The cluster managing software for managing clusters on a windows server 2005 cluster had a checkbox for "allow application to interact with desktop" when creating a generic application resource. This appears to be gone in the management software for server 2008 clusters. Does anyone know where this option, if it still exists, is? ...
We use InstallAnywhere to install our product. One of the components that it needs to install is mongrel. IA invokes the following command line during installation: mongrel_rails service::install -N service-1 -D "Service 1" -c "C:\app_dir\\rails\rails_apps\service-1" -p 19000 -e production Apprently under the hoods "sc create..." is...
I have created a service plan to run on Windows server 2008. When I test the service in my Windows XP, the event log category can be created properly. However, It doesn't work on server 2008. I run the service as administrator account already. private EventLog __eventLog; if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MyEventLogCat")) Even...
How can I run solr on a windows server, so it starts up automatically? I run it with: java -jar start.jar but I need the server to do this automatically. ...
I am using windows authentication without impersonation on my company's intranet website with IIS7. Under IIS7, what account is used to access the folder which contains my web app using these settings? Would it be IIS_IUSRS? Or NETWORK SERVICE? Or another I don't know about? ...
This same script worked in older server OS environments, and even on my desktop; and allows me to kick off a nightly process on my website's URL. It simply will not execute the URL in my Windows Server 2008 environment. It does not generate any errors, claiming task completion I can pull the same URL up just fine in the server's web...
I have some different COM-Interop examples that when run on Windows 2008 (Office 2007) always open minimized in the task bar. On Windows 2003 or XP they open like I want them to. Has there been any changes to how Windows deals with this? Or to Office? I know that I can close windows with CTRL-SHIFT-ALT, and by that get them to start m...
Does anyone know of a step by step process of setting up a ColdFusion 9 cluster using IIS 7.5? Either failover or network load balance would be nice. Without IIS being clusterable in Windows 2008 R2, I'm not sure of the best means to configure the web server and ColdFusion service. Some of the things I'm looking for are..... With lo...
I am setting up my new 2008 Server w/ IIS 7 and I am having trouble getting a global application style css file to apply to my web apps. So my app is in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\firmApps\applicationName and my css is in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\firmApps\applicationStyle/global.css. This set up works fine on my production and test iis 6 boxes bu...
I've had sporadic performance problems with my website for awhile now. 90% of the time the site is very fast. But occasionally it is just really, really slow. I mean like 5-10 seconds load time kind of slow. I thought I had narrowed it down to the server I was on so I migrated everything to a new dedicated server from a completely di...
Is it possible to test Windows 2008 server via VPC when my host of a Windows 7 machine? I don't see anywhere where it says this is possible? The only VPC images (Windows 2008 R2) that I download from Microsoft state that the host machine must be Windows 2008. Is there an alternative? ...
Hello, I have installation solution that have installer project (not web installer but simple installer) that installs NT services, web service and web sites with help of additional two projects of dlls with my own code that performs my installation step. In user actions of installer project I call installer function of one of those pr...
Hi, I am running about 10 asp.net websites on a hosted virtual server. The server runs Server 2008 - each website is backed by its own database running on SQL server 2008 on the same box. Lately the box has seemed really slow. The only kind of discovery i could think of doing was looking in the task manager, where i can see w3wp and sq...
We have moved an existing website from IIS 6 to Windows Server 2008 64-bit + IIS 7.5. The website consists of Classic ASP, ASP.NET, and the Classic ASP uses several 32-bit ActiveX components. The website's app pool is running Classic Pipeline Mode and we have enabled 32-bit applications for the app poll too. In Task Manager i can see tha...
Hey everyone, I have 2 questions, maybe you could help me out. I built a DLL from the following code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.DirectoryServices; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace AutoAD { public class Class1 { public static void addUser(string userName) { try ...
Does anyone know the value of the Java system property "os.name" on Windows Server 2008? I found a rally going here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803075/crowdsourcing-a-complete-list-of-common-java-system-properties-and-known-values), but nothing on Windows Server 2008. Any help is appreciated. ...
I need to store about 600,000 images on a web server that uses NTFS. Am I better off storing images in 20,000-image chunks in subfolders? (Windows Server 2008) I'm concerned about incurring operating system overhead during image retrieval ...
We have Failed Request Tracing working on IIS7.5 (Windows 2008 Server Core) and our rule has ASP.NET checked off and verbose logging set. However, on many googled screenshots of what a typical failed request trace looks like, we see the actual duration of each subpart in milliseconds shown to the right of the word verbose on the "reques...
I'm not sure if the title makes sense. Hard question to ask. I have an application running on a server under my network account, and it's scheduled to run daily. I can remote in with my user credentials and check on the application. What if I want more than one person to be able to remote in and check it? I can create a new accoun...
I'm trying do get Server 2008's Task Scheduler to run a C# console app which backs up data to a mapped backup drive somewhere on FastHosts network. I've written a test app which simply does this Directory.CreateDirectory("Z:\" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()); i.e. just creates a directory on the root of this Z drive. This works fin...