As far as remote booting the server, you could go into the bios settings and set it to "wake on lan" and then when the MCE PC tries to access the hard drive on the server it should wake up and work -

That won't work unless the media center PC sends a magic packet to the WHS.

To do that, I built a media centre application called WOLPacket, it'll wake up your WHS whenever media centre starts or you select the WOLPacket tile in the menu.

As it's an MCPL application it can only be installed on Vista or Win7 machines.

Don't think so. After all, if it's powered off how will it detect anything?

You could use this to remotely force a hibernate/sleep.

What do you mean remotely force a power off / power on?

WOL should work for turning it on, and a wmi vbscript should work to turn if off. There is also a WHS add-in called AutoExit that you might find useful.
http://www.asoft.be/prod_autoexitwhs.html

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you use a 360 as an Extender it will wake up your Media Center.

dgaust

That won't work unless the media center PC sends a magic packet to the WHS.

To do that, I built a media centre application called WOLPacket, it'll wake up your WHS whenever media centre starts or you select the WOLPacket tile in the menu.

As it's an MCPL application it can only be installed on Vista or Win7 machines.

Nice, I created something similar for my own usage but it's good to have a solution with an installer for people to use.

 

bjdraw

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you use a 360 as an Extender it will wake up your Media Center.

But only on the second MCX connection attempt, well it always does that for me in Vista. Wonder if it's any better with Win7 ?