Wednesday, January 21, 2009

SQL Server Reporting Services - Required 32-bit ASP.Net to install Microsoft Reporting Services 2005(32-bit).

This warning message comes up installing reporting services 32-bit on a 64-bit server. My first pass at installing this on Windows 2008 did not work. My answer was to install reporting services 64-bit instead.

 

64-bit installs

Installing Reporting Services on 64-bit Computers

32-bit installs

How to- Install 32-bit Reporting Services on a 64-bit Computer

How to- Install 32-bit Reporting Services on Windows Vista

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

IIS Virtual Directory - 404 for all files and browsing

This issue causes the any file or directory browsing to this virtual directory return an http error 404. If this is an application enabled directory I found if you rename your application folder and create a new folder with the previous name. Then go to IIS and delete the application enabled folder which will cause your new folder to go to the recycle bin and also deletes the application for the IIS metabase. If it is a virtual directory you can delete it and add it again. An easier way might exist but this seems to do the trick.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Exchange 2007 - Error: An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found.

Appear that the Windows service Microsoft Exchange System Attendant after an install will be stopped. The error An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found comes from this service not running.

Can run this from the run dialog or command line.

net start MSExchangeSA

or start the service Microsoft Exchange System Attendant

This fix will stop symtoms that appear in KB927481. The one that I noticed was this one while adding new accounts to outlook 2007

The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927481

Saturday, January 10, 2009

IIS Virtual Directory - Cannot create a file when that file already exists

The issue started with an application enabled folder where any file you tried to browse to would return a 404. If you renamed this folder you couldn't rename it back to its old name. The error you get is Cannot create a file when that file already exists. This issue was not that folder already existed. I couldn't find anything that would have caused this. I opened up the metabase c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml and found the directory node with the old folder name. (Always backup your metabase when you directly edit it)