I have a java programs that gives me an error after working fine for a few hours ... these programs used to work fine on our earlier server which had windows server 2003 now we have upgraded to windows server 2008 with a higher configuration and newly installed SQL Server .Is there any db setting that i'm missing or is there any OS setti...
I have an application that spiders websites for information. It seems like after 20-45 minutes of creating HttpWebRequests a bunch of them return timeouts. One thing we do is attach a BindIPDelegate anonymous function to give the request a specific IP since we round-robin through about 150 IPs. I'm setting up the HttpWebRequest object...
A windows service written in c# which actually interacts with MS Word works fine when run in debug mode..or running it from the command prompt.. But it's not working after installing it as a service. The account which runs the service is an Administrator (local). Server 2008 R2...never had a problem before using in 2003 ...
I am trying to run programs from another .NET program that requires elevation using the impersonation option of the Process.Start (System.Diagnostics) method. The user for impersonation is a local administrator. The O/S is 2008 and UAC is turned on. Whenever calling process start I'm getting a Win32 permission error: "The requested ope...
Hi everyone, I am having an ongoing situation where when I try to upload files via FTP that I get an error that the DLL is locked and currently cannot be overwritten. This is only DLLs that this is happeneing to and normal files (aspx, ascx, css etc) can be overwritten fine. Our Setup We have 2 webservers that are kept in sync via DFS w...
I copied a few million files from one disk array to another on a Server 2008 box. Then I wanted to move the share that people used to access those files, so it would point at the new location of the files. I innocently clicked "stop sharing" on the first share, thinking it would just delete a record somewhere, and deny network access to...
[This might be better on serverfault, if so, I'll move the question over there - but thought there's more asp.net devs here so more chance of this behaviour having been seen by someone else] I've been trying to track down the .NET setting in IIS that governs this behaviour, but with no luck... In brief, we have a Server 2008 R1 box run...
Hello. In my vds server (windows server 2008) some asp.net websites using iis worker and these use also 50 mb ram. Sometimes this is increase to 250 mb. Is it normal? ...
We have a web server that is running many web applications. When I took over this server, I noticed that the sites were not precompiled, so in an effort to clean it up, I precompiled the site using the Publish option in VS2008 (and allow the precompiled site to be updatable). When I deployed the site to the web server, the site stopped...
Ok, here is a strange one. I have a routine that goes through and makes several deletions of old data. Ive had a few people complain about getting the error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint Looking at my code (im using L2S), i dont see how this is possible. But ok,...
My server 2008 has mysql databases, SQL Server databases, and multiple websites. How do I back this information up? I have setup the dedicated server to have two 300GB hard drives and they are both mirrored. I want to make sure that I have a backup somewhere else as well. If it's not my home server, I don't mind backing up somewhere el...
I have installed VisualSVN Server on Windows Server 2008. I was trying to create a hotcopy backup using svnadmin tool. It seems that I don't have this tool installed: C:\>svnadmin hotcopy C:\Repositories\Develop C:\temp\svnbackup 'svnadmin' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Does Visu...
Hey all, I have a duel server configuration on a host provider using VPS. I was told by my Host provider that in order to use free bandwidth between my two servers (they are in the same location) I need to add a alias "subnet" to a specific ip (A private network, VPN). How do I add an aliased ip in widnwos? in Linux the relevant comma...
I installed VisualSVN Server on Windows Server 2008. Now I would like to create a repository backup plan. My intention is to create full hotcopy bakcup (using svnadmin hotcopy and then incremental backups. How to do a incremental backup using svnadmin.exe? Or should I take only svnadmin dump backups? ...
I'm a subversion noob. I was plannig to take backups from the repo using this command: svnadmin dump C:\Repositories\Dev > D:\backups\repo_dev.bak My intention is to put this into Scheduled Task (Windows Server 2008) and run this on daily or weekly basis. Can I use this command only (old backup is replaced by the new one) or do I need...
How to take svnadmin hotcopy into the same directory (eg. when this command is in the scheduled tasks)? C:\>svnadmin hotcopy c:\temp\testrepo c:\temp\hotcopy_backup C:\>svnadmin hotcopy c:\temp\testrepo c:\temp\hotcopy_backup svnadmin: 'c:\temp\hotcopy_backup' exists and is non-empty So what is the best practice, because simple overwr...
I have a Windows 2008 server which functions as a web service server, and every other week or so, the C:\Windows\Temp folder is filled with large (between 40-300 meg) files with names like: ~DF5D73.tmp, ~DFA95.tmp, etc. They appear My webservices on the server don't create any files with that type of name, and the contents don't appea...
I've got an object that is owned by the Network Service that I want to delete. It is a Message Queue, a Private Queue. The queue's Properties | Security tab shows Network Services has full control, Everyon has just Get Properties, Get Permissions, and Send Message, And Anonymous Logon has Send Message. I've got the Administrator login...
How many files can a windows server 2008 r2 directory safely hold? I'm thinking in terms of a website that has image galleries. Say there is one directory that holds all the thumbnails and a different directory that holds the full size images. How many pairs of images can be safely stored? Or, if there isn't a good cut-and-dry answer, ...
Playing with windows server 2008 and IIS 7 I encountered a weakness which allows running an executable on the web server. I tried my friends VPS server and it seems working on at least web and enterprise editions. I'm not a hacker and just found it accidentally when I was testing my web application. The question is how can I report it a...