If you follow my Google Reader Shared Items, you probably saw the Live announcement that there would be Mesh updates today.  I awoke to the Mesh icon in the Dock on my MacBook bouncing away, wanting to update.  The update wasn’t automatic, and due to my not running as an Admin, and the application already existing, it actually took me logging in to my Administrator account (it seems that the Authenticate message got trampled by the do you want to replace this item message.)  Everything seemed to go smoothly.  The Mesh application remembered my credentials, and seemed to connect with no problems.

Connecting to Live Mesh with my Windows Mobile device prompted me to download an update as well.  The install went fine, however I did have to relogin to get logged back in.  Even though there was no indication that a Soft Reset was needed after the install, the log in process for Live Mesh never finished until I soft reset my phone.

I’m still happy with the Live Mesh preview.  Files are syncing as they should, and performance seems to be pretty good.  I’m still confused as to the positioning of Live Mesh, Live Sync (formerly FolderShare), and SkyDrive.  I need to write that blog post.

I finally got Live Mesh working on my Mac, my phone, and my fileserver.  I'm waiting on a new laptop for work, so I haven't installed there yet.

I have to say  this is very cool.  At the very basic, it does file sync.  This is what most users will see at first.  I've used several different sync applications, and within a couple of days, I've been quite satisfied with this solution.  One thing to note is that the Windows Mobile client actually does scheduled sync with your Live Mesh desktop in the cloud!

The Windows Mobile and Mac client sync with the cloud.  The Windows client has the ability to sync with the cloud, and to sync peer to peer with other Windows clients.

The interesting thing is that you can sync with other people's Mesh objects, if they invite you.  I can see this replacing Groove and FolderShare when it is release (it's a Technology Preview right now.)

More to come as I play with it.  BTW, there's a SDK as well.

With the new availability of the Mac client, I'm going to try Live Mesh again.  I was able to get logged in to my account, and download the Mac client.  I'm getting an error trying to log in, but I suspect the service is getting hammered right now.

Update: Looks like I'm not the only one getting this error.

On10.net has a good video on Live Mesh, and the Mac client.  If you're interested, it's worth the 10 minutes.