windows-server-2008

.netCART Credit Card Decryption - IIS 7 App Pool and Decryption issue

I've got a site using .netCART. It's running fine in production with Windows Server 2003 and .NET 2.0. On the new server (Windows Server 2008) everything is working except for credit card decryption in the store admin. No errors are being sent, no exceptions thrown, just the encrypted string being output to the screen instead of a decryp...

Default home page of MVC application is always redirecting to logon screen (IIS7)

I'm having a bit of an issue setting up our test site. In IIS 7, our app pool for the site is running in integrated mode. In Authentication, I have Anon enabled and Forms auth enabled. In Authorization, I have Allow All users. All pages allow anon users, EXCEPT the default (Home/Index.aspx). That page always forwards the user to the...

TAPI on Windows 2008 64 bit edition

I have an old app I support (written in VB6) and it interfaces with TAPI. Recently the app got installed on the Windows 2008 Server 64-bit edition. However, the TSP driver for TAPI installation, even though, it got installed, gave an innocuous looking warning. However, the driver (which is 32-bit for sure), does not appear to have b...

Third-Party CA Certificate being removed from Server 2008

We have a third party we are working with that is running an internal (vpn site to site connection) that is using their own CA. We have been given a .p7b file which we import into Third-Party trusted CA to get it to work properly with our WCF Services. The problem is that for some reason the Certificate keeps getting removed. I believ...

Windows 2008 x64 - WCF IIS - OracleException ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified

I have WCF service is hosted in IIS on a Windows 2008 x64 machine. This WCF service needs to access an Oracle database but when it tries to do so it encounters an OracleException with the following error message: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified I tried to test the connection to the Oracle database usin...

Development machine IIS version vs deployment IIS version

My development machine is running Windows XP SP2 (and IIS 5.1 by implication). Until recently our deployment environment was based around Windows Server 2003 (and therefore IIS 6.0). We are about to move to Windows Server 2008 (and therefore IIS 7.0) for a new project. Our projects use ASP.NET MVC and WCF Services. Are there any key ...

Can you add a folder structure to IIS7?

I am in the process of setting up a new server which I share with 2 colleagues. Is it possible to get a folder structure into IIS7 at all (in the MMC) so we can keep our sites seperate? In the IIS7 management console I would like a set of folders foreach of my colleagues so that each of our websites are within their own sub folder. ...

application has failed to start because the side by side configauration is incorrect

HI I have creted an exe by c++ using visualstudio. I have creted a com componet which discover all the instances of sqlserver on particular machine.now in c++ program using visualstudio i write main() and consume the com component. Now it should worrk on my both workstations which are w2k3 machines.And when i try to run the same on w2...

IonicIsapiRewriter doesn't work on Windows 2008 but does in Vista

I am migrating my sites from a Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 however the url rewriting application simply doesnt work when set up on the Windows 2008. Any ideas? I just get 404's instead of it trying to rewrite the url. I have tried using MS Urlrewriting module but it doesnt appear to work either as I have to use the app in Integ...

Can a Windows Server 2003 32-bit machine application work for a Windows Server 2008 64-bit machine?

I am using a Windows Server 2003 32-bit machine. Using that machine I have created a COM component and consumed it in another application and have an EXE file. Now I copy that EXE to another machine installed with Windows Server 2008, 64-bit. And when I try to run that EXE it shows something like "Debug Error: This application needs r...

Automating Office via Windows Service on Server 2008

We have a Windows Service which runs on 2003 Server. It opens a source Word document using the Word Interop and then does some stuff with it. It also does likewise with Excel and PowerPoint files. Recently we've tried moving this service onto a Windows 2008 Server machine and are having real problems with it. COMException at Microso...

Setup Project for Windows Service won't build under Server 2008 (Visual Studio 2008).

Hey everybody We've got new machines here for doing development on running Server 2008. With Visual Studio 2008 we're having problems building a Setup Project which installs the Windows Service - Under Custom Actions then Uninstall, "InstallerClass property is only valid for assemblies". This builds and installs fine on XP SP3. Has a...

XXX.exe is not a valid Win32 application

Configuration: Windows server 2008 x64. Software is cross platform c++ 64bit. The previous installer defaulted to asking the user to install to c:\Program Files (x86)\company\version For the last release I changed the installer using a path override to install to c:\Program Files\company\version The guys who does testing for us sa...

Does NTEventLogAppender work on Windows Server 2008?

I can't find any reference to what versions of Windows the log4j NTEventLogAppender is supported on. I am specifically interested in whether it works on Windows Server 2008. ...

How do you get WatiN to work on Windows Server 2008 with IE8?

My problem is that I cannot get a simple WatiN test to reliably work on my development machine which is running Windows Server 2008 and IE8. I have seen a couple of good posts on this, but am still having problems. Here are the posts: MSDN Testing Article Stack Overflow - WatiN Second Method Fails The steps in the first article see...

Subversion and Windows Server 2008

Hello. I install the subversion on my windows server 2008. But it's only work localhost. It don't work when i try from another computer. I can't find out whats the problem is. Are there any ports or something like that i need to configure? This was the guide i follow Thaks for your help ...

SharePoint Installation Problem on Windows Server 2008

Hello All, I have installed MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008. I am facing a strange problem: I am unable to logon to SharePoint using IE 8, but am able to using Firefox. Pl note that I have taken care of the security in IE. After creating a web application, when I try to chage the web application for creating a Site collection..I am ...

Which is the best DNS Server solution for Windows Server 2008 Web Edition

I'd like to move on Windows Server 2008 and could save 20 Euro every month if I am using Web Edition instead of the Standard Edition. The only "problem", Windows Server 2008 hasn't a build in DNS Server anymore. Now I am asking me, which is the best third party DNS for my Webserver. I took a look on simpleDNS it seems quiet cool. Any a...

Windows Server 2008 - change security settings for multiple files at once

On Windows Server 2008, is there an easy way to modify security permissions for multiple files at once (as with Windows Server 2003)? Right-click - properties does not provide a "Security" tab if more than one file/directory is selected (i.e. ctrl-click multiple files). As well, short of making registry changes, is there a way to edit f...

ASP.NET site move to IIS7 results in gibberish characters in page output

I have an ASP.NET site that was working fine running on Windows Server 2003 / IIS6. I moved it to Windows Server 2008 / IIS7 and the aspx page output now includes gibberish text. For example: p���� ����� The majority of the page renders properly, but there is gibberish here and there. I have checked the event logs and there is nothi...