I want to use Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host, and load RedHat as a guest OS.
Should I use VMWare, or does Windows have something built in that competes with VMWare?
At work (UK university) we use a set of Windows servers running WS2008R2 and RRAS which offer VPN service to students in our accommodation. We do this to associate the network connections with individuals. Before they've connected to the VPN all they can talk to is the stuff thats needed to setup the VPN and a local web site with documentation on…
We have Windows Server Core 2008 R2. We have successfully installed .NET and the Visual C++ runtimes.
Our application requires the ability to post messages to an MSMQ server
To be clear we do not want to install MSMQ server on the machine.
However we want to be able to post messages to a remote MSMQ server so we need to install the client…
Hi there, I've been trying to get back into coding for a while, so I figured I'd start with some simple SDL, now, without the file i/o, this compiles fine, but when I throw in the stdio code, it starts throwing errors. This I'm not sure about, I don't see any problem with the code itself, however, like I said, I might as well be a newbie,…
Background:
I have an environment with two different AD domains, each in its own forest, each with two Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers acting as DNS servers. There is no trust between the domains.
Each DNS server manages the main DNS zone for its AD domain, and then some other zones, including the reverse lookup zone for its…
I have a Windows Server which has ~10 IP addresses statically bound. The problem is I don't know how to specify the default IP address.
Sometimes when I assign a new address to the NIC, the default IP address changes with the last IP entered in the advanced IP configuration on the NIC. This has the effect (since I use NAT) that the…
I have a Windows Server which has ~10 IP addresses statically bound. The problem is I don't know how to specify the default IP address.
Sometimes when I assign a new address to the NIC, the default IP address changes with the last IP entered in the advanced IP configuration on the NIC. This has the effect (since I use NAT) that the…
Here's the situation:
Setup:
1 Windows Server 2008 machine acting as a Domain Controller and RRAS server
1 CentOS machine in a datacentre located elsewhere
PPTP client running on CentOS machine, connected to the DC via
When I connect to the DC, everything is working fine. I have set up a static IP for the dialup connection in…
StackOverflow users suggested I try my question here.
I'm using Server 2008 EE and IIS 7. I've got a site that I've migrated over from XP Pro using IIS 5.
On the old system, I was using IIS Password to use simple .htaccess files to control a couple of folders that I didn't want to be publicly viewable.
Now that I'm running a…
I'm attempting to integrate UPS WorldShip with a SQL Server 2008 R2 database but the connection is very inconsistent. UPS claims this is a DSN/Windows problem and I have not been able to convince them otherwise.
The integration is quite simple: my shipping guy clicks a button which opens a form where he enters an order #.…
We have an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 application running on Windows Server 2008 – Standard (32 –bit), Dual Core Xeon (3.0 GHz), 2 G.B R.A.M. Most of the times application renders response in 3-4 seconds, but sometimes users get very late response and delay is up to 40 seconds or more than a minute.
It happens in following way:…
I installed multiple drupal 7 sites using the Web Platform Installer on Windows Server 2008.
Until know they worked without any problems, but recently internal server error 500 started to show up (once every so many requests), now it happens for all requests to any of the php sites.
There's not much detail to go on,…
Possibly-Relevant Background Info:
I've recently moved up from icky shared hosting to a glorious, Remote Desktop-administrated VPS server running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Even though I'm only 21 now and a computer science major, I've tried to play with every Windows Server release since '03, just to learn new things.…
Can anyone shed some light on this?
On our dev boxes, our database resides entirely in the PRIMARY filegroup, and everything works fine.
On one of our production servers, recently upgraded from 2005 to 2008, we noticed it was performing slower than it should. On this machine, there are two filegroups - PRIMARY and…
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server that is a Hyper-V host (Dell PowerEdge T300). Today for the first time I encountered an odd situation; i lost connection with one of the guest machines but logging on physically it seems the guest OS is still running but no longer contactable via the network.
I tried to shut down the…
I have gotten awesome advice from users on here for getting Exchange on Windows SBS 2008 set up. I think this is the final piece and I'm ready for roll-out!
I need to set up Exchange so that it RECEIVES mail from our existing mail server as a Forward [aliases on the existing mail server to forward mail from…
I have developed a windows service and this is service is running on my local computer under my account. When I try to debug this service by attaching this as a process in visual studio 2008 I get “Unable to attach to the process. Visual Studio has insufficient privileges to debug this process. To debug this…
With Visual Studio 2010 right around the corner, what does Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional upgrade to in Visual Studio 2010? Do I get 2010 for free, if I buy this flavor of 2008 now?
Today wanting to deploy an asp.net mvc application I had to enable .NET Extensibility, ASP.NET, ISAPI Extensions, and ISAPI Filters on Win Small Buisness Server 2008 I was surprised 1h and I could not find how to do it.
This was the hint but ... still nothing.…
Visual Studio 2010 has no longer uses .vsprops files and instead uses .props files.
To include a .vsprops file in a Visual Studio 2008 project, one could right-click the project icon in the Solution Explorer panel, choose Properties, go to the Configuration…
I am rebuilding my development machine. This issue is not new to me, but I don't remember the solution.
I started with VS 2008 Pro, then SQL 2008 Developer, then the SQL SP1, then VS SP1. The result is that I cannot open SSIS projects (see the error below).…
I have a crystal report in my Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET project, and when I choose "Group Expert" from the Crystal Reports - Report menu, Visual Studio crashes / hangs and I have to use Task Manager to close the program. This happens no matter how many…
Hi i have a error like " dbFileName cannot be opened because it is version 655. This server supports version 612 and earlier. "
what should i do ? some friend of mine done a project but i guess he done it with sql 2008 and i have sql 2005 is that the…