I'm setting up a dedicated SQL Server 2005 box on Windows Server 2008 this week, and would like to pare it down to be as barebones as possible while still being fully functional. To that end, the "Server Core" option sounds appealing, but I'm not clear about whether or not I can run SQL Server on that SKU. Several services are addresse...
How many folk are doing this and what are your motivations for doing so? I converted because I wanted to run Hyper-V so I could build and test on 64 bit guest OS VM's. In general the experience has been pretty good, I've learned a heap about managing a 2008 environment. I've also been pretty lucky in that all of the drivers for my Dell T...
I have a web server and I am currently paying for SVN hosting at a company that specializes in hosting svn. I am thinking of just installing SVN on my dedicated server, are there any security implications of this? ...
As part of our databuild run a 3rd party program (3D Studio Max) to export a number of assets. Unfortunately if a user is not currently logged in, or the machine is locked, then Max does not run correctly. This can be solved for freshly booted machines by using a method such as TweakUI for automatic login. However when a user connects v...
I'm having an amazing amount of trouble starting and stopping a service on my remote server from my msbuild script. SC.EXE and the ServiceController MSBuild task don't provide switches to allow a username/password so they won't authenticate, so I'm using RemoteService.exe from www.intelliadmin.com -Authenticating with \xx.xx.xx.xxx -Au...
I recently printed out Jeff Atwood's Understanding The Hardware blog post and plan on taking it to Fry's Electronics and saying to them "Give me all the parts on these sheets so I can put this together." However, I'm going to be installing 64bit Windows Server 2008 on this machine so before I get all the parts: Will all this hardware be...
Here's an interesting problem. On a recently installed Server 2008 64bit I opened IE and through the Tools -> Options I changed the homepage to iGoogle.com. Clicked okay and then clicked the homepage button. IE crashes. Now you'd think that I could just remove iGoogle as the homepage but when I open IE it immediately goes to that page a...
I'm evaluating Server 2008. My C++ executable is getting this error. I've seen this error on MSDN that seems to have required a hot-fix for several previous OSes. Anyone else seen this? I get the same results for the 32 & 64 bit OS. Code snippet: HRESULT GroupStart([in] short iClientId, [in] VARIANT GroupDataArray, [out] short* pGr...
Is there a reliable way to detect whether or not WinHelp is installed on Windows Vista or newer versions of Windows? If possible, I'd like a solution that's not specific to any particular version of Windows. I've posted this question to other message boards and got back answers regarding the size of Winhlp32.exe before and after install...
Is there anyone out there who has Windows Server 2008 virtual hosting under $75/mo? ...
When I installed Windows Server 2008 I didn't have the (activation) key. Now that I have it I can't find where to enter it. Anybody know? ...
I know the standard answer is No. However hear out the reasons for wanting it, and then we'll go for whether it is possible to achieve the same effect as ReadyBoost via either enabling (and installing) ReadyBoost or using third party software. Reasons for using Widows Server 2008 as a development environment on a laptop: 64-Bit, so yo...
I have just installed a build server with a 64 bit windows server 2008 for continuous integration. The reason I choose a 64 bit server was to have more than ~3Gb of RAM. I had hopes that this machine would provide blazing fast builds. Unfortunately, the result are lacking greatly to say the least. My desktop provides faster builds tha...
I'm running Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V. I've created a virtual machine with Vista 64bit and installed it. I can't get the Vista virtual machine to see the network adapter. I've set-up an external network on the Virtual Network Manager (Hyper-V) and associated that with the virtual machine (Vista). I've also tried using a Legacy Netw...
Is it doable to set up a non-domain-based (standalone) Windows Server 2008 as an SSTP VPN (Secure Socket Layer Tunneling Protocol VPN)? I'd like to enable remote users to access a network via SSL-based VPN (currently using PPTP) by making an SSTP VPN connection via a Win2k8 server. Most of the docs seem to include running in an AD doma...
Is there a tool or programmatic way to install an SSL cert to the default website in iis 6 and 7? Ideally I am looking for something that can be done via unmanaged code or .net managed code. ...
I installed a ASP.Net website on a Windows 2008 server, which is by default using IIS7. The website seems to work fine, but the post backs on my forms do not work. After a few hours of debugging, I realized that when I manually try to hit the WebResource.axd file in my browser (e.g. I type http://www.domain.com/WebResource.axd in the a...
Whilst similar questions exist, I couldn't find any which quite match my request. I'm looking for hosting for some personal .NET projects which for various reasons I do not want to host on our servers at work. I need to be able to host multiple sites and for that reason I'm thinking of a VPS with RDP access for the time being - don't fa...
I have a .NET application that is meant to be run on a local PC and started from a file share on the LAN. It works fine on 32 bit Windows XP and Vista workstations. But it fails with a System.InvalidOperationException on 64 bit Windows Server 2008. It runs fine locally on all three configurations. What could be the cause? .NET 2.0 i...
Many, if not all, of my old VC++ 6.0 MFC apps don't work in Vista and Server 2008. I had that migration was a problem, but now it's my problem :( How do I go about making these things work? Is that possible? I've searched, but is there some repository of knowledge on this subject? edit: Compatibility mode seems to work. ...