Questions tagged [windows-server-2008]

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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Redis server can't run more than 1024M maxheap

I am running Redis 2.8.19 on Windows Server 2008. I get an error saying that I have insufficient disc space for my Redis heap. (The memory mapping file instead of fork()). I can only get Redis running, if I have 'maxheap 1024M' in the cfg, even…
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How do I run a Play Framework 2.0 application as a Windows service?

I have a Play Framework 2.0 application that I want to deploy (production) on Windows Server 2008 R2. How do I get it to run as a service?
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Why does %TEMP% resolve to a non-deterministic path of the form %TEMP\?

I have a Windows Server 2008 32 bit and when I'm typing %temp% it takes me to ..AppData\Local\Temp\1\ or ..AppData\Local\Temp\2 instead of ..AppData\Local\Temp I've already checked the Environment Variables and they are ok. I'm asking that because I…
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The MSDTC transaction manager was unable to pull the transaction from the source transaction manager due to communication problems

I have hosted my WebApp on server 1 and my database on server 2 But I'm getting following error Communication with the underlying transaction manager has failed. I googled and found a post which mentioned that it is the issue of DTC(Distributed…
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WCF .NET 4.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2

In Windows Server 2008 R2, I cannot activate WCF Http/Tcp Activation windows features for .net 4.5 from Server Manager Server manager in Windows Server 2008 R2 does not support .net 4.5, even though .net 4.5 can be installed and used in IIS in…
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ASP.Net Com-InterOp Excel Generation issue when hosting

In my ASP.Net application I'm generating a Excel file using MsExcel Object Libby (Com-InterOp) . The application worked fine in the VS dev. environment. But when I host it in the server I'm getting following error, if I'm no user is logged in to the…
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How do you install files in the assembly in Windows Server 2008?

Typically what I used to do is drag and drop the files onto the GAC folder. This works in Windows 2000 & 2003, however when I try to do this in Windows Server 2008 I get 'Access is denied'. The user that is doing this is a local administrator. The…
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Shutdown Error in RabbitMq sasl Log

We are running RabbitMq 3.6.2 with Erlang 17.4 on Windows Server 2008. We see the following record over and over in the sasl log. It is occurring sparratically (every few hours) with no particular pattern. =SUPERVISOR REPORT====…
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Windows Server 2008 as development machine - step by step

I have found many tutorials about using Windows Server 2003 as a development machine, and very little information about Windows Server 2008 for the same purpose. For a nicer experience, I have followed the steps from Convert your Windows Server 2008…
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IIS7 give ApplicationPoolIdentity access to a network location

I have a site in IIS7 that runs under ApplicationPoolIdentity. Is it possible to give the ApplicationPoolIdentity access to network files? I know that I can give access to local files by giving rights to the user: iisapppool\{apppoolname} but is…
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Max tcp/ip connections on Windows Server 2008

I have .Net service that listens on single port over TCP protocol. Clients connect and then transmit data for some time (from few minutes to several hours). Is there any limit on number of connections on Windows 2008 server? I did not hit any,…
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Run multiple sites from one IP in IIS

I have a box with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, and I'm using an ASP.NET app. I am trying to run multiple sites from one IP, but I can't access the sites from the outside. I can only access the Default website from outside but when I want to…
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No ASP.NET features shown in IIS 7.5

I'm having an issue in IIS 7.5 where the ASP.NET feature section isn't showing on my web application. My environment: Windows 2008 R2 SP1, IIS 7.5 (7.5.7600), .NET Framework 4.0 My issue is similar to the issue posted here: No asp.net features on…
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My script won't run under the task scheduler. Why?

I have a vbscript script that I runs fine when I am running it myself. For some reason, when I run it under the task scheduler as an administration user, it runs, but doesn't even write to my log file. It shouldn't be permissions, as the user I run…
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Windows 2008 server task scheduler does not run .bat batch job

I have a batch file on a Windows 2008 server that, when invoked from command line works fine. However, when I set a scheduled task to run this job, it does not work properly. The task scheduler does show that that the task is getting run at regular…