The MSN Remote Record Service allows you to remotely schedule programs to be recorded on your Media Center 2005 PC. A Public Beta is now available but only to users in the United States and Canada. To join the beta...

Go to http://beta.microsoft.com
Sign in with your Passport ID
At the top of the Beta Place page you should see:

"If you were issued a Guest ID by Microsoft, you can sign in by clicking
here."

Click on "clicking here"
Sign in with guest ID: myshows (all one word, all lower case)
Click on "MSN Remote Record Service Beta"
Click on "survey" on the left side of the MSN Remote Record Service Beta
Program page
Click on "MSN Remote Record Beta Nomination Form"
Fill out the form and submit.

All valid nominations will be approved. Once approved, it takes about 24
hours for the information to get through the Beta Place system and testers to have access to the Beta program

Version 1.01.3 of my Media Center Configuration Reset tool is now available for download. This is essentially my 1.02 version of the program with the ‘backup recording schedule’ feature turned off so that I could put out a version which would support Media Center 2005 with Rollup 1 installed. Once I’ve been able to test 1.02 a bit more it will be up for download. http://mvps.org/marksxp/MediaCenter/util/reset.php

Things are finally starting to settle down here, it’s been an interesting few weeks but I think probably one of the best choices I’ve made (as Dominic said it would be many months ago). Luckily for me I managed to get accommodation which had Internet, Sadly coupled with the world’s harshest non UPnP firewall (which prevented me sending email for the first week). Everything seems to be going well, I even like my flat mates which is great. October 1^st also marked my 3^rd year as being a member of the Microsoft MVP program. This year I have switched from Windows Shell/User to Windows Media Center as my primary area. Over the past year Media Center is a product I’ve become much more interested in, so thanks to Microsoft for recognizing me in this area.