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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Batch-file for mysqldump to backup each database into a separate file
Trying to create a batch (cmd) file for backing up each database into a separate file.
Databases are created/deleted often, so batch file needs to grab current db names everytime it runs and backup each one of them.
Here is how I want it to…
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Ruby on Rails on IIS?
I'm writing a Ruby on Rails app that normally runs on Heroku or a Linux Box, but I'd need to deploy it to a Windows Server as well.
The Server is a 64-Bit Win2008 Server with IIS 7.0 installed, so normally I'd prefer using IIS instead of setting up…
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Does IIS 7 have limit of simultaneous requests?
Does IIS 7 have some limit of simultaneous requests? I'm using Windows Server 2008.
Thanks in advance.
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Can the GUI of an RDP session remain active after disconnect
I'm running automated testing procedures that emulates keystrokes and mouseclicks 24/7.
Although it runs fine locally, on an RDP session it stops running once minimized or disconnected. Apparently, the GUI doesn't exist if you can't physically see…
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Need to execute *.exe in server from ASP.net
My current situation is that I need to execute an exe(which creates a local .txt file) in remote server with IIS hosting an ASP.net/C# API. I created a local user(say userA) as admin to run the web service in the remote server but the .txt file was…
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Web setup MSI fails on Windows Server 2008
I have built a web setup project in VS2008 which installs my ASP.NET/Silverlight app into IIS. This works fine everywhere except on Windows Server 2008.
I get this error message in the MSI installer log file:
MSI (c) (C8:D8) [15:02:21:067]: Invoking…
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What is the difference between web.config timeout and IIS timeout?
What is the difference between the following entry in web.config:
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SQL Error "The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views..."
I have a SQL Server error I'm trying to resolve. Could someone please help me out?
The query is:
SELECT TOP 10 *
FROM (
SELECT c.id, c.name, c.inserteddate, c.cityname, ftblstates.name AS statename, clc.name AS catname, '' AS listingimagelogo, ''…
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Capture screen on server desktop session
I have developed a GUI test framework that does integrationtesting of our company website on a scheduled basis. When something fails, it'll take a screenshot of the desktop, among other things. This runs unattended on a logged in user on a dedicated…
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How to run a windows docker container on linux host?
can we run a windows docker container on linux host? also can take a RDP to windows docker container hosted on linux from other windows machines in the same network?
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The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this machine
I have created an ASP.Net application which impersonates the user in order to create an AD group, and then launches a powershell process as the user (separately from the impersonation).
For some reason the group creation works fine and shows as…
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IIS 7.5 web application first request after app-pool recycle very slow
We have our website running on two machines with iis 7.5
One works fine.
The other one how ever takes a really long time to process the first request after an app-pool recycle. It can take upwards of 60secs which is unacceptible since its going to…
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How to detect antivirus on Windows Server 2008 in C#?
I have seen code samples similar to the following numerous times in my search for an answer:
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Management;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
public static bool AntivirusInstalled()
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SchTasks.exe to create a task folder
Is there a command to create a Schedule task folder in Windows 2008? I am trying to use SchTasks.exe to create the tasks and would like to put these tasks under a task folder. Essentially, inside task scheduler, add a new folder and add multiple…
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Installing Tomcat 7 as Service on Windows Server 2008
I want to install my tomcat v7.0.12 as a service on my Windows 2008 Server.
On the tomcat page I found this tutorial. But there isn't a service.bat file in my installation dir.
In the service overview of WS2008 it isn't possible easily create a new…
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