windows-server-2008

Calling vb6 objects from asp.net web service fails but works from forms app

We have an asp.net web service running on Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit). It is in its own application pool. We've tried both Integrated and Classic settings for Managed Pipeline Mode. Enable 32-bit Applications is set to True. It is not able to successfully call a vb6 dll method but a Windows Forms app on the same m...

Troubleshooting failover cluster problem in W2K8 / SQL05

I have an active/passive W2K8 (64) cluster pair, running SQL05 Standard. Shared storage is on a HP EVA SAN (FC). I recently expanded the filesystem on the active node for a database, adding a drive designation. The shared storage drives are designated as F:, I:, J:, L: and X:, with SQL filesystems on the first 4 and X: used for a back...

DNS and Http HOST header issue

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using publishing portal template. I have a physical server with a single IP address, and I have set in DNS to map two domain names (server1.mycorp.com and server2.mycorp.com) to the same server/IP address. My question is how to se...

Error setting up Mercurial on Windows Server 2008

Hello, I want to set up a Mercurial SC server and have been following the instructions found here: http//stackoverflow.com/questions/818571/how-to-setup-mercurial-and-hgwebdir-on-iis I have checked all my settings multiple times and cannot seem to get passed this error after completing the configuration. Any advice would be helpful. T...

Sql Server CE 2.0 RDA on IIS 7 and Sql Server 2008

I am trying to get SQL server CE 2.0 RDA that was working on IIS6 (Server 2003) and Sql Server 2000 moved to a Windows 2008 server with IIS and SQL server 2008. Is this something that is possible? It seems that there is no fundamental reason that it would not. The target database is not changed since the migration. My first problem i...

Does IIS 7 have limit of simultaneous requests?

Hi, Does IIS 7 have some limit of simultaneous requests? I'm using Windows Server 2008. Thanks in advance. ...

dBASE ODBC drivers on Window Server 2008

Hi, I have an C# winforms app that works fine on all our XP machines. We want to put it on a new Win 2008 64 bit server and it breaks on the following code: using (OdbcConnection oConn = new OdbcConnection()) { oConn.ConnectionString = @"Driver={Microsoft dBase Driver (*.dbf)};SourceType=DBF;SourceDB=" + filePath + ";Exclusive=No; ...

ASP.NET Application page not working on clients computers

Hello, we developped an ASP.NET application that runs fine on our development server and in our network computers. But in production, the application works when accessing it directly from the web server but not on the clients (code behind is not executing). Any hints? TY Framework is 3.5 ...

How to install NIC card on client computers with RIS server

How to install NIC card on client computers with RIS server I need to install NIC card on the client computer automatically after RIS installation. ...

Architecture design help

I'm looking for some input on my current project architecture. There are three components: Server, Desktop, and Mobile Device. I have 2 goals: 1) Send data (Approx. no more than 100 KB of text) from the Desktop (multi platform client application running on windows XP/Vista/7, and Mac OS X) to a server (Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, WCF ...

PHP timeout during simple connection to MySQL - on win2k8 64bit IIS 7 / FastCGI php - new install

I installed PHP/FastCGI and Mysql on w2k8 64bit IIS7. PHPinfo() loads fine, and MySQL extension is properly installed. PHP displays echo commands. MySQL also works fine through the MySQL Command Line Client. I can create DBs, tables and users. However MySQL does not respond and the PHP script times out when simply connecting with mysq...

VB6 app hangs for a while on Windows Server 2008 sp1

I have a problem with our VB6 app. It's an old system with lots of forms run on our customers Terminal Servers. One customer has a problem and they have two Windows Server 2008 (32 bit), I don't know of anyone else with the same problem. Other customers has XP, Win7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 (64 bit). I haven't found a...

Windows 2008 task scheduler tasks can have user interface?

on Windows 2003 server, scheduled tasks appeared on the console if the user was logged in at the time the task started. eg a scheduled task run as user xyz would appear on the screen if xyz user was logged in. This was the default behaviour on 2003 but isnt on 2008. Is there some way to get it to work on 2008? ...

Local workstation as Mercurial server

I am trying to follow the instructions posted here but am getting stuck at step 3. After setting up my local workstation to serve the Repository; I cannot clone it from my server. When I run the following command hg clone http://COMPUTER-XXXXX.hsd1.va.comcast.net:8000/ I receive abort: error: getaddrinfo failed What am I missin...

Clipboard Copy-Paste doesn't work in a service on Win Server 2008/Vista 64bit

Update: This issue has been resolved. you can read about the solution in here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2237696/creating-a-process-in-a-non-zero-session-from-a-service-in-windows-2008-server Thanks everyone! Hi, I am trying to use Clipboard API (in Delphi) to extract images from Word documents. my code works OK in Windows...

Clipboard Copy-Paste doesn't work on Win Server 2008/Vista 64bit

Hi, I am trying to use Clipboard API (in Delphi) to extract images from Word documents. my code works OK in Windows XP/2003 but in windows 2008 64 bit it doesn't work. in win 2008 i get an error saying that Clipboard.Formats is empty and doesn't contain any format. The image seems to be copied to the Clipboard (i can see it in the clip...

Help needed in Setting up DNS Server in Windows 2008

Hi I'm trying to setup a DNS server on my loca network, so that when a client machine does NSLOOKUP MYPCNAME it returns the IP address of MYPCNAME I installed DNS on the server, and I added a Forward lookup Zone named 'LAN' Added an A record for MYPCNAME to point to 192.168.1.10 Now I can lookup the names using the fully qualified name...

Creating a process in a non-zero session from a service in windows-2008-server?

Hi, I was wondering if there is a simple way for a service to create a process in user session? My service is running as a user(administrator) account and not as a LocalSystem acount, therefore i can't use the WTSQueryUserToken function. i have tried calling OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess,TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS,TokenHandle); but whe...

In ASP.NET, can too many CacheDependency instances affect scalability?

I am building an ASP.NET application. Within each ASPX page, we are outputting inline snippets of HTML that are pulled from static text files. Similar to the example shown here: http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=331 As in the article, we store the contents of the files in HttpRuntime.Cache with a CacheDependency pointing t...

Enabling Server Manager Remote Management on Windows Server 2008 (not R2)

I am trying to enable server manager remote management on a Windows Server 2008 (not R2) machine. I get the following error when I try to connect to the server remotely. Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The resource URI ...://schemas.microsoft.c...