windows-server-2003

Troubleshooting Intermittent Failures on Web Applications (ASP.NET)

Got reports of a web app going down twice in three weeks. Need to do some root cause analysis. works fine after a reboot. I'm not really an expert in this field. It is hosted on IIS and Windows 2003. There is nothing interesting in the event viewer, and IIS logs just show lots of successful GET operations. There is nothing interesting ...

Using a custom URL rewriter, IIS6, and urls with .htm, .html, etc

I have a custom site I'm building with automatic url rewriting using a custom engine. The rewriting works fine as long as the page url doesn't end in somehting like .htm or .html. For these pages it goes directly to the iis 404 page instead of hitting my rewriting engine first. I have the * wildcard handler in the "Home Directory" sec...

ASP.NET MVC and .NET 3.5 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and IIS

I am writing a website for a client who says their servers run the following: "Windows 2003 with the latest IIS". What do I need to do to get them ready for hosting my ASP.NET MVC website built with .NET 3.5SP1? ...

Any known issues with msxml3.dll on Windows 2003?

I'm trying to migrate a VB6 business object, which uses RDS to be accessed, from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003 server environment. I've made no changes to the app, nor the calling app, but I am getting an error code 440 Automation Error when the code execution reaches the point of parsing the XML data that the object is supposed to p...

Issues with FastCGI and links containing index.php? versus index.php

On a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and FastCGI with an ExpressionEngine-powered website, I've encountered an issue where links containing index.php fail unless a question mark is added. The basic issue is that if a link points to "index.php/archive/article", the page fails to load (see below) but it will work when "index.php?/arc...

Php on IIS6

I'm getting 401.1 errors when trying to run a .php file on windows 2003/IIS6 I've been all over the web, given Everyone Full perms on the folder containing the file as well as the file... Nothing. What am I missing? ...

How to view Windows Event Log remotely with limited privileges

To debug some code, I would like to view the Windows event log of a remote machine (target is Windows2003). With mmc.exe I can add the event log for a remote machine, but only if I have sufficient permissions. For this remote machine, they do not want to give me permissions to log in remotely (or admin privileges for that matter). Is ...

IIS 6 - sort websites by name

In IIS 6 on a Server 2003 box, when I view the list of websites, it doesn't list them in alphabetical order. I'm assuming that it sorts them on their website ID. I have one server that won't be getting upgraded to 2008 for a while and it hosts about 40 websites. It has become quite cumbersome for me to look through the list to find ...

PHP warnings cause script to halt on IIS running FastCGI

We are migrating to a new server running Windows 2003 and IIS 6. When my PHP code runs, it has a warning on a particular line (which I'm expecting at the moment but will fix shortly). However, when it hits the warning, it immediately halts processing and returns a 500 error in the HTTP header. Normally, I would expect PHP to output the w...

SQL Server 2000 intermittent connection exceptions on production server - specific environment problem?

We've been having intermittent problems causing users to be forcibly logged out of out application. Our set-up is ASP.Net/C# web application on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with SQL Server 2000 on the back end. We've recently performed a major product upgrade on our client's VMWare server (we have a guest instance dedicated to u...

Mysterious process - RunSilent - error on Windows Server 2003

We are setting up production servers (Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit) for a web application that uses the Dundas Maps for ASP.Net component. After installation we receive the following error: "RunSilent has encountered a problem and needs to close." The question is, what on earth is RunSilent? A google search gets nothing of interest b...

Windows 2003 Performance Alerts Threshold

I have an app that has quite a bit of instrumentation via the Performance Monitor. The Performance Alerts are working fine, but I have a requirement for an alert threshold that I can't seem to figure out. I do not want to write a custom app to make it happen. There is a counter that I need to alert on when the value == zero over a 60 mi...

SMTP, Anonymous Relay, and Windows 2003

Assumption: this is an internal web server Is there anything special you have to do to get Windows 2003 to act as an anonymous SMTP relay server? I have configured many Windows 2000 servers to do this in the past and never had an issue. I remember in Windows 2003 Microsoft went a little strong with the security... So is there any spec...

Logoff script to change user

Using Windows 2003, I'm look for a way to create a "logoff script" that will continue with the current logoff then immediately login another user. So, "UserA" logs off. Script fires to login "UserB". This is part of an application upgrade for a computer where we have written the 'shell'; similar to a kiosk application. For the upgr...

Add tabs to object properties in an mmc

I'm trying to give users at my helpdesk the ability to view and edit Exchange ExtensionAttributes (specifically 2 and 14). Ideally, I would do this by adding a tab in the "Active Directory Users and Computers" mmc snap-in that would have the information on there. I know it's possible to add tabs - the acctinfo.dll in the resource kit do...

Client Components for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 won't install due to Native Client Error

So I got a 64 bit virtual machine running x64 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with plesk from blacknight.ie. I installed all the updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com apart from group policy, terminal services and windows search. I then tried installing SQL 2005 x64 Enterprise. I tell it to install everything including all the cl...

Configuring Ruby On Rails App in a subdirectory under Apache

I've got apache2.2 on windows. I'm trying to serve both subversion (/svn) and redmine (/redmine). I have svn running fine with this config: <Location /svn> DAV svn SVNParentPath C:/svn_repository ... </Location> This is working great--my svn users can hit http://mybox/svn just fine. Now I want to add another directory for a rai...

Problems develop on 64-bit Windows 2003 Server

Going to try and run VS 2008 Pro on a machine running Windows 2003 Server x64. Are there any debugging concerns? ...

Load balancing error with WCF service - NLB

UPDATE 3: I created a Visual Studio 2008 test project and tried to create a service reference to shared site WCF service reference and received the following error: There was an error downloading 'http://apps.mydomain/MyService.svc'. The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request. Metadata contains a reference that cann...

Find a "native" dll which calculates a MD5/SHA1 hash in windows 2003 server

Hi, Does anyone know if there exist a dll in windows (2003 server) which I can call to calculate a MD5/SHA1 hash for a string? I've written a .dll in C# that do this but I'm not allowed to use this because of company regulations for our servers. /Ausgar ...