Windows Server 2008 (sometimes abbreviated as "Win2K8") is one of Microsoft Windows' server line of operating systems. Released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and officially released on February 27, 2008, it is the successor to Windows Server 2003, released nearly five years earlier. A second release, named Windows Server 2008 R2, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009. Like Win Vista and Win 7, Win Server 2008 is based on Windows NT 6.x.
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Windows SMTP Server with Server 2008 and PHP
For some reason the iis smtp server and php are not communicating properly. I have verified that the smtp is working by telneting to it and doing the mail commands and I'm able to receive an email. In addition, I followed this link…
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mysql dump, windows, seperate files for each DB, all databases option
Does anybody have an example on how to dump all databases uses mysql dump? And possible all a new file for each DB?
I'm using the follow command:
mysqldump -u root -p pw --all-databases > backup.sql;
It's returning with "You have an error in your…
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using word object in windows server
I have asp.net app which at some point takes word document, edits some of the data there and sends it to email.
While this is running good on my local computer where I have microsoft word, when I am trying to do the same thing from windows server…

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Apache Alias: Windows Server 2008
Issue server: Windows 2008
Apache Version: 2.2
Ive been having issues getting an alias to work on a Windows Server 2008 box. The same code is config is working fine on one of my test environments that runs Windows 2003.
Its very simple. I just need…

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Testing MSDTC between 2 machines
Is there a utility in which you can provide 2 machine names and determine whether or not they are configured properly to handle transactions back and forth?
(If this is a better question for another Stack Exchange site, please suggest)

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Can't browse any website on IIS 7.5
I've just installed IIS on windows server 2008 R2. I left everything as default while installing. After installation however, I'm not able to browse any of the websites added. Even the default web site is not browsable. When i right click the…

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Opencart Version 1.5.1.3 Installed on IIS 7. How can I get SEO Friendly URL's?
Im trying to generate SEO Friendly URL's for opencart in IIS 7. I have successfully installed a website, assigned a domain and connected the opencart installation to a mysql database instance.
Generating SEO Friendly URL's in apache seems so easy…
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Not able to find windows users in group?
Trying to get a list of users in a group. I can get users in an OU and stuff. But the group isn't working! I've since taken the group out of the OU and put it in the root hoping that would help, but it…

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Redirect URL in IIS 7.5
I want to all www domain to naked via IIS Rewrite engine. There are many domains pointing to same application.
Here is my rule :
^(www.)(.*)$
Action Type : Redirect
Redirect URL : {R:2}
Redirect Type : Permanent
When i test pattern for www.xxx.com…

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Change colour in GIF (Windows Server)
I'm currently moving to a VPS hosted on Windows 2008 but one of my scripts doesn't work now. The error I'm getting is:
Warning: imagegif() [function.imagegif]: Unable to open 'test.gif' for writing in…

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IIS Host Headers and non WWW to WWW
I know there's a bunch of examples on how to redirect your non www to your www site, but I'm not using any rewrite utils/ISAPI.
On my Windows 2008R2 box, I have several sites setup in IIS. I setup host headers for both www and non www versions. …

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How to stop Asp.net from writing to event log
Not sure if this question belongs to here or serverfault but here you go.
Is it possible to stop asp.net writing event logs? I am already using elmah to log errors anyway

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Get domain & subdomain of server by console application
Let's take one case that i hosted my web application on window server 2008 R2 and one exe (console application) running on that server.
I can access that web application by URI:
..net , is there any way to get subdomain and…

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Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense fix KB958502 does not recognize visual studio 2008 install on windows server 2008 x64
So just this week I had the opportunity to re-build my development machine and I opted to use Windows Server 2008 x64 version for my operating system. I re-installed Visual Studio 2008 along with all of my other development tools. I surprised to see…

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IIS7/2008 Sql/Service Connection Issues
While trying to get a 2008 server to connect to a sql server, I noticed a change in the 2008 IP stack that has me a bit flummoxed. I'm looking for either an OS way to override this, or a programmatic way in .NET to override this.
For the sake of…

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