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I found this page that tells me how to set up Windows Live Sync as a background service on Windows 2003 Server, unfortunately the resource kit tools for 2003 that are mentioned does not work on 2008 server.

http://mswhs.freeforums.org/windows-live-sync-as-a-service-on-whs-t623.html

Also, apparently there is no resource kit tools downloadable for Windows 2008 Server that I can find. Perhaps someone has a link to the relevant tools? (INSTSRV.EXE and SRVANY.EXE.)

Using just plain SC.EXE doesn't work as I assume that the program is then required to be a normal service, and not just any executable.

What other options do I have?

Can I use the task scheduler on 2008 server to start the WindowsLiveSync executable, will that work? I need the executable to stay running even after I've logged off from the server.

Edit: I'm testing the task scheduler way now, and it seems to work, if anyone knows of any caveats with this way I'd be happy to know about them.

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I'm not quite following, I'm using those tools from that reskit on Server 2008 and 2008 R2 without any problems. Define "does not work"? – Oskar Duveborn Mar 25 '10 at 10:38
They failed with a runtime error message, and I googled for it, and the response was that the 2003 reskit tools does not work on 64-bit windows 2008 server. I'll see if I can find the error messages. – Lasse V. Karlsen Mar 29 '10 at 10:41
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