So, much to my annoyance I discover (after lots of research), that when running 1.1 and 2.0 dot.net frameworks on a 64bit 2003 install, it removes the asp.net tab from the IIS properties. I've tried the registry hacks, I've tried registering 32bit versions of both frameworks, and no luck. My only work around is running the excellent AS...
Using Windows Server 2003 in a multi-user environment (via Remote Desktop, using it as an application server), how to mount a (preferably encrypted) volume in a way, that won't show up on any other user's desktop? Tried, and failed approaches: tweaking user rights -display of mounted volume can not be changed. Bestcrypt / truecrypt. B...
Attempt to send a message through a socket failed with WinSock error 10038. After around 40 seconds, messages are received successfully from the same socket and subsequently the send() is also succeeding in the same socket. This behaviour has been witnessed in Windows Server 2003. Is this any known behaviour with WinSock and Windows Serv...
Is their a way to access a web server such as windows server 2003 installed on a virtual box such as vmware from the host machine? ...
What are some good ways to do this? Is it even possible to do cleanly? Ideally I'd like to use packet headers to decide which server should handle requests. However, if there is an easier/better way let me know. ...
After rebooting the Windows 2003 Server with the IIS I receive the follow error message Cannot connect to the configuration database. in the browser. The error occur on different pages and with different clients. that I think it is a server problem. What can I do to solve this error? ...
Is there a tool or programmatic way to install an SSL cert to the default website in iis 6 and 7? Ideally I am looking for something that can be done via unmanaged code or .net managed code. ...
I have just installed Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and therefore IIS6 (comes as standard). I have also install the windows component that enable the administration of IIS from the browser (https://server:8098/). The problem I have is that I have to log-in to this tool but the Server Administrator u/name and p/word does not let me...
When I download my program from my website to my windows 2003 machine, it has a block on it and you have to right click on the exe, then properties, then select the button "Unblock". I would like to add detection in my installer for when the file is blocked and hence doesn't have enough permissions. But I can't eaisly reproduce getti...
How do I check from within my NSIS installer if my installer has the blocked option in preferences on it. Even if you know of a way to check this without NSIS, please let me know so I can script it myself. See this question to find out more info about this blocked option. ...
When an ASP.NET application is running under IIS6.0 in Windows 2003 Server with impersonation, what user account is relevant for deciding file read/write/execute access privileges? I have two scenarios where I am trying to understand what access to grant/revoke. I thought the most relevant user is probably the identity specified in the...
Has anyone done any sort of performance tests against MSMQ? We have a solution in prod environment where errors are added to a MSMQ for distribution to databases or event monitors. We need to test the capacity of this system but not sure how to start. Anyone know any tools or have any tips? ...
Currently running Server 2003 but am looking at reinstalling in the near future due to a change of direction with the domains. Should I take this opportunity to install Windows Server 2008 instead? I would love to play with new technology and the server is only for a small home business so downtime/performance issues aren't really a conc...
I'm seeing this error several times an hour on my production site and am not quite sure how to fix it. I've grepped the source code and I am not using "../" anywhere in my code to generate a path. My application is running on IIS6 on Win2003 Server. It's using URLRewriter.Net to allow the site to have friendly URLs, and I'm wondering if...
We run a .NET 1.1 application on W2k3 server. The app pool is configured to recycle at 512MB. However, a week ago it started to recycle every 2 minutes. Since we run a web farm, the anonymous user we run IIS with is a domain account. About a week ago, that user account expired, and we have to re-enable it. Could that have caused any prob...
Under Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, SP2 (/3GB switch not enabled) As I understand it, and I may be wrong, the maximum addressable memory for a process is 4GB. Is that 2GB of private bytes and 2GB of virtual bytes? Do you get "out of memory" errors when the private byte limit or virtual byte limit is reached? ...
Required is the true language version of the OS, not the user interface language or the current locale settings. Use case: software installation which has to apply security settings and user account creation. The scripts have to know certain system properties like user group names in the original language of the OS. (Should work with W...
Is there an easy way to tell Windows not to display popups on a headless server machine? Currently occasional application popups are causing my app to freeze because no one is available to press 'Okay' on the console. Just logging to the eventlog would be more than sufficient. ...
My C# application crashes under some circumstances when run with a non-admin user. I'm experiencing a problem with Windows Server 2003 and I'm trying to find more information about it. It may be a problem on other Windows OS's. It seems that if I create a non-admin user, and then run my application under this user with the 'Run as...' ...
My applications installer offers the user the ability to run the application as a service through use of the srvany.exe application. To remove the application on uninstall, I've been using the application "instsrv.exe" with the following command: instsrv "myservice" REMOVE On Windows Server 2003, I encounter an error 1783. Any id...