windows-server-2008

What are the major pros and cons to developing .NET Web Apps on Windows Server 2008 R2 vs. Windows 7?

My question is in the context of ease of development with MS development tools and IIS. What are the pros and cons to developing directly on Windows Server 2008 R2 instead of Windows 7? ...

COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog - how to get DCOM Config folder content?

Is it possible to access DCOM Config via COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog? I can get a collection of applications and configure them but cannot figure out how to get a collection of the items in the DCOM Config folder in Component Services. Any suggestions? ...

.NET MVC website Deployment

Strange thing is happing with my .NET MVC deployment. I have tested my application on my development environment, and on IIS of my Win7 and every works as expected. But after deployed my application on Windows Server 2008, Login/Authentication page appear, on almost every pages, even to access 'scripts' and 'contents' folders. Any tip...

Zenoss need to get freespace threshold and alerts on windows "mount points"

I have a WMI query that will give me all the data I need to do this but I can't figure out how to get this working in Zenoss. I know I need to set data points and a threshold, and optionaly a graph. The problem is examples of how to do this with WMI are few and very confusing. Could anyone atleast point me to documention on how to do thi...

Windows Server Appfabric on windows server 2008 R2 web edition

Is there any way to install the Windows Server AppFabric on the windows server 2008 web edition ? Or at least the WCF hosting enviroment. What are the supported edition for appfabric ? ...

A good host that supports windows 2008 & PostgreSQL?

Looking for a good host for a project on Win2008 and PostgreSQL. I found these 2 sites but they support older versions of PostgreSQL. http://www.jodohost.com/ http://www.gbehost.com/ Does anyone have any good suggestions? ...

Windows server 2008 R2 standard edition large memory

I have few tasks running in my windows server in Dell R0990 and after few weeks, the same tasks are using 50 percent more memory on the startup. I Even rebooted the server, but it didn't help. Is There any place where I can check what settings got changed? ...

Querying for ae matches æ in SQL Server / LINQ to SQL

When I try running... SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Username = 'ae' it returns matches where the username is æ (ash character). I was wondering if there's a way to support characters like the ash character but get an exact match for what I'm looking for. I'd like to search for ae and get just ae, not ae and æ I'm using SQL Server 2008 an...

Getting Nant.MailLogger to work on Windows 2008

I have had a NAnt/NAntContrib build running for a while on one machine: (MS Windows Server 2003 Standard 32-bit SP2) And I now need to run the same build script on a newer machine: (Windows Server Standard 2008) I have gotten NAnt and NAnt.Config installed and working on the new machine. I am using NAnt.Core.Maillogger on the original ...

When I call a REST method, it asks me if I want to Download the File.

I have a simple WCF Rest Service with one method. The interface is defined as: [ServiceContract] public interface IHelloRest { [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate = "json/hello/{name}", ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)] string Hello(string name); } The implementation is defined as: public string Hello(string na...

How to delete a DNS Zone with WMI

I can create a new zone, add and delete records for that zone, all relatively easily using WMI and System.Management, but for the life of me can't figure out how to delete a zone. It doesn't appear to be a method in the WMI Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682123(VS.85).aspx Any thoughts on how to do this? Tryin...

Debug stored procedure from Visual Studio 2005

Hello, i'm missing the "Step Into Stored Procedure" option when i rightclick a Stored Procedure in Server Explorer/Data Connections. This is neither a problem under Windows XP(development pc) nor with Windows Server 2003/64 bit(old productive Server). But under Windows Server 2008/64bit there is not an option to debug a stored procedure...

problem on getting performancecounters from server computers

I am accesing to all off the computers on my lan and geting performance counters, but some of server computers doesnt give me true values they returns 0. is there any setting for this? note: firewall status is close for servers. here is a code sniplet from my application: PerformanceCounterCategory pcc = new PerformanceCounterCategory...

Why doesn't Windows Server 2008 Explorer display updated File Details.

I have an application provided by a 3rd Party which dumps to a log file on the local disk of my Windows 2008 Server. I noticed that if I view the file from Windows Explorer, the file doesn't show the latest file size or date modified. The only time this information is updated is if I open the file for viewing or open the properties of ...

Runtime.getRuntime().exec problem win serv 2003 versus win serv 2008

I have some java code as follows: try { String outString ="java -jar C:\\ami\\bin\\ImmediateSubmit.jar 12345 localhost"; Runtime.getRuntime().exec(outString); out.println("SUBMITTED"); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("IO Exception parse"); out.println("FAILED"); e.printStackTrace(); } It works fine in win ser...

Server 2008 Cannot Set User Rights

I attempted to do some Win32 stuff in C# 3.5 to get elevated User Rights for a console app. I develop on Visual Studio 2008 SP1/GDR and things work fine when run under the debugger. Things also work fine when I run the console app stand-alone. Things also run fine when I package everything into an MSI and install it on a 2003 server and ...

Problem publising site to Windows 2008 server

I have an Ajax enabled web app created with Visual Studio 2005 - .Net framework 2.0. I publish this to a Windows 2003 server and everything works fine. I now need to publish to a Windows 2008 server with IIS 7.0 on it. Whereas before I used to publish to http:// .... (because the site on the 2003 server was Frontpage server extension en...

How to install Excel OLE DB to Windows Server 2008?

We have a web server running Windows 2008 32-bit. When we deploy a website that reads from Excel using OLE DB, we got this error The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. We don't want to install Microsoft Office on the server. Is there anything else we can do to solve this? Thanks in adv...

Backup Sharepoint 2010 (using Powershell - Backup-SPFarm)

I asked this on ServerFault, but didn't get any reply's, I know it's command line, but they should still be able to answer it, anyone here have any idea's? I've ran the following (task description): > Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell > Backup-SPFarm -Directory E:\Backups -BackupMethod Full But get this error: Backup-SPFa...

Setup MongoDB on Windows Server 2008

Hi, I'm new to mongoDB and like it so far, I work local for my dev where I have mongo running as service on Win7. I have it allso running as a service on my VPS on Win server 2008. When I am on the server it works fine but I don't know hos to set it up so I can acces it from outside of the server? Can't find any good documentation on th...