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I am using msdeploy combined with TeamCity to deploy multiple websites to a test server.

I will intermittently get an error when backing up the old deployed site. The error output is:

Error Code: ERROR_EXCEEDED_MAX_SITE_CONNECTIONS
More Information: The maximum number of connections for this site has been exceeded. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_EXCEEDED_MAX_SITE_CONNECTIONS.
Error count: 1.
Process exited with code -1

Unfortunately, the "learn more at" site does not have any information for the error ERROR_EXCEEDED_MAX_SITE_CONNECTIONS.

The web has many workaround for after the problem occurs. Basically to restart the target server or reset IIS on the target server, etc. It's all about resetting the target to get it to work again.

For my case, I can re-run the deployment and 90% of the time it will work the second time around. However, I don't want to even hit it the first time around. The individuals that use TeamCity to do the deployment don't like the answer "just run it again." They don't want it to fail in the first place. I can understand their desire.

I have tried using the retryCount and retryInterval options. But it still fails intermittenly. It almost feels like a lingering socket issue.

The command being used for the backup is as follows:

msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:iisApp='Default Web Site/<site-name>',ComputerName='https://<server-name>:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=Default%20Web%20Site',UserName=,AuthType='NTLM' -dest:package='D:\_WebDeployBackups\<site-name>\<version-build>-backup.zip',ComputerName='https://<server-name>:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=Default%20Web%20Site',UserName=,AuthType='NTLM' -disableLink:AppPoolExtension -disableLink:ContentExtension -disableLink:CertificateExtension -allowUntrusted -retryAttempts=5 -retryInterval:5000

Does anyone have experience with avoiding this issue? Or, can you suggest ways to debug further?

I've confirmed that there is no issue with disk space.

I have also asked this question in a Microsoft Forum, but no answers there yet.

I am in the process of building out a Windows 2012 server to replace a legacy Windows 2008 server. I am testing a legacy batch script that logs informational or system events under different circumstances. However, the script is failing with the error "Access is denied".

I did some debugging and discovered the failure is with the EVENTCREATE line. Below is an example of the command and it's failure:

C:\SCRIPTS>EVENTCREATE /t WARNING /d "testing" /id 411
ERROR: Access is denied.

If I execute this command as myself (administrator) it works fine. But if one of the users executes it, it fails.

I did google around as well as check stackoverflow and it's sibling sites, and observed that this sort of behavior was reported when the /so parameter is used. However, I am not using the /so parameter.

I've confirmed that the user has access to the EVENTCREATE command. If they invoke it with /? they see the help contents for it.

Is there some sort of group policy permission setting I need to adjust? Something else?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I have a few Windows 2012 servers that I've been tasked with setting up for my developers.

We interact with the servers using RDP.

One of the servers is behaving *very* strangely. If I start internet explorer by:

1. Start
2. Click on IE icon under the start listing

When I do this IE starts but it takes over the *ENTIRE* desktop and has a non-standard appearance -- the address bar is at the bottom and there doesn't seem to be a way to get back to the desktop short of starting the task manager and killing the IE process.

When this happens it looks like the following:

However, I've found that if I start IE by

1. Start
2. Search for Internet
3. Click on the return result

Then IE starts as expected in a window on the desktop in a standard format.

I'm assuming this is some obscure (horrible, IMO) interface that somehow got activated. How do I fix this to behave normally, as a standard desktop window?