windows-server-2008

web site certificate issue

Hello everyone, I am working on IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64. I want to know if I apply for a certifcate from Verisign, is the certificate bind to domain name or bind to computer? Any comments to my 2 concerns below? More details, if the certificate is bound to computer other than domain name, then if the computer ha...

Unable to read Office 2007 doc props using x86 dsofile.dll on x64 system

We have a 32-bit .NET application which makes use of the 32-bit version of DSOFile.dll 2.1 to read common properties from Office documents. This works on 32-bit versions of Windows, for both Office 2003 and Office 2007 documents. We are now examining our application’s behaviour in a 64-bit environment, and specifically in 64-bit Windows ...

Windows 2008 Task Scheduler Problem

I've created simple .NET 2.0 Console application. Reads DB, sends emails and writes result to subfolder named "logs" as a .TXT file. Application works when i run it manually. But task scheduler can not able to run it. When i looked the history i saw "Task Scheduler successfully finished "{46794881-039f-4c37-8c5b-af70def503ce}" instanc...

SharePoint page edit issue

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and I am using publishing portal template. I am using SharePoint Designer 2007 to design pages. When I open the default.aspx under Pages sub-folder of a site, there are two options -- Edit in Browser and Edit Page Layout. I want to know wha...

SQL Server backup issue

Hello everyone, I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on Windows Server 2008 x64. I want to run daily job at mid-night every day to make full backup of database. Any reference document to follow for a newbie of this topic? thanks in advance, George ...

Windows Server 2008 and com objects

Hi, im moving a Dll (built in c++) from windows 2000 server to a 2008 server but im have some trouble to register it. In 2000 all you normaly have to do is a "regsrv32 name.dll" but this will not work in 2008 because you get a pointer error, iv also tried to use "gacutil /i name.dll" because someone told me this might work, but it didnt....

Delphi compatibility with Windows 2008 Server 64 bit

I have a plan to install my application which is compiled using RAD2010 in Vista 32 bit dev. environment, in a win 2008 server 64 bit. I use Firebird 2.0 (32 bit) as database server. Is there any issue? Or it should run without any problem? ...

Using CLR 4.0 Background GC on a Server

We're building a MMO server, highly optimized for latency. So, with the CLR 4.0 and with introduced new workstation GC, is it now possible to use Background Garbage collection on a Windows Server? ...

permission issue when editing a page using SharePoint Designer

Hello everyone, I am using Search Server 2008 based on SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have tried the search function by using IE to access address http://, and everything is fine with search functions (e.g. I can search page content by keywords). Now I want to use SharePoint Designer to customi...

sharepoint log?

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I want to know how to find error logs when I met with something wrong? For example, when I am using SharePoint Designer 2007 to import a list to a web page by using Data View -> Insert Dataview, there is error message like this -- "The ser...

sharepoint list permission issue

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am using publishing portal template. I am creating a list with the default "Title" column -- Title (linked to item). I want to make anonymous users to be able to view list content and also wants anonymous users to be able to click the Ti...

How to create a DCOM server on a specific windows session?

Hello, My questions regards DCOM servers and windows sessions: I have a windows service, running in win 2008 platform. on some scenarios, this service has to show some UI (Open a window). Despite the ugly design , it is the service it self that has to trigger the window opening. In order to do so, i have a DCOM server that is created ...

Windows 7 vs. Windows Server 2008 for a development machine

hi, I finally got some time on my hand to upgrade my main dev. machine from Windows XP SP3. Right now I have licenses to both Windows 7 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition. I mainly do web development (ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, RIAs .. etc) Which is a better option for a 24/7 active development machine ? ...

how to change SharePoint search page URL?

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am using publishing portal template. By default, the search page is using results.aspx as the search result page. I want to change results.aspx to another page (my custom search page to show results, e.g. customsearchresults.aspx), how t...

VisualStudio C# x64, why AddReference option, .NET tab points to x86 DLL instead of x64?

I want to create an x64 application. When I want to add a reference for example to system.data in window AddReference under tab .NET I see only x86 DLLs, and I need 64 bit versions. I have Windows Server 2008 x64 with Visual Studio 2008. I created a project and I set x64 under Configuration Manager. What can I do to force Visual Stud...

sgen.exe x64 .net c# fails with "assembly with an incorrect format"

I have ws2008 x64 with vs2008. When I set my vs to x64 (because I have 64bit dlls) and run compilation sgen says that An attempt was made to load an assembly with an incorrect format VS takse sgen from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\ and I think that it should take it from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows...

Sink on IIS SMTP Windows Server 2008 / 2008R2

I need help. I wrote simple sink by sample in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998610.aspx. On IIS Smtp Windows server 2003 it work fine. But on IIS Smtp Windows Server 2008 or 2008R2 it don't work. I try other sample from Internet. None of them don't work on IIS Smtp Windows Server 2008 / 2008R2. Any idea? ...

Microsoft Search Server programming issue

Hello everyone, I am using Microsoft Search Server 2008 based on SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I want to know whether there are any ways (some open API or web services or some hacking ways) to retrieved the crawled page content? The crawl source is web site. thanks in advance, George ...

How to redirect in ASP.NET based on URL?

How can I redirect user based on host in aspx page? For example, I want redirect user to localhost99.com if url is host22.com and redirect to host22.com if url is localhost99.com I tried out something like this: protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (Request.ServerVariables["SCRIPT_NAME"] + "?" +...

How to check if process is still running on Windows server 2008?

We have two services: one service is 32-bit (process1) and the other is 64-bit (process2). We have code that process1 is using to check if process2 is running: HANDLE hProcess; RESET_WIN_ERRNO; hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, FALSE, ProcessId); if (hProcess == NULL) { os_SetWinErr(err_code); return FALS...