windows-server-2003

What are the usable compiled server side languages as of today?

I've heard of ASP.NET compiled DLLs which only works on Windows Server, but I would like to know if there are any other compiled server side languages?, maybe even ones for Apache server? Installation of the runtime shouldn't be a problem because I will have physical access to the Unix/Windows servers, but if it is a CGI plugin its an a...

Handle mobile email uploads on Windows

I am working on a project in ASP.NET MVC and a requirement is that users are able to upload images (using their mobile device) via email. I have an idea but I wanted to know if there is a better way of doing this. My plan: The user picks (or is assigned) a mobile email address to upload to. ([email protected]) The user takes a ...

Software to find differences between server configurations

In order to troubleshoot a Java Web app that works in one server but not in a others, we are looking for software to find the software/registry/version differences between Windows 2003 servers. Does anyone knows of a free or commercial product that can help us do this? ...

How to determine amount of time it takes for a system to completely boot up?

In my company, we run several startup scripts when users login - in addition to the various TSR applications. I attempted to create a script (vbscript) that would allow me to output the the two times (or calculated time) into a text file located on the network share. This would allow me to trend startup times - since I get complaints c...

Strange SharePoint mapping issue

I have a SharePoint document library, mapped to a network drive, the path is Z:\[Document Library Name]\ If I browse the folder locally using windows explorer, I have no problems accessing the folder, and can create, edit and delete files and other folders. But when I try copying using .net (standard stuff), I get an error sayi...

svctraceviewer for windows server 2003

I am trying to get the svctraceviewer installed on windows server 2003. I found that it's part of the Windows SDK which is of huge size. Moreover, i wouldn't want install Windows SDK on a server unless it's a hot patch. Is there a way to download or copy the tool separately(probably from windows vista)? Is there an alternative tool that...

Windows server 2003 : requirements for website deployment

Hi every body, I have one ASP.NET website having following associated components ASP.NET framework 3.5 MS Chart AJAX Components Connection with external webservice for data Oracle 10g Enterprise edition I am going to deploy all web site component, database, email server and FTP service under same hardware. Here I would like to kno...

SVN+SSH authentication isses when running CruiseControl.NET 1.4.4 SP1 service on Windows Server 2003

The SVN+SSH protocol works great for the logged-in user because we have Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) running in the background for that user. When we try to run the ccservice (as opposed to the ccnet.exe app) the svn+ssh fails. What am I missing in the config to get it working? <cruisecontrol xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder">...

A Record or Hosts File on a Windows 2003 DNS Server

I have a Windows 2003 DNS server that forwards on to OpenDNS. I want to set it up so that when someone requests dev.mydomain.com instead of requesting the IP from OpenDNS it returns a local IP address. The reason I want to do this is because I have a local dev server called dev locally and dev.mydomain externally. I'd like it if I'm in...

How to connect to SQL server through IP

I have a remote server that has win2003 installed I can connect to the machine using remote desktop and am succesfully hosting a web app on the server I need to connect to the SQL server on that machine using a sql compare tool that I have. What are the steps that I need to take to be able to connect to the SQL server given that all I...

Significant Performance Decrease when moving from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 (IIS 6 to IIS 7)

Hello Folks: Our ASP.Net 2.0 web app was running happily along on Windows Server 2003. We were starting to see some of the limits of the environment approaching, such as memory and CPU usage spikes, and as we're getting ready to scale we decided it was time for a larger server with higher availability. We decided to move to Windows Se...

Windows service running on Windows Server 2003 cannot call an xml web service on the same machine

Hello all, I have an XML web service running on my Windows 2003 server. I have a windows service running on the same machine. I want to call the XML web service from the windows service. This works fine on my development machine, which is running Windows XP. However, when I try to do this on my Windows Server 2003 box, it times ou...

Windows 2003 crashing with .NET 3.5 SP1

I have a product I developed based on Linq and Entity Framwork. Before they upgraded to SP1 I got an exeption when I tried to find the Entity Framework DLL. I asked the customer to upgrade to SP1. After that, they are getting bluescreen. Are there any known problems with .NET 3.5 SP1 and Windows 2003? I have a dump file. I downloaded ...

Remove IPSEC policy from W2k3 DC

I just can't for the life of me remember. We were setting up IPSEC for a VPN along time ago and added IPSEC that has always caused 1091 1085 errors. We are not using it so I would like to remove it but cant find where. ...

Are GUIDs generated on Windows 2003 safe to use as session IDs?

My web application operates only over SSL and sets a time limited cookie for each user after they successfully login with a username and password. The biggest weaknesses in the system are one compromising an existing user's cookie. And two guessing a session ID GUID. I know of mechanisms for the first weakness but I'm wondering how muc...

BackgroundWorker limitation on Windows server 2003

I am currently having an issue with BackgroundWorker running on Windows Server 2003. I have a window application that need to run more than 50 threads. The code I wrote use BackgroundWorker(BW) as a Thread wrapper to update data onto a window form. The issue is that the code are able to run more than 50 BWs on my XP machine, but stop at...

Application pool identity in IIS and Integrated security to SQL Server

If I have an ASP.NET web app using impersonation and a SQL Server connectionstring with Integrated Security = true, does the identity of the IIS application pool of the app play any role? Does the identity need to be set to some specific user (LocalSystem, NetworkServices or a domain user)? This is on Windows 2003. ...

use win7 as dev-machine operating system enough??

so far i have winsrv 2003 as the operating system on my dev-machine. now my manager asks me if i can switch to win7 because of licencing costs. anybody of you know any good reasons for doing/not doing this? ...

How to remove or change port number once allocated

I have .exe file which only run the application(not a setup) of 1 mb...if i run it on windowes 2003 server it normally ask for port number...i hvae allocated a port ,now it is giving an arreor (;6overflow)...application is buit in vb6. to solve this problem i want o give a try by changing port no...how can i remove/change port no once a...

how to get list of port which are in use at server

how to get list of ports which are in use at server ...