Live Mesh Tech Preview available in Australia

UPDATE: Some people are still getting the page saying Live Mesh is only available in the U.S Only. I am chasing up the Live Mesh team for a update to the issue.

UPDATE 2: If your having troubles signing up please check your Passport profile doesnt have missing or incorrect information in the Country/Region field.

Live Mesh Tech Preview is now open to Australians without being on a waiting list. I have been using this since it was in Beta and really like it! Live Mesh is a great way to keep things synchronised across multiple devices through the web. It even supports P2P sharing and has a live desktop to access your files through the browser.

What is Live Mesh?
Watch this hands on video thanks to on10.net

Published 31 July 08 03:16 by Deeps

Filed under: Live Mesh

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# Peter said on July 31, 2008 3:32 AM:

Just tried to register and it mentioned that the service is not available to Australia yet an it put me on a waiting list. Any ideas?

# Chris said on July 31, 2008 8:21 PM:

Me too, same message as Peter, it says "Sign up for a reminder Thanks for your interest! Live Mesh is currently available in the U.S. only. Click "Sign up" to receive an email when Live Mesh is available in your country/region"

# Deeps said on July 31, 2008 8:43 PM:

@Peter and Chris Let me double check with the Live Mesh team and get back to you!

# Jason Innes said on July 31, 2008 8:53 PM:

What's the latest with issue ? I also signed up only to be told that I couldn't use it because I'm in Australia...

# Peter said on August 5, 2008 6:15 PM:

Thanks Deeps, I changed my passport profile as you suggested and it worked.

Thanks again.

# The MSDN Australia Blog said on August 5, 2008 10:41 PM:

Hi all, I was very excited to see that Australia is now on the technology preview program for Live Mesh

# Deeps said on August 6, 2008 3:20 AM:

@Peter good to see it worked. Ill do a blog post around how Im actually using Live Mesh soon

# Paul Linton said on August 14, 2008 1:58 AM:

All my passport information says the Country is Australia but I still get "You have to be US". Is there a particular piece of profile which needs to be set?

# Duro said on August 14, 2008 2:05 AM:

I've made sure that my Windows live ID is up-to-date, and Country/Region: Australia is selected, however I'm still one of the users that is receiving the error, it's not available in your region.. Is this still a problem??

# Mark Foley said on August 17, 2008 2:43 AM:

Same for me. I have been over and over my profile using the profile centre and every address and phone number has Australia set as the Country/Region but still I get the "Live Mesh is currently available in the U.S. only".

Any ideas?

# GollyJer said on August 19, 2008 6:15 PM:

Where exactly are you guys changing the country information in your LiveID? Don't see a place at https://accountservices.passport.net

# GollyJer said on August 19, 2008 7:08 PM:

Never mind. Figured it out.

https://account.live.com/summarypage.aspx

Changed my Country/Region and all is good.

# Mark Foley said on August 20, 2008 6:28 AM:

Thanks for that GollyJer. I changed by live ID Country/Region at

https://account.live.com/summarypage.aspx

and it now works for me. The email I got from Microsoft telling me about Mesh had an "Update Your Profile" link at the top which took me to:

https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/InfoDefault.aspx

This is the WRONG place. You must use the first link above. I had thought the Passport and Live ID were the same thing but apparently there are two profiles. I have no idea why.

Mark