Nils's questions

I have this script where I'm trying to set the IISIntrinsic property for components of an application in Com+ in Component Services.

This is what I'm trying to tick

Here's my powershell script:

$comAdmin = New-Object -comobject COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog

# -- Shut down the running app
$comAdmin.ShutdownApplication("MyAppName")

# -- Loop through components 
$applications = $comAdmin.GetCollection("Applications") 
$applications.Populate() 

foreach ($application in $applications)
{
    if ($application.Name -eq "MyAppName")
    {
        $components = $applications.GetCollection("Components",$application.key)
        $components.Populate()

        foreach ($component in $components)
        {

        # -- Set property
        $component.Value("IISIntrinsics") = $true

        }
        #-- EDIT - ADDING THIS LINE SOLVED THE ISSUE
        $components.SaveChanges()
    }
}

# -- Save and exit 
$applications.SaveChanges()

# -- start the application again
$comAdmin.StartApplication("MyAppName")

Setting IISIntrinsics to true doesn't seem to have any impact.

My feeling is that

• Either $applications.SaveChanges() is the wrong thing to call OR
• The way I'm setting the property is incorrect (I also tried setting it to 1 without success)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've just upgraded a site from an old win 2000 server to a new win 2008 64bit server.

This site accepts image uploads from a desktop application via a POST of XML data where the image is base64 encoded into one of the xml elements. The page that receives the POST data is Classic ASP.

Since moving to the new server, only small images can be uploaded successfully.

Max allowed content length is set to 30000000 bytes. So I should be able to POST just under 30MB.

I can't POST xml of an encoded image of anything around 1mb and higher.

The error occurs when loading the XML on the server-side (this happens using a VB dll).

There was never a problem with large file sizes on the old win 2000 server and this code has not changed.

The error I get is:

Unspecified error
Error Code : -2147467259
File Position : 262165
Line : 3541
Line Position : 56
Source Text : cvr92x0lnpkUw/0gfuvKqXTYYptY8+3q74Jhls7eSfHnfunql4J026mu
URL :

So that looks like the POST is getting cut off somewhere in the middle of the XML.

Any Ideas on what to set apart from the Max allowed content length in IIS - I'm setting that for the site in IIS under Request Filtering.

I'm upgrading an old website and moving everything to new servers and latest software versions.

As part of this upgrade, I need to move a database from a Win2000 server running MS-SQL 7 to a new Win2008 64bit server running MS-SQL 2008.

I've tried to do a database backup and restore during an earlier test run, and SQL 2008 won't restore database backups from version 7.

I was thinking that I could try using BCP to export the data and import it into an empty database with the same schema on the 2008 machine.

Otherwise I could try to install SQL 2000 or SQL 2005 on the new box and restore to that - then either:

• Detach that db and attach it in the sql 2008 engine

OR

• Backup from that DB and restore in 2008

This is a production system so transferring the data will cause the system to be down for a while, but I'd like to keep this to a minimum.

What would be the best way of approaching this upgrade? Any pitfalls to look out for? Should I use the BCP way or the intermediate db version?

I have a multi-tennant website that I'm migrating from IIS5 on Win 2000 to IIS7 on Win Server 2008 64bit.

Every tennant has their own domain name that they point to the application server's IP address.

Then we set up a site in IIS for each domain name and set the physical path to the path where our (classic) ASP files are located.

For each site, I want to set up a default document that runs an ASP file and passes the CompanyID in the querystring.

E.g.
www.site1.com would call Connect.asp?CompanyID=425
www.site2.com would call Connect.asp?CompanyID=426
etc

To achieve this on IIS7, I have a web.config file in the root physical path of the ASP files which looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<location path="www.site1.com">
    <system.webServer>
    <defaultDocument>
        <files>
            <add value="Connect.asp?CompanyID=425" />
        </files>
    </defaultDocument>
    </system.webServer>
</location>
<!-- a location entry for every other website here... -->
<location path=".">
<system.webServer>
    <defaultDocument>
        <files>
            <add value="Connect.asp?CompanyID=1" />
        </files>
    </defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>

This is not working - all the sites are going to the CompanyID=1 entry.

Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong?

I've tried setting the path attribute to

1. the domain name
2. the friendly name of the site in IIS

either way it doesn't work.

I'm upgrading a server that runs a classic asp website from iis5 to iis7

On the old server, there are sites set up that pass a querystring in the default document.
e.g CreateConnection.asp?CompanyID=1

(i.e. Different domain names all point to the same folder and the default document passes the company in the querystring.)

IIS 7 says I can't have a querystring when specifying a default document.

What can I do to get around this? The existing classic asp site works using this method.

EDIT

I've seen some sites recommend setting the default document directly in the web.config file (which would then allow me to specify the querystring), but I have the following questions about that:

I'm going to have a lot of virtual directories pointing to the same place so would there be a web.config file for each VD? If so, then where would these be located?

EDIT 2

following Scott's answer, I found a good article here: Understanding iis7 Configuration Delegation

EDIT 3

I had a lot of difficulty getting this working for my multiple sites pointing to a single physical folder on the web server (i.e. for a multi-tenant app).

If that's what you're after, see this related question: setting the default website for multiple path values in web.config