windows-server-2003

IIS log files and load balancer?

We host our ASP.NET applications on two web servers (Server 2003, IIS 6) that reside behind a hardware load balancer. When I look at the IIS logs, the c-ip value in the IIS (v6) logs are ALWAYS the IP address of the load balancer. I noticed in the http headers, there is an X-Forwarded-For header that appears to have the requesting IP add...

How Do I Find Out Which Apps Are Using the Most Resources On Web Server (Win2003)

I have a lot of ASP.NET apps / websites on my server (Some custom built and some open source). I was wondering if there was a free (Or built into Win2003) way of finding out which applications use the most resources throughout the day? Sort of a breakdown of CPU(s) & Memory... As I have a suspicion one of the open source apps is hoggin...

How can I get a drive list from a batch file?

I'm trying to get a list of all my mapped drives for a system upgrade and would like to get this info via a batch file. How can I do this? For Bonus points: How can I script the mapping of these drives on the new server? ...

IIS authentication challenge even with Anony turned on.. why?

I have a windows 2003 server (WEb edition) which has .net 3.5 sp1 installed on it. I've got a half dozen websites, all of which are challenging me for a username and password. If I supply a domain username, I get in fine... However, I have the websites set to Allow anony access. The website files/folders all have the appropriate IUSR s...

Intermittent "Division by zero" error in classic ASP pages. HELP!

This is a strange one. A web application which runs fine on Windows Server 2000, experiences intermittent errors on Windows Server 2003 R2. By intermittent, I mean myself and 2 testers can find the error within 5 minutes of navigating around the web application. The error is always "Division by zero" - 800a000b The most common line of ...

ActivePDF Toolkit in Windows Server 2003 x64

I've recently migrated my app to a 64bit OS (from 32bit Win2k3) and am finding that one dependency - ActivePDF simply won't run under x64. I'm not sure if its by design, or just that it hasn't been tested for 64 bit operation. Is there anyway to get this to run under 32bit mode somehow? ...

How would I run a java process as a Windows Server 2003 service?

I'm looking for the best way to run a java app as a Windows Server 2003 service. What are my options, and what's the basic general process for going about doing this? Thanks much. ...

Installing IIS on windows 2003 without the windows CD

Ihave a server that I need to install IIS on - however I don't have the windows 2003 CD available. It prompts me to insert the CD labeled "Service Pack 2 CD-ROM" - I've downloaded the service pack and it's not able to find the file it needs in there. How can I get IIS to install w/o the windows CD? ...

reference Windows Media Encoder library error

Hello everyone, On Windows Vista/XP, my code works fine. But on Windows Server 2003 x64 edition, after installed x64 version Windows Media Encoder 9 and Windows Media Encoder 9 SDK, in project reference, I need to add reference (in COM Tab) to Windows Media Encoder library, but I cannot find the Windows Media Encoder library on Windows ...

Can we make IS / ixsso.Query perform an AND query by default?

We are using the ixsso.Query object to access an indexing service catalogue through a ColdFusion script. We are currently having issues with structuring the query. The website has a single field free text input and assumes the user is entering the text in an unstructured form. We need to perform queries that ‘AND’ all the inputted keywo...

The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

When I try my program on my win2k8 machine it runs fine but on win 2k3 it gives me this error that error message here's the code that' generating the error WebClient wc = new WebClient(); wc.DownloadFile("ftp://ftp.website.com/sample.zip"); there's the weird part. if i disable the firewall on the server completely. the error goes aw...

error to start Windows Media Encoder

Hello everyone, I am using the following code snippet to run on Windows Server 2003 x64 edition. I met with the following error when invoking encoder.start method. I am using Windows Media Encoder 9. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException 0xC00D1B67 My code snippet is below, does anyone have any ideas what is wrong? IWMEncSo...

How to detect Media Services are installed on Windows server 2003?

I've been trying to find some information on this. So far I've been using the version Key presence to do it, is there a better way ? ...

Dual booting Windows 2k3 Server and Linux MBR

I have Windows Server 2003 and Linux installed on one hard drive [on separate partitions]. My first partition is the linux boot partition, and maintains Grub. When I boot the Windows partition and shutdown W2k3 keeps modifying the MBR to boot directly, and only to the Windows partition. How do I prevent this behavior? I rather like using...

Performance degradation of CreateFile API

Hi, I have an application that is restoring lots of data from a library. We are using Windows server 2003. As the process progresses we are seeing performance degradation. I added some performance counters for 4 of my major tasks, Create file, Read from library, WriteData, Close file. We are restoring millions of files. What I observed ...

Command prompt not working after installing TortoiseSVN

I have just installed that latest stable release of TortoiseSVN on Windows Server 2003 and restarted the server. I can create a new repository using the right-click menu in windows explorer but using "svn" anything from the command prompt returns 'svn' is not a recognised internal or external command When I have installed TortoiseSVN p...

How do I enable svn commands from any directory?

I have recently installed SVN on Windows Server 2003. I can execute svn commands in the command prompt if I am in the bin directory (program files\subversion\bin). But trying to execute commands in any other directory results in 'svn' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file Where am I going ...

NHibernate, MySQL, Windows Server 2003 -- connection problems

We're using MySQL (5.0.x) on Windows, in an ASP.NET MVC app. Recently, we started using NHibernate in a lot of places, and it works great in the ASP.NET app. On Vista and Windows Server 2008, it still works great everywhere. We've also got a couple command-line tools that use the same codebase, and they work everywhere except on our W...

Can SMTP Errors be the Developer's fault?

I have an error message getting returned to me which would appear to be something wrong with the Exchange set up. Is there a possibility that I'm doing something wrong? I have no idea where to to start to track this down: The following recipient(s) cannot be reached: Customer Service Account on 6/3/2009 11:00 AM There was a...

error running asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 together

So here is the error that I am trying to help a friend with (I don't think I would have tried this). He has a legacy Asp.net 1.1 application. He has already added some ASP.NET 2.0 features to his application. His app is running on a Windows 2003 server. He has the main application running in a 1.1 app pool. In one of the sub folder...