Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Nektar — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:44:36 GMT

The other day I was trying to administer or just author web page running as non-admin for FrontPage 2002 Server Extentions. It was impossible for me to achieve this. When running as local admin everything worked but when running as a normal user I would get the logon dialog and whatever password I would enter it would not log me into FrontPage Server. I got so frastrated that I remove FP 2002 Server Extentions.

More automation (Virtual Server and IIS)

Brain.Save() — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:49:55 GMT

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Matt — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:13:55 GMT

Can you share your commandline VS admin tool written in WMI?

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David.Wang — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:14:53 GMT

I do not have a WMI-based commandline VS admin tool to share.

If you have specific questions about how to script Virtual Server Administration, I can try and answer that.

//David

"Page cannot be found" when trying to connect to VSWebApp.exe

Dmitry Polyakovsky — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:11:02 GMT

I installed Virtual Server 2005 Standard edition Win XP Pro SP2 and keep
getting this error when I browse to
http://localhost/VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe?view=1 .
I am logged in as Administrator.
I uninstalled and re-installed but no luck.
Virtual Server virtual web directory is located under Default WebSite in
IIS. The virtual web folder points to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual
Server\WebSite\VirtualServer\ where VSWebApp.exe is present.

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name
changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:

a.. If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that
it is spelled correctly.

b.. Open the localhost home page, and then look for links to the
information you want.
c.. Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Information (for support personnel)

a.. More information:
Microsoft Support

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

cognitivecharm — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:02:09 GMT

Hi there ...
i have a problem like i am not able access com api from vb6 ... or more specifically none of the function supported by IVMVirtualServer works ...
i have included the refrence required that i needed to refer com api thru vb ...

the error i get (say findvirtualmachine) is
Run-Time Error -214703550 (80070542):
Method FindVirtualMachine of object IVMVirtualMachine failed

even i get the same error in python com

am i missing something like initiating the server ...
i dont know what it is .. and even the com api doc at msdn isn't much helping

one more thing ... these thing with vbscript works absolutely fine ...

i hope u can sort out my prob or may build me a way to tackle the problem

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David Wang — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:03:40 GMT

cognitivecharm - 0x80070542 translates into:
1. an error - the highest order bit in the first number is 1 (0x8 = 0b1000)
2. in Win32 - that is what the 0x007 means
3. of 0x0542 = 1346 decimal.

NET HELPMSG 1346 gives:
"Either a required impersonation level was not provided, or the provided impersonation level is invalid."

Documentation on MSDN is not going to help much because it is documentation on how to use technology, not how to troubleshoot it. In other words, MSDN documentation assumes you got things working.

At this point, you say that the COM interface from VBScript works perfectly fine, so it does not look like anything is wrong from the COM nor Virtual Server side of things. I do not know the syntax to import COM TLB into VB6 nor whether there are special requirements to having it work in VB...

Sorry, I really can't help much further other than to say it definitely works in JScript/VBScript, VB.Net, and C/C++.

//David

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Biffer — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:31:26 GMT

I'm also having trouble under Python com, and it's really irritating the hell out of me. I've got jscript and vbscript working fine. So I thought I'd be clever, and invoke a dispatch interface to the script control (from Python), and feed the lines one-by-one to the jscript interpretter. Bam! this blows up too... Doh!

It seems you can get an object instance, but the moment you call any methods on it you get a COM exception (-2147352567)

If the same problem happens in VB6 this is interesting, implying it's not simply a problem with pythoncom as I'd suspected.

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Mahokka — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:51:01 GMT

Hi everybody :-)

This message is for Dmitry Polyakovsky: I don't know if it's too late or not (somehow) and if you've already gotten the answer to your problem, but I had the same one and to resolve it, I wrote the loopback address (127.0.0.1) in the url instead of "localhost". For me it worked so much better like that ;-).

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Barney — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT

re the 0x80070542 err - if you get this from a remote machine, its because your default dcom is set at identity - to verify - component services/Computers/My Computer - Properties/Default Properties/Default Impersonate = Impersonate ... and try again

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Benjamin — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:57:53 GMT

Sharing files with host on Virtual server 2005.

I would like to be able to share files with the host operating system. Just normal textfiles which i need to transfer between virtual server and the host.

I installed the loopback adapter and used this as network adapter for a virtual network. When running the virtual server i am still not able to acces the host file system. I am not even able to ping the host from the virtual server and vice versa.

I am not able to browse whe opening IE

Any suggestions on what to do?

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David.Wang — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:11:28 GMT

Benjamin - In general, I suggest reading and following the Virtual Server documentation on how to setup the loopback adapter and general networking documentation.

One of the most common mistakes (after not creating a Virtual Network bound to the Loopback and configuring the Guest to use a Virtual NIC bound to this Virtual Network) is to fail to have the Loopback adapter on the Host and Virtual NIC in the Guest on the same TCP/IP Segment - i.e. basic networking 101.

In other words:
- set up the Loopback Adapter on the Host to have the following Static IP:
192.168.1.1
255.255.255.0
- set up the Virtual NIC inside the Guest to have the following Static IP:
192.168.1.2
255.255.255.0

And you should now be able to communicate from Host to Guest via 192.168.1.2 and Guest to Host with 192.168.1.1

As for ability to browse the Internet with IE from the Guest - that is a separate network routing issue.

I suggest visiting the Virtual Server Newsgroup because these are frequently asked questions and full-answers exist - use either NNTP reader like Outlook Express or Web-based reader:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/community/default.mspx

//David

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Carrie McLeish — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:54:52 GMT

My company is deploying exchange server 2003 Enterprise on six different virtual servers for six different forests. What are some of the pitfalls when doing this? I have read documentation supporting and not supporting exchange on VS 2005. What are your thoughts?

Thanks,

Carrie McLeish

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David.Wang — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:16:04 GMT

Carrie - since Exchange is heavily disk IO intensive and Virtual Machines do not help disk IO, I am not certain of the rationale to deploy Exchange on Virtual Machine.

I believe Exchange 2003 SP1 is supported on Virtual Server 2005. This stuff is all documented on microsoft.com website, and you can also query microsoft.public.virtualserver newsgroup/community.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/community/default.mspx

//David

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

NickB — Fri, 12 May 2006 18:29:36 GMT

This article answered my question perfectly in all respects but one - How to install without IIS. Clearly you do not need to use IIS to adminsister virutal server, but the tool you decribe - VSWebApp.exe - is contained within the executable download and you do not seem to be able to extract it without running the install. Here's the Gotcha - the install won't run unless you have IIS running.
Seems to me that means I need to install IIS in order to extract the file I want to use to run against my Apache server... no?
Any workaround greatly appreciated. NickB

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David.Wang — Sat, 13 May 2006 06:48:53 GMT

NickB - Ah, I see. Then, your comment is really just a complaint about the requirements of installing the VSWebApp.exe component.

Virtual Server installs without IIS. Just don't check the WebApp component on installation and IIS is not required. I install Virtual Server like this all the time.

To avoid the requirements of the VSWebApp component, I wrote my own VS admin script which depends only on JScript and VS2005, so I can install and administer VS2005 perfectly without IIS installed anywhere at any time.

Of course, if you *want* to use VSWebApp.exe, then you obviously need to install the WebApp component and meet its requirements.

Since that component ties the file VSWebApp.exe with the configuration of IIS, it is impossible to install/extract it without IIS running. Personally, I see no problems with this requirement since it is what is tested and supported.

Even if it is possible, running VSWebApp.exe on Apache is not a supported scenario, so even if you have to do something contorted like first install IIS, then install VS to extract VSWebApp.exe, then uninstall IIS, and finally configure VSWebApp.exe on Apache, that seems fine to me -- it comes with the territory of being "unsupported".

Because if Apache or commandline support support was intended, VS2005 Setup would probably be changed into :
+ Administration
+-+ Install VSWebApp.exe
+- Add IIS Configuration
+- Add Apache Configuration

So that you can pick to install VSWebApp.exe as-is, without IIS installed. That is the meaning of "supported" and "by-design".

Of course, if you know how to tweak MSI, you can author what I just described into the existing VS2005 MSI, and then you CAN just extract VSWebApp.exe without everything else. But that advanced discussion is for another time...

//David

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NickB — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:42:37 GMT

Errr... Thanks, I think. I suspect your underlying assumption is that I was hoping for a quick and easy solution. And you would be right. I do not like the bundling approach which is taken in this instance, and as I am already running Apache on Wintel for a number of other reasons I guess I am just going to have to put some effort in. C'est la Vie! Thanks again. NickB

Perspectives on Design and Support

David Wang — Sat, 13 May 2006 23:45:46 GMT

I started typing this as a response to this blog entry and then decided that I was investing a little...

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David.Wang — Sat, 13 May 2006 23:47:19 GMT

My response started to get a bit too long, so I made it a blog entry.

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2006/05/13/Perspectives_on_Design_and_Support.aspx

//David

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Eviltesdall — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:32:52 GMT

if you wish to install the VS without having IIS running just do not do a complete install do a CUSTOM install and remove the IIS portion.

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Tony Ko — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:50:52 GMT

please help me, i have deleted the default site on iis and now when i install virtual server it wont add itself to iis. ive added a new site and by right clicking it, ive added virtualserver as an new application.. now when i go to my link it just downloads the exe instead of running it.. i cant access web admin now. how do i get it to work?

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Tony Ko — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:51:41 GMT

ive also tried installing it after ive made the new site, but it still wont work >< help!

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

David.Wang — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:18:35 GMT

Tony - If the issue is with downloading vs running an EXE, then this is your misconfiguration:
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/07/11/Allow_file_downloads_on_IIS_6.aspx

If you want to how to duplicate what VS Setup does for IIS admin website configuration, then I suggest asking the microsoft.public.virtualserver newsgroup:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.virtualserver

//David

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Ed — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:44:22 GMT

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mitthu — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:51:29 GMT

I want to customize the Microsoft virtual server, what i want is the admin gui page it shows I want to customize that like I want to create 4 VirtualMachine at a time by running a VB script ,can u provide that script to me which take input for creating many VMs at atime.

please provide me the script. thanks
mithu_manoj@yahoo.com

re: Ins and Outs of Virtual Server 2005 Administration and IIS

Trabajo Basura — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:24:16 GMT

Yo don't need it, but it makes your life easier

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Peter Gu — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:43:43 GMT

Thanks to Barney, I solved the 0x80070542 problem by running dcomcnfg and change the default impersonate configuration. Thanks!