HI! I finally managed to get access to Windows 2008. It seems that the tools available are different but the basic approach of my previous article still works. Only difference is that you need to use a command tool called appcmd to perform the migration. The details can be found in my new article below...

REFURBISHED COMPUTER FROM HELL -- Joy Systems (Says its Version is 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600) However has not ever seemed to have SP3!! PROBLEM: Microsoft Updates wants me to install the following: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP 3 (KB955706) (upgrades all MS SQL Server 2005 Express...

All, I've setup a test web site in IIS 6.0 for our production site on a different Windows 2003 server. This site uses classic ASP. I used a non-standard port for the site. Along the way, I needed to change the port of the test site to a different non-standard port. The default page is loading just...

I'm new to IIS, and currently supporting an application running on IIS v6.0. We are getting the '413' error and trying to resolve it by setting the UploadReadAheadSize. I noticed there are 2 IIsWebServer tags in the metabase.xml file. 1st one has location="/LM/W3SVC/1", 2nd one...

Hi, I am having problems trying to work out if it is possible to share iis session timouts accross web applications in the following scenario: - In my environment there are 2 IIS Web Servers on the same network domain. One of the servers will host a .NET web application. The other will host a COTS document...

Hi j3rky, I found some more hints: 1. If you have severe errors in your php.ini, it gets logged in the event log, e.g. PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '[..]\ext\php_mbstring.dll' - The specified procedure could not be found. 2. I found some helpings on IIS6 and PHP5 with...

Hi, Our company set up a aplication which uses IIS 6.0.The Exact scenario is like this :- AppServer is having IIS Installed. The Virtual directory on the application server is pointing to resources which is kept on Cluster Drive on Remote Network Computer. Now my question is, Is it really needed to do...

Hi, Please install the PHP and configuration of the Windows path location you flowing the this link http://php5configuration.blogspot.com/

Hi everyone, I am running PHP 5.2.5 with IIS6 on a Windows 2003 Server. For a project I'm working on I've had to activate a few extensions in the php.ini (uncomment the 'extension=php_xxx.dll' under the "Dynamic Extensions" section). I can see that the modifications are applied...

OK I cracked it ! I had to explicity tell the server that it was allowed to forward mail generated by itself. So in this case: Server 1 forwarding to server 2. Server 1 had to have 127.0.0.1 in its allowed list in the relay settings. I don't remember it being that way in previous versions, but hey...