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Remote desktop control on Media Center 83dawg 08-25-2006
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Posted by 83dawg on August 25, 2006, 4:32 pm
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 Today I was told by an associate at Best Buy that the XP Media Center 2005
operating system was XP Pro with service pack 2 with the Media Center add-on
(whatever that means). I was very skeptical and asked him a few times if he
was sure---to which he responded affirmatively. He said XP Media Center had
the same capabilities as XP Pro, including the ability to remotely control
one computer, say your work computer, from another computer, say your home
computer.

Would someone please tell me if this is correct, as I do not want to spend
the extra money on an XP Pro machine for the remote desktop control if XP
Media Center 2005 wil do the same thing.

Thanks so much for your response.

Posted by Doug Knox MS-MVP on August 25, 2006, 4:59 pm
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 Yes, MCE 2005 supports Remote Desktop, just as Pro does. You cannot, =
however use RDP to watch Live or Recorded TV, or any other full motion =
video as RDP does not "stream" the content. It renders the remote =
desktop differently.

The only functional differences between MCE 2005 and XP Pro are

1) MCE 2005 will only join a domain during the initial install (so not =
doable with an OEM, but this is hackable).
2) Does not cache network logon credentials (but this goes away with the =
hack for domain joining)

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Display\Security
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Posted by Michael J. Mahon on August 25, 2006, 6:04 pm
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83dawg wrote:
> Today I was told by an associate at Best Buy that the XP Media Center 2005
> operating system was XP Pro with service pack 2 with the Media Center add-on
> (whatever that means). I was very skeptical and asked him a few times if he
> was sure---to which he responded affirmatively. He said XP Media Center had
> the same capabilities as XP Pro, including the ability to remotely control
> one computer, say your work computer, from another computer, say your home
> computer.
>
> Would someone please tell me if this is correct, as I do not want to spend
> the extra money on an XP Pro machine for the remote desktop control if XP
> Media Center 2005 wil do the same thing.
>
> Thanks so much for your response.

The associate was correct--congratulations both to you and to Best Buy.
;-)

There are a couple of "corner case" differences addressed by Doug.

-michael

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Posted by Tom Scales on August 25, 2006, 8:02 pm
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> Today I was told by an associate at Best Buy that the XP Media Center 2005
> operating system was XP Pro with service pack 2 with the Media Center
> add-on
> (whatever that means). I was very skeptical and asked him a few times if
> he
> was sure---to which he responded affirmatively. He said XP Media Center
> had
> the same capabilities as XP Pro, including the ability to remotely control
> one computer, say your work computer, from another computer, say your home
> computer.
>
> Would someone please tell me if this is correct, as I do not want to spend
> the extra money on an XP Pro machine for the remote desktop control if XP
> Media Center 2005 wil do the same thing.
>
> Thanks so much for your response.

The answer is yes, which has already been posted. That said, the remote
desktop CLIENT which can control your work XP Pro machine is included in
every XP version, including Home. Only Pro and MCE can be remote desktop
SERVERS and BE controlled.

Tom



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