balexandre's questions

I'm trying without any luck to use NTSysLog in order to grab my network computers Security Logs and send them into a Log Service (Loggly in this case).

I can install and run NTSysLog from a Windows 7 Professional machine

from Loggly I only have Unix related setup help and they specify:

:: Syslog ::

For UDP, put this in /etc/syslog.conf:
     *.*    @logs.loggly.com:46031

To restart:
     /etc/init.d/syslogd restart


:: rsyslog ::

For UDP, put this in rsyslog.conf:
    *.*    @logs.loggly.com:46031

From this, How can I setup a Windows machine correctly without the need of setting up a Linux machine to be the SysLog server from then I would send the messages to the Log Service?

Setting the Primary Syslog Daemon as it shows in the image above, does not log it.

In a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory how can I make sure that each user open login have their Desktop, Documents, Links, Pictures, etc folders set to a shared private folder?

For example, instead of the default C:\Users\<username>\Documents I would like that this would be set automatically to Z:\Documents.

Back in the old days of me being Admin, I recall it's some script set up in the user profile, but I can't remember that well and by using my poor English skills I can't track what to search for this issue.

All users either have Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8 Professional.

I would want to set the out-of-office automatic response to all emails that arrive to our [email protected].

currently in the Outlook, I only have one mailbox (the user mailbox) but it has 2 shared mailboxes setup.

I have tried to create a Rule that says:

• for all email received on account [email protected]
• forward to user [email protected]

and make that user to set up the Out-of-office message, but it simply did not work, and I suspect that the rules only apply to the user account and not the shared account...

How can I set Out-Of-Office in this shared mailbox ?

We have moved our website to wordpress but we do rely on several folders and we already have link and images pointing to the old locations.

for example:

http://domain.com/t/image_001.png

but I do not want to add all images again to the new web location, I would rather set a sub domain and keep them in the same place

How can I redirect

http://domain.com/t/*.* to http://t.domain.com/*.*?

something I need to do in php.ini file? or it's a website configuration?

I have the company's wordpress site under IIS 7.5 (Windows 2008R2 SP1) but I still have file access problems:

Under .NET Websites it's usual the IIS_IUSRS the user used by IIS to perform tasks on behalf of the website user, but is it when using PHP as well?

As you can see I have set the correct permissions to the wp-content folder and all of child folders (I did verify this).

What am I missing?

I'm trying to make a simple web call work in command line mode and what I would like to do is:

1. send a document file to http://domain.com/convert/
2. receive as the response a PDF file

I can see that I can't send a file using curl and download other using the same call, so I was trying to make 2 calls where in the first send I would get an unique identifier that would be used to retrieve the PDF file on the second call.

For example:

@echo off
set var = curl --form upload=@localfilename http://domain.com/send-file.ashx
echo The Unique Identifier is "%var%"
curl http://domain.com/get-file.ashx?id=%var% -O "newfile.pdf"

But I'm getting error upon creating the file:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
Warning: Failed to create the file
Warning: get-file.ashx?id=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 1132)

It seems that it does not care about newfile.pdf and tries to create the file using the same name of the web page...

How would I change my script in order to work?

I already asked this question, with no suitable answer and I get getting the same problem on random servers.

I have an ASP.NET 3.5 application that is deployed using the Setup Project (MSI) and works fine in 90% of the installations, but time to time I found a Windows 2008 Server that has this problem.

I have a simple test that sets a session variable and reads from it.

This never works on Internet Explorer and I do have cookies enabled (for Cookie Session), but:

if I change the url from

http://SERVER_NAME/APP_NAME/ to

http://localhost/APP_NAME/ or http://SERVER_IP/APP_NAME/ everything works!

And I can add that the SERVER_NAME is already in TRUSTED WEBSITES of IE

what can I do to fix this?

Seams, at first sight a DNS problem, but it's a intranet site, as long as the Server has a DNS Server, it should work fine out-of-the-box, correct?

I recreated this problem using HyperV and Windows 2008 R2

Any help is greatly appreciated.

If I host an ASP.NET page with:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>    
<script runat="server">

    protected void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        lbl.Text = HttpContext.Current.Session["a"] == null ? 
                       "null" : 
                       HttpContext.Current.Session["a"].ToString();
    }

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!Page.IsPostBack)
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Session["a"] = "A";
            lbl.Text = "assigned Session Variable";
        }
    }
</script>

<html>
<head>
    <title>Testing Sessions</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:Button ID="btn" runat="server" Text="reload" OnClick="btn_Click" />
        <hr />
        <asp:Label ID="lbl" runat="server" />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

on the first run I do get the assigned Session Variable text, but upon click the Session object is always null

Id there an option I need to turn on/off to use the normal Session Variables ?

works fine on IIS 6.0 and Cassini (under VS 2008 and 2010).

I'm starting to be without ideas on what's going on :o(

Any help is greatly appreciated!

the process of the example page above

More tests shows that this only happens in IE (ie8 in this case), Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome they all give the correct "answer"

check the screen cast of the situation

Where and How can I enable the Virtual Hyper-V Windows 2008 R2 Server Web Console?

The IIS is only set up as the default content, nothing more than that.

Just to avoid using Remote Connection every time I need to start / end a VM.

Thanks.

Using a VM I installed Windows 2008 Server x64 and as the image below shows, added the IIS Role

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and assigned all role features of IIS

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But if I have an ASP.NET (aspx) page that does (C#)

Session["test-session"] = "A";

and read in other page

I always get nothing!

NOTE: I do have an entire ASP.NET web application, the example above is to be succinct and explicit on what is the problem I'm facing.

Can anyone know what do I have to do to the Server, so I can use the Session variables?

All help is greatly appreciated, Thank you

I'm doing Web Applications that are always hosted in IIS (from 6 to 7), and I always have problems in deploying.

The applications work most of the time "out-of-the-box" but sometimes it's just terrible.

Last time, installing it on a IIS 7 where Share Point Server was installed I found out that, even SPS is running in a different WebSite, I needed to remove SPS compression. Other time was about application.config had with 32bit application running as it stopped the AppPool on the 2st request (this article helped) .

I wonder... because the web applications always work with no problems in Visual Studio, can't I aggregate Cassini Web Server and deploy my Web Application just like any other windows application?

Cassini or anything else...

What are your thoughts about it and what can I do to stop having so many problems with some installations?

We use SVN Server from CollabNet and we have a new fellow working with us and I had to create a user/pwd to him...

no problem here.

Question is, How can I make sure that this new user had only access to one branch and not the full SVN structure, not even read permissions, just Read/Write on that branch?

Thank you.

We used to use VisualSVN Server but the GUI does not allow me to set users only to access a folder (branch) :(