Installing Windows Live Mesh on WHS 2011

As a follow up to the article we linked to earlier today on a beginners guide to Windows Live Mesh the "Random Thoughts of a Techie" blog has a great tutorial on how to Install Windows Live Mesh as a Service on Windows Home Server 2011.

By using the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (yes 2003) and Any Service Installer you will get Mesh running as a service on WHS 2011:

…Mesh requires someone to be logged on in order for the software to run, which for a Home Server is a bit annoying. This give you 2 options, you can configure your Home Server to auto logon when it boots so that Mesh runs or you can install it as a service. The latter I believe is far more preferable and is also pretty easy to do as I shall explain…

Writer Lee  has a guide for two ways of achieving this. The first is the run as a scheduled task that loads at startup method and secondly the run as a service method which is the preferred way of doing things.

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