Showing posts with label Windows Server 2003. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Server 2003. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2011

ASP .NET 4.0 and IIS 6.0

While doing some work today that involved installing the .NET 4.0 Framework onto Windows Server 2003 then upgrading a web app to use the new framework, I ran into a problem where I would receive 404 Page Not Found errors when trying to load the updated webpages with a browser.  
What I found is that ASP.NET 4.0 doesn't get automatically approved for use within IIS 6.0.  So, to fix, follow the below to allow the ASP.NET v4.0.30319 web service extension

  1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
  2. Expand ServerName on the left
  3. Click Web Service Extensions on the left
  4. Click ASP.NET v4.0.30319 on the right
  5. Click ‘Allow’

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks

Scenario:  I finally got the chance to upgrade a server from a Windows 2003 Software based RAID 1 (mirror) to a Hardware based RAID array.  The problem that I didn't foresee, is that after breaking the software RAID,  cloning the original disk partitions to the new RAID array using Clonezilla, the Windows installation didn't like the fact that it was now presented with Basic Disks that were in fact still formatted as Dynamic Disks.  After looking for details on the Blue Screen I was receiving on boot, I finally realised what the problem was and this fairly quickly led to the discovery of this blog post...
This method uses a nice little piece of software called TestDisk.  I'm not exactly sure what it does to the partition tables, or what ever is being modified, but it works, and does it very quickly!  
Anyway, I hope that this gets spread around and eventually helps someone out.  
L8a!