Update (March 27): Guide link repaired.
Shortly after announcing my boredom, via Windows Live Messenger’s personal status message feature, I received an interesting request from Ryan Hoffman. He wanted to get the Zune software installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
After some research and digging around, I successfully installed and used the software on a virtualized production server. I put together an installation guide and threw it into the hacks section for those interested in repeating my success.
Anyone want to send me a Zune to conduct more testing?
Thanks!
wait, I thought all the zunes were in secret land fills in nevada by now
Mine hasn’t gone to a landfill. I don’t plan on sending it there either; it rocks :P
I don’t see the install guide anywhere, tried all links I found on these pages….nada. Am I missing something?
The link for this seems to be circular? I cannot find the hack anywhere on this site either.
Sorry, I screwed up. I fixed the link in the article.
Nice job.
Now if you can get the Windows Live software (specifically Windows Live Gallery) to work on Server 2003/2008, you will be officially made a deity. :)
Cheers.
Well, looks like I figured out how to get Windows Live running on Server 2003/2008/XP64.
1) Download your Windows Live software of choice onto a legal computer (XP, etc)
2) Go into explorer and remove the option to hide protected operating system files
3) browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\WindowsLiveInstaller\MsiSources
4) copy the MSI files to the 2003/2008/xp64 computer and run them.
5) Presto!
Can I still be made a deity?
I have Server 2003 x64 bit so veryfew of the links for this don’t install and I can’t find anything else but this. Can you do some for us with the 64 bit version?
For those who are interested, I put together a guide (with the help of this site) on getting wireless sync working with Windows Server 2003.
http://derek.theblog.ca/zune-wireless-sync-in-windows-server-2003
Anyone install this and get wireless sync to work? I followed the instructions and had a successful install. I also found that the upnp and ssdpsrv services were non existant. UPNP is a dependant service of the zune services. So I found some guies that explained how to install these services on 2003. The services have been installed and are able to start but I still can’t connect over wifi for syncing. That was the whole point of having this on the server. If anyone has goten this to work I would love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Rob
Guess I should have read the last post huh? Sorry, Long day.