windows-server-2008

Is Sql Server Express edition 2005 64 bit supported on Windows Server 2008 64 bit?

Couldn't find any reference to this online. Does any one know? ...

Request timed out when very low traffic over Christmas Holiday week

Over this past Christmas holiday week, when the website I work on was experiencing very low traffic, we saw several Request timed out exceptions (one on each day >> 12/26, 12/28, 12/29, and 12/30) on several pages that require user authentication. We rarely saw Request timed out exceptions prior to this very low traffic week. It is ...

Why is my VB6 application manifest ignored on 64bit machines ?

Hi I have the following manifest embedded in a VB6 application. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="ExeName" type="win32"/> <description>elevate execution level</descr...

cannot edit permission for a folder

Hello everyone, I am using Windows Server 2008 x64. I login using administrator. I want to add a new user for read/write access for a folder under c:\windows\system32. I tried to select folder (right click), then select Property -> Security -> Edit under Security Tab, the Add button is greyed out. Why? Any programming based or other qui...

Unsupported rpcns4.dll messages in VS 2008 on windows server 2008

I've been developing a small in house application in C++ to access data from a vendor through a windows only API. I've developed this application in visual studio 2008 on windows XP (actually in a windows XP VM but whatever) and in testing on this system it runs fine. Now I'm deploying to a windows server 2008 standard system, and if I r...

Creating roaming user profiles programmatically on Windows 2008

Problem: Logon and load profile via LoadUserProfile API for a roaming user is not creating proper profile. This only happens under Windows 2008 (UAC off and on). Login using standard windows logon works correctly and same code works correctly on Windows 2003. Logs: http://drop.io/6t2b3f3 ETL of user profile service created via com...

SharePoint publishing portal v.s. collaboration portal

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I want to develop a portal application with login function (logged-in user could have more function to use on the site). I want to know what are the pros and cons compared of using publishing portal v.s. collaboration portal template? tha...

Exchange 2007 two node cluster setup on Windows 2008 Enterprise, install error

I am installing Microsoft Exchange 2007 x64 in a two node environment using Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise x64. The Failover Cluster is all setup properly and following best practices for setting up the windows clustering for use with Exchange 2007. All the validation tests pass on the cluster and all of that portion is working fine...

[ASP.NET, Windows Server] The database's auto-deleting task problem

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to develop the on my database. E.g. there are some records in the database: So, if the actual DateTime on the server is 2010-01-09 12:12:12 the record no.1 must be deleted. OK, but what, if in the datebase are e.g. 1.000.000 records? The server has to search in the database on each second to check wha...

Virtualize Win 2008 Server on Vista

Hi, Running Vista 64 as my dev machine, and would like to get a Server 2008 R2 up and running on it. Downloaded the x64 version of Win 2008, then realised virtual pc doesn't support emulating in 64-bit. What ways do I have to get a x64 2008 server up and running virtualised on my Vista machine? ...

How to fix Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled errors

We are using transaction scope features of ASP.NET to manage distributed transaction for that we need to enable distributed transaction via following link: The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions Its works well with SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2003 but when it comes to Windows Serv...

web site address issue

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am using publishing portal. And currently suppose my root site domain name is www.abc.com, and there is a sub-site called sub1, then the root address of sub-site is www.abc.com/sub1, how to change the sub-site's root address to sub1.abc.c...

Missing 'qedit.dll' in Windows Server 2008?

We've found that Windows Server 2008 SP2 doesn't contain QEDIT.DLL. This 'DirectShow Editing' DLL contained several useful DirectShow filters, namely SampleGrabber, that we had been using. I found some references to this issue during the Windows Server 2008 beta cycle, but it was supposed to have been added back for release. Does anyo...

Viewing raw XML build log on CruiseControl.NET under IIS7 - 404

I've installed CruiseControl.NET 1.5 (CTP) on a Windows 2008 server with IIS7. The installer doesn't create a virtual directory for the ccnet dashboard. No biggie, configured that manually, and also changed the AppPool to be Classic as opposed to Integrated Pipeline mode. The web dashboard displays and generally works fine (I can view ...

web site already exist issue?

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using publishing portal template. And I am using command, stsadm -o restore -url http://machinename:8090/siteabc -filename c:\backup\siteabc.bak But met with the following error -- there is a web site already exist on "/siteabc...

IIS appcmd on Windows Server 2003?

Hello everyone, For IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2003, any tools like appcmd for IIS 7.0 with Windows Server 2008? I did not find such command on Windows Server 2003. thanks in advance, George ...

Where do I store user's files?

I have a ASP.NET system that creates files (> 20 MB) for users and stores it currently on a folder in the web server. ...

Deploy ASP.Net MVC solution to Windows 2008

We have a ASP.Net MVC project that runs fine on our developer machines. When we try and run it on a Windows 2008 machine we get the following error: Error This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"), or set e...

ASP.Net MVC Application on Windows Server 2008 uses static file handler

I have just installed a ASP.Net Mvc application on a windows server 2008. When I try to use the application I see that IIS 7 tries to use the static file handler, I therefore get a 403 or 404 error. How do I get it to use the MVC handler? EDIT Have also tried asking this question on serverfault. It has a bounty here ...

How to prevent AppDomain recycles in IIS 7.0 when deleting a sub directory?

I have an asp.net web application that allows users to upload files to an 'uploads' directory that is located in the same virtual directory as the web app. Each uploaded file goes into a temporary sub directory that is named after the user's session id. Once I'm finished with the files, I delete the temp sub directory. The only problem i...