windows-server-2008

A local error has occurred while connecting to AD in Windows 2008 server

There's Active directory on windows 2000 advance server, I have a web server on Windows 2008 server Enterprise Edition, the following code works fine in Winsows 2003 server but when I installed Win 2008 server, it gives me the following error, the webserver is not subdomain of the AD server. but they have the same range IP address. A l...

Exception converting Office files to PDF using ABCpdf.NET onWindows Server 2008

Has anyone delt with this exception from ABCpdf? We're running on Server 2008 and only have issues converting Office files (Word and Excel). This all worked well on Server 2003. Because we're only having issues with Office files I wonder if it's related to the XPS support on Server 2008? The code that calls into this function is runni...

Run application as system account in Windows Server 2008

How do I run an application as local\system account in Windows Server 2008 ? For earlier OS version, I used to type "at 1:23 /interactive cmd.exe" for example. I also tried to create a scheduled task, which starts the application, but didn't manage to bring it in interactive mode. Thanks. ...

cryptoapi windows 7 support

Hello Microsoft has introduced cryptography next generation (CNG) from Vista and server 2008 onwards. But my question is to know whether microsoft supports the old cryptoAPI(say for eg. in windows 2003 and windows xp, - crypt32.dll) in windows 7 and server 2008. Thanks Raj ...

ASP.NET Chart Control errors in Event Viewer

Hi, I have been using the ASP.NET chart controls for a while on win2k3 (32bit) setups without any issue but have noticed that on our new win2k8 (64bit) box I am getting a warning message showing up in the event viewer from the chart control. In my web.config file I have the following tag telling the Chart Control where I can store the ...

What is the best way to optimize a Windows Server 2008 box running IIS7 to serve only static files?

I would like to have our web applications pull static content (css, js, images) from a static file server running Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. What sort of optimizations would you make to the server for this single purpose? (Machine.config changes? Web.config changes? Special IIS7 setup or modules? What?) ...

How do I connect to my windows server 2008 hosted on a virtual box?

Hello! I've hosted Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on a virtualbox and set up IIS7 with ASP.NET. Now I wonder what I have to do to be able to connect to the virtualbox from the computer I'm running the virtualbox on? I tried entering the ip supplied by ipconfig from inside the box; 10.0.2.15 which doesn't seem to work, like so "http:/...

Can’t see win2k8 server by hostname, but can see it by IP

We have set up a Windows 2008 server with MS SQL 2005 (default instance), if we try to connect using the MS SQL Server Management Studio using the server hostname it is failing. if we use localhost or it's IP it is working. We have added the server hostname to the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc) but this didn't solve the p...

How come redirect isn't working in IIS 7 ? Http > Https

Hi, I am using Server 2008 with IIS7 and have confirmed the HttpRedirectionModule is installed. But when I define a redirect for websitexxx.com as https://websitexxx.com I get Forbidden, access denied 403 error? I can access the https://website.com site just fine. Does this just not work or what? Thank you, James ...

ACT Professional for Windows-Memory leak?

I have an ACT! professional for Windows V11.1, with the latest SQL service pack (SP3) and have an apparent memory leak on the server. After a restart the ACT! SQL instance (SQLSERVR) consumes almost all the available memory on the server, we have added more memory to the server (it is running under Hyper-V) but it continues to consume ...

How to share windows registry on remote machine?

Hello, Is it possible to share windows registry on remote machine? Or we can keep in synch two machines windows registry. Please help.. Kartik ...

StreamReader "Could not find a part of the path" issue while debugging

I'm attempt to debug a program I wrote, but I'm running into a problem with the StreamReader function. I'm specifically getting a Could not find a part of the path issue while debugging when it hits this function. Being that I was in the debugger, I checked the variable to make sure the path was correct and that it resolved to a valid ...

VS2008 Remote Debugging problems from 32-bit Windows XP client to 64-bit Windows 2008 Server

We are having an issue with remote dedubbing using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 on a 32 bit XP client machine and a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine on Hyper-V. When we debug the web project locally we can correctly see the modules loaded in the modules window (Ctrl + Alt + U) with the relevant symbols. When we try and debug ...

Windows Server 2008 Antivirus Software with an API

I'm looking for an Antivirus package that is compliant with Windows Server 2008. That's not the hard part. What I need is an API layer on the Antivirus that i can call from managed .net code. For example: I am developing an Asp.Net (C#) website that allows users to upload files to the web server which the web site resides on. We have fu...

remote debug in Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor on Windows Server 2008 x64 takes years to refresh process list

When I remotely "Attach to Process" in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to WS2008 (x64) computer running remote debugging monitor (both RTM and SP1), I see a huge number (30+) of entries saying: <username> connected Both TCP and authenticated mode are affected. I think there is an entry per unique process name. Each connection attempt takes se...

.NET Interop app broken if Windows version >= Server2008

We have a largish 32-bit MFC/COM app that calls a .NET dll using interop. It works fine on 2k(server & client), XP, & Win2k3. We've been testing it on Server 2008 & Win7 & it hangs with exception 0xc0000005 in ntdll.dll. After attempting to run it from the menu in the COM app, when we close the COM app it hangs as well. Does anyone kno...

How do you ensure windows applications and windows services access the same ProgramData on Win2008 x64?

I have a windows forms application that reads and updates an XML file with information which a windows service must act on. This has been working on Windows Server 2003, XP and Vista (x32) for some time. Now, when installed on Windows Server 2008 x64, strange things have started happening, thanks I assume to the User "VirtualStore" fol...

configure IIS 7.0 meta database issue

Hello everyone, I am using IIS 7.0 + Windows Server 2008. Anyone has experience to configure the Timer_MinBytesPerSecond configuration items -- either programmatically or manually is fine? I also want to know how to check the current values for Timer_MinBytesPerSecond configuration items (either programmatically or manually is fine)? A...

Installing Moodle using XAMPP on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition

Hi, I am trying to install Moodle 1.9 using XAMPP on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition. I can initially access the install.php installer script fine but after I progress past the third page the webpage times out. If I go to http://localhost/, no webpage is downloaded and the browser just times out. I ...

Sharepoint 2007 on Windows 2008

I wanted to get some feedback about the problems we might face if we deploy Sharepoint 2007 on Windows 2008 instead on windows 2003 ...