Well…….

……this has had me ripping my hair out and well i thought what the hell, i’ll post it here. Its not really something you will come across too often unless you have a modern forward thinking office (or high tech home).

The crux of the matter – How on earth do you make an Xbox 360 play nicely with a Vista Media Centre PC that is connected to a domain running Windows Small Business Server 2008?

Well, it is actually quite easy – when you know how.

The first step is to make sure that the Xbox can communicate with the Media Centre PC.

Fire up your Server console and start digging into Active Directory Users and Computers, expand the domain and drill through the organisational units until you get to:

<Domain> – MyBusinss – Computers – SBSComputers

In here you will see the AD account for your computer, drag that account into the SBSServers Unit.

Hey presto job done, your xbox can now see your media centre pc. If you want to speed up the group policy processing so it happens immediately don’t forget to run the following on your media centre pc:

gpupdate /force