Preventing illegal file and Folder name creation on a Windows 2003/2008 file server is the goal. We know from articles like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62771/how-check-if-given-string-is-legal-allowed-file-name-under-windows that for some reason the file system allows creation of illegal file/folder chacters and paths that exceed ...
I have a Wix installer which should be allowed to run on Windows Server 2008 but not on Vista. According to Microsoft's Operating System Properties page, this is not possible using the parameters they provide for this purpose (VersionNT and WindowsBuild). Has anyone solved this problem or know how to solve it? Thanks! ...
Hello All, I am using IIS 7 on Server 2008. I just tried migrating my app from an older platform - everything works fine, except the email feature. This is my config: < mailSettings > < smtp from="[email protected]" deliveryMethod="Network" > < network host="mail.xyz.com" port="25" userName="[email protected]" password="12...
Hello I have Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I need on system start up sync time. I'm user in administrators group. I've tried to add task to schedule. I give the task my account rights, but it not helps. It says that access denied. I need to run .bat file or w32tm /resync. But if I run the .bat file with context menu "Run as administrat...
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine acting as Domain Controller for a test domain and I have installed MSMQ on this server including the "Message Queue Server", "Directory Services Integration" and "Message Queueing Triggers" features. I've also installed MSMQ onto a second machine in the domain that is running Server 2003. The insta...
I get an access denied error when I try to attach to w3wp.exe from Visual Studio 2008 on Server 2008 64-bit, even though I have the application pool set to run as my own unprivileged user. On Server 2003 I was able to do this. Something weird is going on because when I run Process Explorer as myself I can't see any detailed process inf...
It seems that every time Windows auto-installs security updates, all of our secure sites return "connection was reset..." messages. After I remove and reapply new self-signed SSL certificates, the sites are back up and running. All of our sites with Verisign or Network Solutions certs are never affected by these updates. 2 questions: ...
I'm trying to port our software installer which currently supports Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 to a Windows 2008 environment. Currently, the installer gets an error which reads "Error 1606. Could not access network location %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot." %SystemDrive% is without a doubt C:\, and C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ has the correct a...
I've been trying to disable DEP on my windows 2008 dev box and have not succeeded. I've tried: System Properties->Performance Options->Data Execution Prevention->Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only (still happens) System Properties->Performance Options->Data Execution Prevention->Turn on DEP for all programs...
I have a web server hosting an HTTP chat application that works with long-polling. This means a client browser "polls" for new info and the server does not respond until there is info to send back, so the HTTP connection is left open for a long time, up to a minute. My question is how many of these connections the server can handle ope...
First off, I don't know if this is possible, but let me describe my scenario. I have a set of WCF services, a SQL Server 2008 Database all running on Windows Server 2008. All of this works fine when I am connected to my LAN, however I am going to be using this box for a demo, and I would like to make it work in standalone mode (ie, not ...
We recently moved a file share machine that runs on 2008 hyper-v to our data center from our local network and now it is periodically extremely slow. The networks are connected via wide ethernet. Pinging the server returns in less than 1ms and tracert shows only 1 hop again at less than 1ms. Other services provided from that locatio...
My ASP, classic ASP application is giving me a sever error on a Windows 2008 Server. It works fine on Windows 2003 server. The error is a 500 internal server error. Does CDO not work on Windows 2008? EDIT THe error is: The transport failed to connect to the server. Here is my mail function: function SendMail(mailFrom, mailTo, mailSub...
We are deploying two server-based applications, one WCF, and one a Winform that processes a lot of network traffic (like a custom-made WCF). Generally speaking, would upgrading from Server 2008 to Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 offer these apps potential significant performance benefits? I'm particularly interested, as I've heard great thi...
I'm trying to run my Silverlight tests via a command line (eventually MSBuild) working from this example. It all works fine on my XP Box but on Build Machine (Windows Server 2008) the IE window opens, then a second window opens with the Silverlight page in it. That page then shows the "Download Silverlight" picture and link. If I copy t...
Hi, What is the Maximum memory size limit for ASP.NET application on windows 2008 64bit? Thanks, Guy Bertental ...
Hi! We're in the process of moving our SQL Server to it's own machine, but I'm having issues getting transactions through MSDTC to work. Here is the error message ASP.Net is generating for me: The transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions I have tried googling around for this, but haven't m...
Hi, I want to analyze memory leak in my ASP.NET application, How can I dump memory in windows 2008 64bit server? thanks, Guy Bertental ...
I am trying to open a web page with a Silverlight App from a batch file on a Windows Server 2008 box. If I put this in the batch file: start iexplore http://www.google.com The google page shows. If I put this in the batch file (where TestPage has a Silverlight Application): start iexplore http://www.mysite.com/Configure/TestPage.ht...
I always used to check the windows versions by their major/minor build numbers. Strangely enough, Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, both return the same major/minor version number combination. Confirm this by typing ver into a command prompt ...