Live Mesh Beta: Suggestions - Go cast your vote!
<Updated 3/19/2009>
We have had a huge number of customer feature requests since the first release of Live Mesh in April 2008. These feature requests were first catalogued in a Wish List and then, once our beta phase started, a new Suggestions thread. Now that our Microsoft Connect site has been open to everyone for a little while, we thought a new and improved suggestions thread was in order. What is the improvement? You can now rate the top suggestions on Connect. Just follow the link below and cast your vote:
Top Suggestions Page
Of course, we still want to hear any new suggestions you may have, so feel free to post your ideas here. Or, better yet, open a new suggestion, and start a thread here on the forums with a link to your suggestion so that others can vote for it. (Please note that you will need to sign into Connect in order to leave feedback.) Live Mesh continues to evolve in response to all your great feedback, so keep it coming!(Again, all current top suggestions can now be found here.)
Thank you,
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- Is voting by validation or by star rating - or a combination of both?
Hey Nachmore, that's actually a really good question.
To help break it down I'll do the quick and easy Ken brings you Connect!
Any feedback that is submitted by anyone into Connect has two options for other people to comment on it.
Vote & Validation.
Validation is really just that, you are validating that you are encountering the same problem, most people use it for bug type feedback not suggestions. This helps us to determine how many people are hitting a particular bug. If we see a lot of validations and duplicate bug reports it definitely gets a lot more visibility by the team on what priority it should be in the fix list. (That's not to say that bugs with very low validation/duplicate reports don't get looked at!)
Voting is how important this bug or suggestion is to you. Each person has their own idea on what is important to them. What I may want may not be exactly what you want or what Ben wants. The star rating (1 through 5) is for you to tell us what you think of a suggestion or bug and how important it is to you. Sometimes we think, "Hey this is pretty important! Customers must want this because we think it's a super cool idea!" And we find out that no, most of you want something else entirely. By Voting it helps us to determine what new features to implement first in future releases. Not all will make it in, and some may take longer to add then others, but trust me on this one, your voice on the votes really helps us out!
So in a nutshell,
Validation == I can reproduce this problem too!
Vote == This is how important this bug or suggestion is to me!Hope that helps clear things up for everyone.
-Ken
- Bearbeitetkensm [msft]MSFT, ModeratorDienstag, 27. Januar 2009 04:20typo
- Bearbeitetkensm [msft]MSFT, ModeratorDienstag, 27. Januar 2009 04:22typo
Great stuff Ben. The Live Mesh team could teach the rest of Microsoft (especially the Windows Live team) a thing or two about engaging with customers and soliciting feedback.
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson- In order not to dirty the Connect space, could we please reopen: "Live Mesh Bar attached to local Explorer folders is annoying"so that people can vote on that feature.
I would imagine that the feature would be finer grained control over the display of the window - I would probably prefer to set it to as hidden as possible (say an extra button on the menu bar), although it's not a hugely annoying feature of Live Mesh.
- nachmore said:
In order not to dirty the Connect space, could we please reopen: "Live Mesh Bar attached to local Explorer folders is annoying"so that people can vote on that feature.
I would imagine that the feature would be finer grained control over the display of the window - I would probably prefer to set it to as hidden as possible (say an extra button on the menu bar), although it's not a hugely annoying feature of Live Mesh.
Hi Oren,It would actually be preferable to have you open a new suggestion. With the way these suggestions (submitted through Connect) get tracked internally by the team, a new suggestion will have better visibility than reactivating an old one.
Thanks,
Ben.
- I would love to be able to add another device from another user. I remote connect to my girlfriend's laptop all the time to help her out. She runs live mesh too. It would be so easy to add her laptop to my devices under her username instead of having her sign into live mesh under my user name and adding it to my devices.
- First thing is I completely agree with Nightryder21, I do the same for my parents, my little brother, a tecchie friend who I often troubleshoot \ test out things with, my girlfriend and her mother.... so all and all, it would be very useful!
My new suggestions are:
1- to allow exe files to by synced... in fact just to have no restriction on file types, including hidden files.
2- to be able to create a structure of live folders in the live desktop. Personally i think that having it as tabs would be great, kind of like how microsoft live workspace has "workspaces" on the left and then you actual files on the right. Although, using tabs like this would have the same issue of having a single level of organization.
- Bearbeitetjulienrl Montag, 2. Februar 2009 23:29second suggestion
- Hi Julien,
Just a quick note - Live Mesh currently allows the syncing of .exe files (I'm syncing one as we speak)... other file types (as detailed here) are somewhat problematic.
Cheers,
Oren
- Duplicate Sync Folders: https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=410802
Sync only when Lan Connection is present: https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=410808
- Hey,
So I am an active user of iPhoto and Picasa on my Mac and PCs. I have many photos on the applications and as you may know these applications store photos in odd ways - they don't just have a folder they have original files, temp files and whatnot.
I'd love a mesh plugin for both of these applications that would sync my libraries - iphoto to iphoto, picasa to picasa, iphoto to picasa, and store the photos online as a backup.
This would be such a good feature!
I also think the Mac version should be identical to the windows one otherwise many users will get confused. Option to not launch at system boot. I hate having to MSCONFIG my way to this option.
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=365240
As Jamie stated above please get other product teams to get more active in community feedback.
- Sync with SkyDrive and make one large service (dropping SkyDrive's 50MB/upload limit and keeping Live Mesh's no limit). Why are they two separate services anyway?
- mrSleepwalker said:because one is a released product. One isn't. Why is that such a difficult concept for people to get their head around?
Why are they two separate services anyway?
http://jamiethomson.spaces.live.com/ | http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson - Here is a suggestion:
Go vote if you think it sounds interesting.
Share mesh folders with non-mesh users and non-microsoft-live-id-holders maybe in an html widget
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/LiveMesh/thread/7ec4f88b-9caa-4b25-aa8d-f7ccc3db63c8
Cheers,
Allan - I would like to see Live Mesh and MS My Phone intergrated:
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=412245 - iPhoto and Picasa sync:
Mac + PC versions should be identical: https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=412281Live mesh to continue sync'ing when logged off: https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=412922
- What's difficult for me to get my head around is why there are 2 products that do basically the same thing. The only differences are that SkyDrive is web only and has an upload limit. If I am missing a reason, please inform me. I like to get my head around things.
- Printer redirection, as in RDP, would be great - so I can print from a Mesh remote desktop session to a printer next to me.
- USB stick support (portable client that doesn't need installation).
- Finish implementing the other applications that we've seen in the videos. Looks like you've got some exciting stuff planned other than file sync, but so far I haven't seen anything.
- Better handling of animations on the remote desktop. It needs to start dropping old frames and keep the keyboard/mouse responsive.
- iPhone app with file editing and printing would be awesome!
Ability to let user choose detail folder under device and memory card when user meshes data to mobile device.
- New Mac suggestion: Remove Live Mesh icon from DockIf you agree that the Live Mesh client on a Mac should be installed like a service (similar to Growl) and not run like an interactive application (with an unnecessary icon in the Dock), vote for this suggestion!
- Suggestion: Allow file syncing without user being logged in
I'd like to support file syncing on machines that have no user logged in. This would allow backing up server devices that have important files, but typically have no user logged in on them.
SBussinger - Hi there,
Here are my main 2 suggestions - great software already though!
1) Favorites syncing: this is the best way I have found yet to sync my favorites between devices, right into my IE Favorites folder, so thank you! But everytime you click on a favorite to open a site in IE, Live Mesh thinks you updated the link, and adds it to the "News" tab as an updated file, thereby clogging it with "junk" activity. Is there anyway to avoid this?
2) While I love most of the "Live" software suite, I would like to be able to set some of them to log in automatically, and not others. For example, I would like Live Mesh to log in automatically, but not Messenger, or live mail on the web. At the moment, the minute you set one fo them to log in automatically, they all do.
Hope these make it into your list soon
Thanks
Regards
Fabien - iPhone Application - vote :)
- NETWORK MONITOR
A feature that would monitor network activity and only upload when the network is idle. Very useful for those with slower connections.
VOTE ON IT HERE:
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=419952 - Hello all
Please add an option to disable the "Interact with remote computer" & "Tips and Tricks" Panel/Window when connected with live mesh remote desktop.
It really takes a lot of space and after reading it a few times it really is not needed any more.
Thank you
Best regards
Raini - Suggestion: Ability to resolve all unresolved conflicts at onceIt would allow people to resolve the 1000 issues they have by just clicking a checkbox.
Enhance "News" view with source/destination information, date uploaded/received
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=421756- Jamie, I guess I can understand your comment, but it's a large corporation and responsiveness varies. I've had dreadful response from the abuse/security team but live @ edu has been super so far.
- mrSleepwalker, I have to agree. I'd like to see SkyDrive, Office Live, and Mesh come together somehow. I don't want to see Mesh ruined, it's excellent now, but the idea of including SkyDrive in the Mesh is an interesting concept.
- Messenger chatlog sync integration
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=423079
using a live mesh folder its not the same
- Been said, but I'll add my "vote" for the idea...
Live Mesh and Live Sync need to be merged into the best of both! I should be able to:
1. Sync any file which can be managed by MOE (I know, some DB types are tough)
2. Invite anyone with a Windows Live ID to sync a particular folder from/with me
3. Use SkyDrive as a sync location, without the 50MB limit on an individual file
Also, can we please
1. Get rid of the need to drop down into Vista Basic color scheme for Remote Desktop?
2. Figure out how to setup sync for a folder when one of it's subfolders is already setup for sync? - Add symbol icons for more file types
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=423681
Custom limits for upload/download ratehttps://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=423684
just vote for it! - Maybe the Tag is a useful feature for data management :)
-tianjunyu - Wanted to toss support for PowerPC Macs in the ring. That would allow me to finally add my PowerBook G4 into the "mesh."
- Add a report in News to list all the unresolved sync errors in the mesh fabric. Also, if there is an unresolved sync error display an error icon (!) on the blue mesh takbar icon
- JAgostoni said:
Wanted to toss support for PowerPC Macs in the ring. That would allow me to finally add my PowerBook G4 into the "mesh."
Here is a link to the feedback that I added:
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=425700
Thanks.
- TAKE REMOTE CONTROL OUT OF THE FEATURE LIST... IT SUCKS AND IS NOT USABLE. MAKES THE WHOLE CONCEPT/ABILITY OF LIVE MESH LOOK LIKE A JOKE
- I want the multi-monitor bug back! I have multiple monitors on my mesh-connected computers, but when I connect to them, I really only want my primary desktop... as opposed to the whole thing all squished together.... makes it near impossible to work with on a netbook. thanks! (technically, I really would like the option to "choose" which monitor I want to make visible in Mesh's remote desktop)
- Been working on a netbook myself, and here's a suggestion: When you're not in full screen view, you have the option to switch between squished and actual size. Switch to actual size, and the setting sticks when you switch to full screen. Then the screen is actual size and you can scroll around by continuing to move the mouse after it has reached an edge.
For me, the previous multi-monitor setup was a bit of a pain because it would force my gadgets into my primary monitor and reset the refresh rate on the CRT to the bare minimum, which would really kill my eyes.
I dunno how fully featured they intend on making the remote desktop, but yeah the ability to have a bit more control would be nice. I personally would also like to see the ability to hide the blue bar at the top. - After my OneNote files have bloomed to a pretty large size - adds another vote for delta sync.
- upload compression would be a wonderful ability in my book. that way on slower connections uploads would go a bit faster and then they would stay compressed until it reached a computer and live mesh would then decompress as it saved the file
Taylor Johnson AKA Computer_Tech - how about trying to make support for phones not running windows mobile such as the Sony Ericsson brand and other similar brands
Taylor Johnson AKA Computer_Tech Bandwidth and Data Throughput Control
Dear All,
My Feature Suggestion is that on each device Live Mesh monitors and manages bandwidth/data throughput. Suggested controls:
1 - View Current and required data throughput to complete sync on each device, based on when last seen, and what has happened since across the connected Mesh.
2 - Set Sync only on certain network Connections (to avoid using 3G or HSDPA at £15 per GB, only sync when on unmetered connection)
3 - Be able to set default to Manual sync (for example on a laptop with varying interent connectivity) or Auto sync for a desktop on a Broadband connection
4 - Include a time to complete Sync feature, using data to go and average throughput from the previous 3 mins, together with some times for sample rates, you may choose to go to a coffee shop for WiFi or stick with GPRS depending on what needs to be done
5 - Be able to mark a file or folder and contents with a sync priority (Low, Med, High should do) whereby this could determine the order by which files are synced and also how much of the available bandwidth is allocated to Live Mesh - All bandwidth until the high's are done - Normal background bandwidth until the Mediums are done and finally minimal (5Kb/s perhaps) to slowly bring the lows in sync.- Hi,
I would like to suggest a change to mesh desktop sharing.I understand folder to folder sharing in live mesh. But, it seems like a complicated way to perform a simple task. Rather than inviting live ID'd to share individual folders, It would be better to have a feature to allow chosen user ID's to access the entire mesh desktop and it's folders or contents . This feature would be simple to add and would be easier. the link below is more explaination.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/LiveMesh/thread/25faf2aa-a11e-403e-854d-426056814757
Diana MSDN and Expression Web forums Moderator http://djarts-express.spaces.live.com- Bearbeitetdjartsinc Dienstag, 2. Juni 2009 16:18more info
- I want to send download links for single files:
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=469803 I want to send download links for single files:
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=469803
That would a feature request for Windows Live SkyDrive. Live Mesh doesn't share out files, you share folders. The Live Desktop is not meant as a file store for public or shared downloads, it is a sync point to share with other Live Mesh users.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator- Not sure if this should be classified as bug or suggestion...Identical files (same hash) in the same folder / path should not generate conflictsI have two identical folders (exactly same files), one in my work pc and other at home. I added both to Live Mesh keeping the folder (live mesh folder) name. First thing I noticed was that all files were duplicated in Live Mesh. After a while the Live Mesh App found thousands of conflicts (1 for each file), and asked me to resolve them. After solving the conflicts the news feed showed: "thousands of files were deleted by AJCS", and thousands of files were "created" in my recycle bin.
Since the files are totally identical I think this shouldn't happen. Before the sync process start a hash could be computed to check if the file(s) are identical. If so, no transfer should be done (for that file), but the sync status should be updated. - Suggestion: Live Mesh should allow desktop folder (c:\users\username\desktop) synchronizationCurrently Live Mesh doesn't allow you to sync the desktop folder (c:\users\username\desktop).I believe that desktop synchronization is very useful and would like to see it in future releases.
- Please give an option to totally hide the Live Mesh bar that shows up next to Windows Explorer and/or integrate its functions into Explorer! That irritating feature has kept me using Windows Live Sync when I'd rather be using Mesh. It is very distracting and takes up screen space. Also, an option to not change the appearance of icons of folders when you add them to Mesh. The blue folders look weird.
In short, I like Live Mesh's online desktop capability, but aesthetically prefer Live Sync's minimalist, in-the-background, non-intrusive appearance.
- I would like Live Mesh to integrate with SkyDrive.
SkyDrive provides you with masses of storage, however it's means is less useful to me that LM. I would like to see an option in LM that allows you to disable the SkyDrive element of Windows Live for your account, but transfer that 25GB entitlement from SyDrive into LM.
That would then give yo ua 30GB LM account which is much more useful. You basically have your entire My Documents folder as a Mesh directory!
Richard Green, MCP - Hi, Richard. You're not alone in this request. In my opinion, it is more than just Live Mesh and SkyDrive, but also Live Sync. There needs to be a merger of these services.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator My Suggestions:
1) Extra Sync Settings please. I mistakenly deleted a file from Live Mesh and that file rapidly deleted from every share. Please add a feature for this. I can be able to store my Mesh files in a Backup share, could be modified but not deleted or blanked.
2) More detailed logs. This system is perfect for Clustered Servers. We don't need to use any other 3rd party tool to sync files between clustered web servers. If you can improve sync settings and log files, Mesh will be incredible.
3) Web-based Notepad support for Live Desktop. I want to modify my txt files on Live Desktop.
4) File links to share with friends. I can be able to share my files with my friends. That can be direct link or "Share with Email" feature to send small files with Email.
And It works perfect with Windows 7 RTM x64. Thanks to Mesh Team.
www.yusufozturk.info- When I open a document at a public computer from my live desktop and make some changes to it I have to upload the file manually to get those changes synced. It would be great if the file would be synced with my live desktop as soon as I hit the save-button on the public pc.
- Interesting request. I am sure others would also like this, but the issue here is that you are not opening the file from the Live Desktop, you are actually downloading the file to open it. It won't save back to the Live Desktop, but requires you to save it locally first.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator I want members of a Live Group to be able to run an instance of a Live Mesh Application that all members of the group share.
Right now there isn't even a mechanism that I can find to "add an application" to a Live Group (ala Facebook applications). The best I can do is put a URL in a discussion forum and tell folks to click it.
It seems to me to make perferct sense to marry Live Mesh Applications to Live Groups (because the Group would be those people with whom you would want to share data for that instance of the application).
The other issue I have as an ISV is that I need to charge for my applications. So at some point in the process of sharing an instance of an application there has to be a method for the user to pay for the use of that instance.I want members of a Live Group to be able to run an instance of a Live Mesh Application that all members of the group share.
Right now there isn't even a mechanism that I can find to "add an application" to a Live Group (ala Facebook applications). The best I can do is put a URL in a discussion forum and tell folks to click it.
It seems to me to make perferct sense to marry Live Mesh Applications to Live Groups (because the Group would be those people with whom you would want to share data for that instance of the application).
The other issue I have as an ISV is that I need to charge for my applications. So at some point in the process of sharing an instance of an application there has to be a method for the user to pay for the use of that instance.
I believe that you want to head over to the developer forums:
Live Framework Developer forums:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/liveframework/threads/
Live Services Developer portal:
http://dev.live.com/liveframework/
This forum is specifically for the Live Mesh client application and the Live Desktop of Live Mesh.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums ModeratorHi,
I also have an iPhone and would like to be able to add it to my mesh as a device. I would like the iphone live mesh client to be able to do the following:
1. For photos and Videos, I would like to see the Live mesh client setup a new Photo Album in the iPhone's Photo Albums for each folder of photos I setup to sync from my mesh to the iphone. In this manner, new photos would get synced from my mesh to the iPhone. In addition the Live Mesh iPhone client would need to be able to sync the contents of any iPhone photo albums to my mesh as a new folder and the Live Mesh iPhone client would need to give me the option to select or deselect which iPhone Photo Albums to sync. I would code the Live Mesh iPhone client to either convert incompatible formats or only allow compatible formats to sync.
2. For Music, I would like to see the same basic functionality, to sync only compatible formats (mp3) along with Artist, coverart and playlists (some of this might need conversion), directly into the iPod application built into the device. I would also like to be able to sync the same content back to my mesh.
3. For text files, I would like the Live Mesh iPhone client to sync text, simple rtf and html formated text into the iPhone's Notes application. Each file should show up as a new entry in the application. Notes should be sync'd back to my mesh to a default folder called iPhone Notes (I should be able to rename this folder and it should still sync the content after renaming it). Obviously as the Notes application only a single format, conversion of formatted text would be needed.
4. For the Calendar, I should be able to save appointments in .ics format to a folder in my mesh. When sync'd to the Live Mesh iPhone client, these should get added as appointments to the iPhone Calendar application, changes and updates to existing appiontments should also be sync'd, the Live Mesh client on my desktop should be able to access my Outlook client and read my Calendar to automatically take the current weeks appointments and drop them in this forlder in ics format to sync.
5. For Contacts, I would like the same functionality as for Calendar, basically for Live mesh to be a conduit between my address book and the contacts application in the iPhone.
I am not actually interested in the remote desktop functionality of Live Mesh for this, I think that while some people would think it was nice, I would not want to use such a small screen to connect to another device in my mesh. In addition, I have no desire to be able to remotely connect into the I-phone and that would probably break some of the rules for the iPhone set by apple.
Right now I have to use Google services to sync Calendar info to my iPhone and I would prefer not to have them data mine my appointments.
Finally, an Live Mesh iPhone client would be a big deal and very good press for Microsoft, yes I know you would prefer I used a Windows Mobile device, but unfortunately there isn't one yet that can compare to the iPhone.- I think Live Mesh could works with portable devices. A Portable Live Mesh Version would be perfect to sync your files wherever you are only using a pen drive. Obviusly I know I can do that using live desktop, but I'd prefer a little app in my pen drive to do this job fastly.
Thanks
Fabio Stawinski - Microsoft Student Partner Interesting request. I am sure others would also like this, but the issue here is that you are not opening the file from the Live Desktop, you are actually downloading the file to open it. It won't save back to the Live Desktop, but requires you to save it locally first.
Well, Steve...
-steve
I guess it would be great for all of us, who work on private computers but also on corporate PCs where Live Mesh is not allowed. Downloading a single file, editing it and uploading it is not what I would call easy or convenient. And it's unsecure, of course. Microsoft Office Live would fill the gap.
http://www.vulkan-post.de- Is the ability to rate/vote closed down on Connect? I am not finding any way to vote!
Keith Barrows Is the ability to rate/vote closed down on Connect? I am not finding any way to vote!
Keith Barrows
If you log in, when you view a specific feedback item, there are two arrows next to the feedback item and either a 0 or a number indicating the number of important (up) and not important (down) votes. Click one of the arrows to add your vote.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare, Live Mesh, & MS Security Essentials Forums Moderator- There have been plenty of suggestions to some how integrate live mesh with skydrive, which is something I definitely support. But at the bare minimum I would like to see an option to open office files accessed through the live desktop with the office web apps. This would eliminate the need to transfer a file to skydrive just to be able to edit it on the go. I added a suggestion for this on connect.
https://connect.microsoft.com/LiveMesh/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=511012
