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How to determine hardware requirements

I've been asked to spec the server hardware requirements for the application I'm currently developing and I'm not confident in my own abilities to do this correctly. I would ideally like a step by step list of how to do this myself, but reading…
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Keep WCF live , no IIS recycle

I have a WCF application. I d like to keep this application live all the time. If there is a certain period of inactivity, does IIS app pool recycles? How do I keep it alive all the time? Should i use a Timer? I do have sensitive data within the…
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Named Pipe Access Denied when not running as Local System

I'm working on an issue at the moment where a WCF application creates a named pipe, which is then to be accessed by an asp.net application running in IIS. I didn't write the WCF application, I'm just trying to support it. The application runs in…
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what are my options for hosting a WCF service

My company is building a system that will need to use user authentication and web services (WCF or ASMX whichever works, the differences are all confined to a tiny slice of code anyway) and our current hosting provider is somewhat "flaky". They are…
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Why is Kerberos security failing for our ADFS proxy server?

We have a WCF service that uses active federation to authenticate callers via AD FS 2.0 and it's working fine internally. Now we want to expose it to the outside world, so our server team set up a server in the DMZ for the service and an AD FS Proxy…
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Detailed Errors not working for WCF Service in IIS

If I were to change the web.config file to have errors in it, I only see the standard 500 - Internal Server Page. Despite setting the Error Pages mode to Detailed, I can't see a detailed error message. How do I sort this? The reason is I'm wanting…
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How to configure WCF Service to AutoStart in AppFabric when the services reside in the website root

I'm trying to configure my WCF services under WIndows Server 2008 R2's IIS and AppFabric to auto-start, but the steps listed at MSDN are possible only when the services reside in an application, but in my case, the .svc files reside directly in the…
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Configuring transactional MSMQ on load-balanced servers

I've got a solution running on a single server right now that uses transactional private queues (msmq/wcf). Windows services consume and process messages on the queues, and the web application layer pushes messages to the queues. We're moving to…
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Permission needed for Named pipes on Windows 2008

Are there any special permissions needed for domain service account running a windows service which receives messages over named pipes? Hosting environment is Windows Server 2008. Background: We have two processes communicating over named pipes. Our…
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WCF service hosted in IIS7 with administrator rights?

How do I grant administrator rights to a running WCF service hosted in IIS7? The problem is, my code works fine in a test console application runned as an administrator, but the same code used from WCF service in IIS7 fails. When I run the same…
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PKI infrastructure and usage question

I work in a small software solutions company (50 employees) and I was recently tasked with experimenting with web services. Since we mainly offer solutions for Windows, I started toying around with Microsoft's WCF 4 (.NET 4.0). Basically, these web…
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How to run a program as admin

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_S2 According to this article, Section Scenario 2: Configure an application to always run elevated, I cannot see "Run this program as an administrator" option and I think the…
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Possibility for a server to ensure WCF service is accessible to endpoint

I have hosted a WCF service in a server and I have 500+ endpoints(PCs) listening and consuming the service by running an executable as windows-service in all those endpoints. Problem: Some PCs are unable to access the service. From the server side I…
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Details Log on IIS 8.5

On my IIS log I found errors that occur randomly when a client calls my WCF service. The error log is this: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 8.5 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2018-12-13 10:21:27 #Fields: date time s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem…
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Authentication error when connecting to WCF service via Load balancer to the same server

I have 2 servers. Each of them has one WCF service installed. The client connects to the services through the load balancer. The load balancer distributes requests to these 2 servers. When the load balancer redirects the request to the same server…
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