windows-2008-r2

Side Effects of Installing 32-bit Software Outside %windir%\Program Files (x86) on Windows 2008 R2

I have a 32-bit app that I need to install and test on a Windows 2008 R2 server. This app has some dependencies on 3rd party 32-bit software (Oracle 10g client and TCL runtime -- a large portion of the app is TCL scripts). This app also creates Windows services to run. The current version of the product requires that its binaries (.exes...

How do I specify what computers can connect to my public facing Windows 2008 R2 server?

How do I lock down my Windows 2008 R2 Server so only certain computers can connect to it? Ideally it would use some sort of certificates. I've done this in Linux, but I don't know where to start with Windows. Thanks! ...

I can't watch videos I upload to drupal

I can upload a video to my drupal instance, but when I try to view the video I don't have rights to do so. I discovered that the IIS_IUSR doesn't have Read & Execute rights on the video even though the IIS_IUSR does on the containing directory. IIS_IUSR has Read & Execute, List folder contents, and Read rights to the directory where fil...