouldn't buy WHS over again. Live Mesh, combined with a NAS for backups, cleans Home Server's clock right now. Live Mesh does use RDP: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=399578

Even if that were the answer, how in the world can the Home Server team feel good about telling folks that they have to install Live Mesh to get Remote Desktop functionality on home computers? And, there’s still a bit of a void from the Home Server team about how Live Mesh will co-habit and integrate with Home Server. Right now, aside from the lack of a large online storage share… the two products seem rival in a lot of ways. And, I don’t think that’s Microsoft’s goal… they want you to have a Mesh and a Home Server.

Hopefully this is just because the Home Server team has been busy finishing Power Pack 1. Hopefully, they’ll have answers to these questions soon.

As it stands right now, I probably wouldn’t buy WHS over again. Live Mesh, combined with a NAS for backups, cleans Home Server’s clock right now.

]]> By: Andrew Johnsonhttp://www.christopherprice.net/home-server-live-mesh-disagree-on-remote-desktop-licensing-346.html/comment-page-1#comment-1265 Andrew Johnson Sat, 24 May 2008 21:20:21 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/?p=346#comment-1265 The technical answer, as I understand it, is Live Mesh isn't Remote Desktop in the technical sense: it's not using the RDP protocol. From a user perspective, this remains unhelpful, but that is the 'reason' The technical answer, as I understand it, is Live Mesh isn’t Remote Desktop in the technical sense: it’s not using the RDP protocol. From a user perspective, this remains unhelpful, but that is the ‘reason’

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