SOLVED: XBOX 360 Can’t Connect To Windows 8

Well this was a tricky one.  I installed Windows 8 Enterprise and found that my Xbox 360 VIDEO APP would not connect to my Win8 PC… or should I say any of my Win8 PC’s.  Very frustrating considering they are all tied together by a Home Group and the Xbox was activated as an Extender to my Media Center machines.

I thought this had to do with authentication.  I wanted to figure out how to enter my Windows 8 credentials in Xbox but, as you can see in the screen shots below, the solution was not so dramatic .

On your Windows 8 PC:

1. go to the START tiles page
2. type MEDIA SH
3. select SETTINGS from the menu on the right
4. Select MEDIA STREAMING OPTIONS
5. Enable sharing with your XBOX