link textI want to use the TIFF IFilter built in to Windows 2008 Server R2 with Full-Text search in SQL Server 2008... also R2. I have installed the filter through server manager and updated the "Force TIFF IFilter to perform OCR for every page in a TIFF document" Local Group Policy setting in Computer Configuration -> Administrative Te...
Normally, I use App_Offline.htm for taking the site offline. But occasionally, when I do that, the site just hangs (like in: browsers wait forever, server gives no response at all). This seems to happen on an updateable site when I change something, like a control and afterward, when it doesn't go quick enough (site hangs), I place App_O...
Is it really to add Analysys Services for existing instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express? ...
I spawn a worker thread in an ASP.NET application running on Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.5 The first thing this worker thread does is sleep for N seconds, and then it does its real work. During the sleep, a catch a ThreadAbortException. Can you explain this behavior, and bonus points of you point me to any IIS/ASP.NET settings that c...
Hi all I have a sharepoint site hosted on windows server 2008 r2 and iis7. the sharepoint site is hosted on port 80. when I browse the site by typing the IP of the machine I receive a login window asking for credentials to connect the Machine. after providing credentials another login window asks for credentials to connect to the shar...
I am getting the following error when invooking the follwoing code. if (Directory.Exists(Destination)) { Ent.Installer.Tasks.ShellOperations.ShellCommand sc = new Ent.Installer.Tasks.ShellOperations.ShellCommand( "mklink", "/D \"" + Source + "\" \"" + Destination + "\""); result = (bool)sc.Execute...
Hi, I have an ASP.NET web application (.NET 4.0) that has a few pages, one page with a silverlight application in it. When I debug locally, the silverlight app works fine. When I deploy to my web server (Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5), the silverlight app will not display. I get an exception in Application_Error saying the following...
I'm wanting to scan files a user uploads to our websites on the server-side. I'd prefer it to be something we can run on-demand that doesn't have to be running all the time on the server. What solutions are available for Windows Server 2008 R2? Which products specifically would you recommend? ...
The Win32_Printer class returns a field per printer called Default (a boolean value). This works locally and accurately returns the Default printer. However when remotely connecting in with WMI, it always returns false. I thought it could depend on the user with which you did the remote WMI query. However, that's not the case (I tried i...
I am going to be moving all my websites to a Windows Web Server 2008 R2 machine. I have installed it in a virtual machine to test that my websites work with it. I have noticied that there is a program called Web Platform Installer. I have used it to install a few sites but I was just thinking is it a security risk using this? Would it b...
I've upgraded our project from being a website to a web app and imported to VS2k10. I've added the following references: System.Web.Abstractions System.Web.MVC System.Web.Routing ... Changed target framework to 4.0... Added a controller 'HomeController.cs'... This now works in the development server but NOT in IIS 7.0 Windows Serv...
I have been trying to configure a small website on a Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7. Unfortunately, when trying to load the website I keep getting the error: Server Error 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. The permissions on the website folder include read, write, and execute for user ASP.NET v4.0. I ev...
I think I might have incorrectly configured an ftp site (it's my first time setting one of these up) in IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, but I'm not sure where I've gone wrong. The error that I keep getting is "User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible." This happens when I: Open up a Windows command prompt. Type ftp localhos...
I have the following piece of code that works well in windows server 2003. It writes to the Application Event Log in EventViwer. The same code doesnt work in Windows 2008 The aplication crashes.Request to help on how to write to event log in Windows Server 2008. if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MyServiceLog")) { E...
I have an exchange 2010 server running on Windows 2008 R2, I also have a remote webserver running Windows 2003 with multiple sites on it (all asp.net mvc 2 sites). I setup a Transport in exchange and all the websites on my remote web server can send email no problem to anyone in the exchange server and to any external domain. Now for my...
I have a homemade bootstrapper (call it SetUp.exe) that checks whether .NET 3.5 is installed on the target machine, and, if not, launches the installation by running dotnetfx35.exe. Fine. This works for all cases that I need EXCEPT for Windows 2008 Server R2. On this OS, the .NET installer does not install/enable .NET 3.5. Instead it...
Recently I stumbled upon a problem that involves moving asp classic sites from a w2k3 server to a w2k8 64 environment. It involved getting indexing services to work with asp classic. I searched every where tried many solutions and they all failed. The problem: running a 64bit indexing service on a 32bit application pool (for asp classi...
Hi I need to start an elevated interactive program on startup and prevent UAC to pop-up that runs as a tray icon. I want the program to start regardless to which user logs on. I tried configuring the task scheduler but when running the task as SYSTEM the program is not run interactively. I cannot run it as a specific user as the admin ...
I'm moving to a new TFS server on a 64 bit machine (Windows Server 2008 R2). My problem is that now some solution (WinForms with another class library projects) are failing. In my first attempt, I tried Release|Any CPU in the Process Tab of the Build definition Window, but with this configuration my WinForms project gets skipped. Then ...
Is there a complete instruction for deploying an asp.net application on windows server 2008 r2? I've got to send some instructions to admins who are not experienced with using Win/IIS, but I'm not willing to write it myself, because I'm not good with server administration too. I've googled the topic for a number of times, but didn't find...