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Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

Ramon Smits — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:57:59 GMT

Anyone will get this message sooner or later so the normal steps I usually do are:

Check if I have read/execute permissions on the file

Check if it is blocked because it is an internet download and then unblock it

Check if I'm the owner

Well today I did this on a file that I downloaden on server A, copied to a storage server and then copying it to server B to run it again. I got this message and did the steps above without any success.

The almighty google helped me again but not in the first few hits on the error. It guided me to a forum where the solution was posted to the message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

"Un-install IE Enhanced security from Windows Components. Viola problem gone"

I tried it and I can now execute those files although it should have worked as all security attributes on the file where set correctly. Very weird...

My list of firefox extensions

Ramon Smits — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:31:58 GMT

Firefox is my default browser and the add-ons make it even more powerful then it already is. I thought that it would be nice to share which extensions I'm using:

NoScript - Easily enable java/javascript/flash per domain.
Adblock Plus - Hide those frustrating flash ads etc.
ChatZilla - Open an IRC link to ask a tech question in seconds.
Firebug - Tweak your html, JavaScript and CSS at run-time.
YSlow - Measure the load times of the website your developing.
FoxyProxy - Easily switch between proxy servers or automatically per domain.
Web Developer - Show the lay-out of a website with/without CSS and w3c validate it in seconds.
Foxmarks - Synchronizes all my bookmarks between various computers at work and at home.

The best thing is is that most add-ons work perfect in both Linux and Windows so I have the same surf experience in both worlds.

So which add-ons do you recommend?

Installing Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

Robin Paardekam — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:11:00 GMT

I tried installing MOSS2007 onto my freshly installed Windows Server 2008 machine but unfortunately I received an incompatibility exception, not allowing me to continue installation. This will probably be fixed soon, maybe with a Sharepoint update of some kind, but for now if you want to perform such an installation you'll have to slipstream the Windows Sharepoint Services Service Pack 3 and Office Sharepoint Server Service Pack 1 into the MOSS2007 setup-folder before starting the actual installation. I never had to perform such a slipstream-operation, but using the following screencast it was done within a few minutes. It's all about unpacking the service packs into the (already existing) updates-folder within the setup-folder of MOSS2007. Doing that will cause the installation to continue where it failed before. Easy as that!

I used the screencast just because it is very easy to follow and it only takes 8 minutes or so, but if you know how to extract an installer into a specific folder then you're actually done already.

Connecting to IIS 7.0 websites from Visual Studio (2005/2008)

Robin Paardekam — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:04:00 GMT

Yeterday I installed Windows Server 2008 Standard onto my "web/file/print/email/media server" at home. Installation went super smooth, configuration was quite intuitive. After I installed all components and the basic configurations were done I tried to setup some of my websites. The problems I experienced doing so:

By default, ASP.Net sites can not be visited "Anonymously". You'll have to define users for each .Net enabled website before they are shown to your anonymous visitors. Error pages are improved BTW, looks a lot nicer if you ask me.
Connecting to my sites using Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 from my regular workstation does not work. On Server 2003 I simply enabled Frontpage Server Extensions 2002 (FPSE) for each website, which was enough to connect to it from Visual Studio directly. Now in Server 2008 that's different. I did not do much with IIS 7 in Vista, so I am not used to the new IIS yet. I tried searching for FPSE there but without success. Then I found some answers using Google: FPSE is no longer supported! So how can I then connect to my sites directly from another location using Visual Studio!? There seems to be a strange unsupported fix for it, which I did not yet manage to get working on my server. I did get the Administration pages visible after installation, which state FPSE are indeed extended, but I did not yet manage to connect from Visual Studio. I will try some more later this week and will add any updates on this blog-post

2008/02/16 21:54 - As promised, here is an update regarding connecting to my Windows Server 2008 webserver, running IIS 7.0 and FPSE 2002 (as linked above). I just installed Active Directory Domain Services and DNS Server (because I will also be hosting MS Exchange on that machine), rebooted and voila! Connecting from my workstation (VS 2005) to my websites on Server 2008 magically works again! So either adding DNS or AD fixed my problem!