To host a Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 site within an internal network is it enough if I have a Windows Server 2003 license or are there any other costs?
I plan to use Forms Authentication with SQL Server Express to manage users. ...
windows-server-2003
Item vanishes from Add/Remove Programs
I have installed some software that appears in the add/remove programs list. However it disapears next time I check (using the same login account). I have checked the registry and it all looks correct. Is there saome sort of group policy that could remove this? The software is installed on a virtual Windows 2003 server. ...
Mercurial & Windows Server 2003
Hi all, I just set up Mercurial on our main webserver, hosting repositories via hgwebdir.cgi. The problem I'm having now is when I run hg push from my local machine to the server's repository, it takes an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to push a very small directory, with only a single changeset. Is it possible that I've set someth...
Why did my ASP.NET Web App stop showing AM in times?
I haven't made any code or configuration changes (that I know of) to my ASP.NET web application and this morning it suddenly stopped showing the AM in my displayed times. PM still shows up, just not AM. It's hosted on Windows Server 2003. I figured somehow the OS regional settings might have been changed somehow, but that doesn't appear ...
What tool do you use to export/import groups and user IDs on Windows servers?
Hi. What's a free tool to export the groups and users on a Windows server and then import them again on a rebuilt system? Thanks. ...
IIS redirect from non-www or *.domainname.xyz to www.domainname.com without additional IIS site or DNS entries
Hi everyone, now we all know that the best way to stop the search engine known as Google to avoid indexing http://domain.com as a different site to http://www.domain.com/ is to do a permanent (301) redirect through IIS, or to add a DNS entry that makes www.domain.com the canonial name for pretty much anything under that domain (eg. wild...
installshield: Windir returns c:\documents & settings\fcuser\windows instead of c:\windows
we have a setup developed in installshield vr 6.3. it is a self extractable single setup. it work fine in most on most of the Windows version but on Windows server 2003 64bit in Execution mode when doing RD it return user windows directory against WINDIR i.e. c:\documents & settings\fcuser\windows instead of C:\Windows. According to htt...
Key not valid for use in specified state ? Reporting Services 2008
I'm receiving this error when trying to see a report. ...
how can I modify the drivers for a specific (any) NIC ?
I want to force one way communication only, between two computers in MS windows 2003 server OS for security purposes. ...
Access Denied while using System.Diagnostics.Process
I am trying to use the unmanaged ImageMagick library in my ASP.NET application from the command line using System.Diagnostics.Process. Basically, users will upload an .eps file to the site, and then I will run the command line command to convert it into .jpg. This is the code I'm using to try and run the command: Dim proc As N...
Retrieving Windows DHCP servers list and scope information of each DHCP server using .NET
We are doing a small dashboard to retrieve and display the DHCP servers list in a LAN and then getting the Scope information like IPs used and unused and the count using .NET preferably C#. How could that be made possible. ...
What is a good way of checking to see if a particular user may access a particular file?
I am working on application which runs as a special unprivileged user. I would like to be able to easily check to see if the user can read a given file. It seems like this should be easy, even when I go into the file in Windows Explorer and see that the read permission is checked, it sometimes seems that there is still something preven...
Strange Sql Server 2005 behavior
Background: I have a site built in ASP.NET with Sql Server 2005 as it's database. The site is the only site on a Windows Server 2003 box sitting in my clients server room. The client is a local school district, so for data security reasons there is no remote desktop access and no remote Sql Server connection, so if I have to service the...
Creating subdomain in URL alaising
I am creating a social networking site and one of the requirements is to have the subdomain like URL for each user. For example, for the user1 his profile page will be user1.mysitename.com and for the user2 profile page will be user2.mysitename.com. Can it be done using url aliasing? basically user1.mysitename.com should be www.mysitena...
Setting WMI permissions remotely on windows server 2003
Hello. I know this question is related to 'server setting' but I can't receive any answer (http://serverfault.com/questions/141754/setting-wmi-permissions-remotely-on-windows-server-2003) this question is close to server setting, but is also very close to programming. if not close please here's the question. I made a simple progra...
Windows server Task Scheduler, close after?
I have a scheduled task on my server which runs a PHP script every minute. In the 'Run' part of the scheduled task I have the following: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://www.example.co.uk/script.php" So when it runs it opens Internet Explorer and browses to that URL. Is it possible to get it to close Internet...
Using UNC path as paths location in Mecurial IIS6 Server2003
I'm running the latest Mercurial and Python 2.6; IIS6 is using the wildcard ISAPI method to attach the site to the Mecurial hgwebdir_wsgi [paths] \ = \\COMP3254\TestRepo\* [web] baseurl = / allow_push = * push_ssl = false style = monoblue The setup works perfectly if I reference the local drive E:\repo* but doesnt work if I specify t...
NAnt authorization access issue
I'm having a problem trying to move a file through my network, I want to transfer the release from my continuos integration virtual machine to the host of this VM. but i get this: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '\\192.168.0.36\E$\WebApps\MyProgram' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, Str...
default file/folder security permissions sbs 2003
I have lost all file/folder security permissions of a SBS 2003 installation and was wondering is there some command I can run to restore system file/folder permissions to there default values. I lost the permissions when I had boot error and had to restore the primary boot sector from backup primary boot sector and had to tun fixboot to...
Installing ImageMagick extension with php/windows
Running PHP Version 5.2.5 on Windows Server 2003 with IIS. Have virtually an identical server where we were able to install ImageMagick with no issues. It's running exactly the same version of php. Used the following steps to install, but it just won't seem to work on this server. ImageMagick itself is installed but php won't load the e...