Skipton Systems Weblog

Yesterday, we launched a new website for our client Sean Lockyear Specialist Cars.  The site address is www.seanlockyear.co.uk.

The site is powered by the Skipton Systems Content Management Solution, which allows Sean to edit his own web content.

As well as the standard CMS, we have developed a new, bespoke web application for this project.  This web application will officially be launching as a new product in a week or two after some small tweaks.  More information will be provided then, but we are very excited about this!

As we’ve mentioned before, SkiptonSystems is a Sophos Silver partner.

Sophos Antivirus Silver Partner

Sophos allows potential clients to download trial versions of their award-winning antivirus / anti-spam and client firewall products.  For more information, please visit our website.

SkiptonSystems was featured in the business section of the Craven Herald this week.

The article was written because we are currently celebrating our first year in business, and also the way the company has grown beyond our wildest expectations.  The article was very positive, including a small interview with myself.

The new Access Protection Ltd was launched today at www.accessprotection.com.

SkiptonSystems designed and built the website, with a great deal of input from the guys at Access Protection, who knew exactly what they wanted it to look and feel like.  The close relationship between the two businesses was a great success.  It helped that our offices are less than 50m from each other!

The new site features a Content Management System that allows staff to upload/edit/delete their own product datasheets, a Flash introduction page and a JQuery product scroller.

For more information on Skipton Systems weg design and development, see our website.

We had an interesting error this morning.  A client called to say that they had upgraded a bit of software (a web application hosted on their SBS 2003 server), and were now getting a .NET error:

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.EnterpriseServices.Wrapper.dll’

After some searching around, we managed to fix the error by copying the %systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.EnterpriseServices.dll to the GAC.

Instructions:

GAC is located at C:\WINDOWS\assembly.  You will need to open 2 windows explorer to do drag and drop, as there is no ‘paste’ once you ‘copy’ from it.  Simply drag the System.EnterpriseServices.dll file from the source folder (%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.EnterpriseServices.dll) to the GAC ( C:\WINDOWS\assembly).

We recently came across a problem whereby whenever anyone tried to access a share (or mapped drive) on our server, a message saying “Not enough server storage is available to process this command.” was displayed.  After some rooting around, we discovered that this was down to installing Acronis TrueImage on theserver.  Apparently, the same thing happens with Norton Ghost.

The Fix:

The two messages you are likely to get are:

• Not enough server storage is available to process this command.
• Not enough memory to complete transaction. Close some applications and retry.

To repair it, you have to create or increase the IRPStackSize parameter in the registry of the computer that has the shared folder (the server).  Open the Registry Editor (Run -> regedit) and browse to the following value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Services
\LanmanServer
\Parameters

Check for the presence of the value named IRPStackSize. If it doesn’t exist, create it as type DWORD.  With base set to decimal, enter the value 16 or higher (15 is the default, so entering 15 should have the same effect as removing that value altogether).  We found that a value of 20 did the trick.

Reboot the computer (or restart the Server service).

You can also check out this Microsoft Knowledge article:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078/

We have a Windows 2003 server in the office, with Apache installed to run test sites on.  However, we wanted to install Exchange 2003, which meant installing IIS 6 onto the machine as well.  We had added multiple IP addresses to the server so that IIS could have one and Apache could have another (so they could both run on port 80).  However, we ran into the problem that IIS was taking control of all IP addresses on port 80 and so Apache wouldn’t start. It seems that IIS 6 has a “feature” called Socket Pooling that claims all ports for all loaded IP address (even if not configured in IIS).  So IIS had control of the port 80 on the IP address we had assigned to Apache.

Workaround:

1. Extract the httpcfg.exe utility from the support tools area on the Win2003 CD.
2. Stop all IIS services:  net stop http /y
3. Have IIS listen only on the IP address I’d designated for IIS:  httpcfg set iplisten -i 192.168.1.253:80
4. To test:  httpcfg query iplisten (the ip’s listed are the only ip addresses that IIS will be listening on)
5. Restart IIS Services:  net start w3svc
6. Start Apache service

Now, Apache and IIS6 co-exist on the same server, both listening on port 80.