For some reason I can't get DTA to connect to my development machine. It connects to a remote DB just fine but when I point it to my dev machine I get an error saying: Failed to initialize MSDB database for tuning (exit code: -1073741819). I'm pretty sure it's not a permissions issue since I've used profiler to capture what it's doing ...
I would like to play a video on a web page using Windows Media Player, and start it at a certain location using the currentPosition parameter. It works fine when I create it and play it from visual studio in Windows XP - meaning that that the video file is indexed. However, the currentPosition parameter does not seem to have any effect ...
I have an application running on a Windows Server 2008, that is processing uploaded images. Currently it successfully processes about 8000 images per day, creating 11 different sizes of each image. The problem that I have is that sometimes the application fails to load some images, I get the error "System.Runtime.InteropServices.Externa...
I know that with Network Load Balancing and Failover Clusteringwe can make passive services highly available. But what about active apps? Example: One of my apps retrieves some content from a external resource in a fixed interval. I have imagined the following scenarios: Run it in a single machine. Problem: if this instance falls, the...
Hi, Are there any limitations based on Windows Server 2008 R2 versions for Windows Process Activation Service? (i.e. some features of WAS are unavailable, limitations on number of worker processes, etc.) Thanks a lot! ...
I know about increasing, but is there a way reduce the size of an EBS volume? Like I've put effort into my AMI but soon realized it's way to big for my needs. It's a windows 2008 instance. ...
Hi. What's a free tool to export the groups and users on a Windows server and then import them again on a rebuilt system? Thanks. ...
Hi everyone, now we all know that the best way to stop the search engine known as Google to avoid indexing http://domain.com as a different site to http://www.domain.com/ is to do a permanent (301) redirect through IIS, or to add a DNS entry that makes www.domain.com the canonial name for pretty much anything under that domain (eg. wild...
I have a windows 2008 Server with hyper-v enabled. I can't seem to load any network adapter into the virtual machine, it always says "Load Failed". Im really not sure what I'm doing wrong, or where to start. ...
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running on a VM machine. My .NET service is running on this server periodically querying WMI, for example: SELECT ProcessId FROM Win32_Service WHERE ... After a day or two WMIprvse takes up to 500M memory and WMI queries start getting out of memory exceptions. This article seems to be talking about thi...
if we have two options MailEnable Standard hMail Server which one we should choose...? thanks ...
I'd like to know if it is possible to have this application (neo4j) running on windows server 2008 alongside an asp.net mvc application. Reason for this, I need to access the graph database (neo4j) which provides a RESTful service from my mvc application. How would I go about setting up this architecture? ...
Switching aged 2003 SRV to 2008 caused my Asp.net 2 application fail: The application is no more loading the required library DLL from /bin/ folder anymore. What should I change in my code or web.config to make this webapp load OK also in new 2008 server? Now I receive this error when I access the application: This type is in IMPOR...
I recently switched to a MacBook Pro for my development machine (for many reasons). I want to setup a Virtual Machine for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Studio 2010 development. I also have need to do some development work with SharePoint 2010. What I am wondering is if I should use Windows 7 (64 bit) or Windows Server 2008 (64 bit) as the O...
I have a general question about MS Fax Routing service in Server 2008. Is it possible to have multiple extensions on the fax server. For example if the fax number is 90081000, can there be an extension for 1001, 1002 etc etc. Are we able to create these extension from within the MS Fax software and then route the different extensions ...
If I have 3 million pages, which directory structure is better? Method 1. ~/123456789.htm (Putting all the 3 million pages into the same folder without any sub folders) Method 2. ~/789/123456789.htm (Create 999 sub-folders, each sub-folder contains about 3000 pages) For Windows Server 2008, which folder structure is fa...
Hi all, I've installed HTTP Activation and Non-HTTP Activation IIS's features for Framework.NET 3.0 under WCF Activation feature. I'm trying to remove http and https bindings (under default Web Site) from IIS Manager and leave others (net.tcp, net.msmq, etc.) but if I close and re-open IIS manager I not found any icons in the right pan...
I inherited a script running on Windows Server 2003 that I need to port to Windows Server 2008. The current script is: strComputer = "servernamexyz" Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & _ strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.E...
I've got a managed process (x86) running on a Win Server 2008 (x64). When i'm talking a dump of the process via the task manager ("Create dump file"), i use correctly SOS on win dbg (it complains about symbols and such even though i have all of the debugging symbols installed). If i'll create the dump using procdump.exe [SysInternals], ...
I need to run MSTest on an assembly referenced by a UNC path. When I try I get a generic error, which Google tells me is trust related.The machine where MSTest runs and the network host are both Server2008R2 (in some circumstances the same machine). For example, running this works fine: mstest /testcontainer:c:\builds\SimpleLibraryT...