RE: Re: XP Media edition in Action Pack

["Steve Abbott" <steve.abbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its is a superset of Windows XP Pro, but the domain stuff has been
disabled.  You can however (I haven't tried) join a domain from within the
setup.

I upgraded a domain attached MCE2004 machine to MCE2005, and the domain is
still attached.

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From: big_red_frog [mailto:atod@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 20/10/2004 09:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: XP Media edition in Action Pack





Hi All,

Well I just read the microsoft faq, it reckons that media center is
XP Home + and that it has all the functionality of XP home plus the
media center stuff and that the media center aspects can be minimised
or reduced while you do games or standard application type work.

In their words it is the best version of XP to have if you are a home
user (guess that messes up their branding policy!)

There is however comment on it cannot deal with business type domains
and something about credentials cacheing which means nothing to me.

All I want to know now is if it is safe to attempt an on the fly
upgrade or if I am going to have to walk through my AV server and
work out what configurations etc to be ready to reinstall...


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@a...> wrote:
> > Good question, I was going to ask the same thing.  I can't find
> > anything on
> > the partner site that provides a 'base spec', but it must be
there
> > somewhere....
>
> There's a UK forum for MCE here...
>
> http://www.xpmce.com/forum/forum26.html
>
> Let us know what you find.
>
> M.