I need CLI for our asp.net mvc application to perform maintenance tasks and some status tasks.
I think powershell is designed to provide CLI. But i do not know anything about it other than name.
How can i host powershell in asp.net mvc running in iis to provide CLI for custom tasks?
I have a couple of powershell command that are very simple.
disable-mailbox dadelgad -confirm:$false
enable-mailbox -identity 'dadelgad' -database 'NET5014DB10' -Alias 'dadelgad'
The first command is to disable an exchange mailbox and the second enables the mailbox. I am logged in as a user who is in the Organization Management group which has full admin priviledges to Exchange but is not a domain admin. If I run these commands directly in Powershell, they work fine but they do not work when called from C#.
I created a very simple windows forms app that has a couple of buttons that invokes these commands from C# code. Running the app as the user with full Exchange right, most commands work with no problem such as get-mailbox -identity 'dadelgad'. I can set flags in Exchange, add alias emails and do most functions but I cannot disable or enable an account.Do I need to be a domain admin to do these functions. It almost seems like a permission issue but the user has full rights to Exchange and can perform both of these commands directly in Powershell.
Any way to scheduled tasks on a shared hosting? So like I can send email every two hours.
View 4 RepliesWe have a timer process (a JQuery plugin) that redirects after X number of minutes to the login page, all via JavaScript. When the timer hits zero, I want to run a task (could be anything; however, in this specific scenario, it's a web service call).
So the process does:
if (zeroedOut) {
window.setTimeout(function() {
//Run finish-up processes
}, 0);
window.location = "login.aspx";
}
The issue I'm having is the web service that runs with the finish-up processes is not being called. The web service call happens, the redirect happens, I don't see any errors (I have try/catch statements around the setTimeout call), but no WS call.
I would like to makea windows service. whenever the user of my ASP.NET application has to do a time-consuming task, the IIS would give the task to the service which will return a token(a temporary name for the task) and in the background the service would do the task. At anytime, the user would see the status of his/her task which would be either pending in queue, processing, or completed. The service would do a fixed number of jobs in parallel, and would keep a queue for the next-incoming tasks. In addition there would be a WinForms application for system administrator that would allow adding special ADMIn tasks such as "Clean orphaned files" or "archive data of inactive users".
Can you point me to something that can jump start me on this as a whole concept - I know I can google for windows services and I am able to do it myself from scratch but time is of the Essence so maybe you know of something that is already there and i can use block to build out of.
I'm looking for ways to improve a web page that initiates a long-running (>2 minutes) server-side task. The current version of the page just clocks for the full duration of the task, which can be very frustrating to the user.
I already have a few ideas about how I could improve the user's experience, but they all would involve the use of AJAX to some extent. Because of previous experiences that I've had on this project, I know that not all users have JavaScript enabled or available.
Assuming that the server-side process has already been optimized as much as possible, what else could I do to improve the experience of all users as much as possible?
I need to invoke a long running task from an ASP.NET page, and allow the user to view the tasks progress as it executes.
In my current case I want to import data from a series of data files into a database, but this involves a fair amount of processing. I would like the user to see how far through the files the task is, and any problems encountered along the way.
Due to limited processing resources I would like to queue the requests for this service.
I have recently looked at Windows Workflow and wondered if it might offer a solution?
I am thinking of a solution that might look like:
ASP.NET AJAX page -> WCF Service -> MSMQ -> Workflow Service *or* Windows Service
I have an application that I use to run Exchange Powershell commands inside C# code like below. This is an example of the relevant lines I use to run the powershell command.
RunspaceConfiguration rsConfig = RunspaceConfiguration.Create();
PSSnapInException snapInException = null;
//load Exchange shell
rsConfig.AddPSSnapIn("Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010", out snapInException);
Runspace runSpace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(rsConfig);
//open runspace
runSpace.Open();
//setup pipeline
Pipeline pipeLine = runSpace.CreatePipeline();
String sScript = "get-mailbox -identity 'rj'";
//add script to pipeline
pipeLine.Commands.AddScript(sScript);
//run the script
pipeLine.Invoke();
pipeLine.Dispose();
This code works perfect in all cases until now. the script I am trying to run instead of the one above is to set the RetentionPolicy for a mailbox. The script I am trying to run looks like this: Set-Mailbox -Identity 'rj' -RetentionPolicy 'Main Campus Retention Policy' When I run this in powershell itself it works perfectly but when I try to run it using the code below I get the error, "Cannot invoke this function because the current host does not implement it."
From this error, it almost seems like the command that runs in C# cannot run the RetentionPolicy command but that doesn't make much sense. I have Googled this and tried everything suggested but no luck.
I have just started to look at the new "System.Threading.Tasks" goodness in .Net 4.0, and would like to know if there is any build in support for limiting the number of concurrent tasks that run at once, or if this should be manually handled.
E.G: If I need to call a calculation method 100 times, is there a way to set up 100 Tasks, but have only 5 execute simultaneously? The answer may just be to create 5 tasks, call Task.WaitAny, and create a new Task as each previous one finishes. I just want to make sure I am not missing a trick if there is a better way to do this.
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I want to create a custom control where I define several specifically named DIV sections. The code-behind logic of the custom control will perform operations on these named DIV sections. The page where the custom control is hosted needs to be able to add named controls to the DIV sections and perform operations on these named controls added to the DIV sections.
Let me explain a little further. In the custom control, I want to have code behind logic that fires the following Page Event and uses a condition to make one or another specifically named DIV section visible or not:
< _
ToolboxData("<{0}:BaseDetails runat=""server""></{0}:BaseDetails>") _
> _
Public Class BaseDetails
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how can I create a custom control which is able to generate the named DIV sections "DetailsNameDiv1" and "DetailsNameDiv2" where my custom control can check a condition and make one or the other visible. Also, I need to be able to add controls to these named DIV sections when I host the custom control and the control that I add to the named DIV section needs to let me set values of these controls from the code behind logic of the page (or usercontrol) where the custom control is being hosted (in my example, I am adding TextBox controls that I want to set the Text property from a SQL Data Reader).
I have an application in the root. I setup BlogEngine to run in a directory of the account. There is a web config in root and another one in the directory. If I have a Web.Config in the root, then I can run application but not the blog. However, if Idisable the root web.conf then the blog will work and, as expected, the application will not work. How can I get both to work without having to integrate the Blog and the Appication? I understand this is a common problem in GoDaddy's hosting account. Has anyone found a solution?
View 3 RepliesI want to run my asp.net site over my php hosting server/
In other words i want to run my site over apachi server
I used visual webdeveloper 2008 express edition to make a new WCF Service Application.If I test it on my pc it works perfectly , But if I publish it to my shared hosting site I get this erroris has a BuildProviderAppliesToAttribute attribute which includes the value 'Web' or 'All'.
View 1 Repliessome differences hosting a website on some remote server VS running it locally on dev environment.The reason why i am asking is, If I run my website locally it works fine no exceptions, runs smooth. But when deployed on a remote hosting server. Its like a nightmare to me :(very often i get object Instance not set to instance of object..... I am ok with the error message, But the same situation should happen locally,
View 6 RepliesI want to create Plugins or add ons for my application which provide search logic like google..
in asp.net is there any possibility then give me a answer>>
I have a windows shared hosting and i need to run some scheduled c# executable every day for create sitemap, send newsletter,etc...The provider tell me that i can't run executable for security reason.Whay can i do?The provider suggest me to buy a VPS, but do not think it makes sense to spend more money just to run some scheduled task.
View 3 RepliesI set up a really simple custom membership provider for my website, it is on shared hosting with 123reg which operate in medium trust mode. Due to this the membership provider throws an error. how it would work on medium trust on shared hosting? The hosting doesnt allow me to set the applications trust mode either.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to write an asp program to automate some tasks in the office - namely creating a mail-enabled contact. The code is:
RunspaceConfiguration runspaceConfig = RunspaceConfiguration.Create();PSSnapInException PSException = null;PSSnapInInfo info = RunspaceConfig.AddPSSnapIn("Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Admin", out PSException);Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(runspaceConfig);runspace.Open();Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline();Command command = new Command("New-MailContact");command.Parameters.Add("Name", "TestName");command.Parameters.Add("ExternalEmailAddress", "testname@testdomain.com");command.Parameters.Add("OrganizationalUnit",
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It seems like ASP.NET WebMethods are not "web servicey" enough to work with New-WebServiceProxy. Or maybe it is, and I haven't figured out how to initialize it?
So instead, I tried doing it manually, like so:
$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials
$url = "http://www.domenicdenicola.com/AboutMe/SleepLog/default.aspx/GetSpans"
$postData = "{`"starting`":`"/Date(1254121200000)/`",`"ending`":`"/Date(1270018800000)/`"}"
$result = $wc.UploadString($url, $postData)
But this gives me "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error." So I must be doing something slightly wrong.
how to call my PageMethod from PowerShell, and not get an error?
A customer wants us to create an ajax-enabled web application that can be used to manage their IT environment (Active directory, mail, file security, ...). However, as the team that will support the web application does not know anything about these IT systems, they would like to split the coding so that all interfacing with the IT environment is done via PowerShell, which is known by the administrators of these systems. This would mean that if new functionality is required, the web team can just create an additional web page and interface and use PowerShell scripts that get created by technically skilled people in that specific topic (ie mail administrators). I don't see an issue using this approach for requests like adding a user where latency is not an issue, but I do wonder if this is feasible for interactive content with Ajax.
Ie I would like to implement a google suggest like search for AD users. This would mean that ie for every x keystrokes (or x seconds whatever approach I implement) an Ajax request will be made and the web application or web service will than use PowerShell to get the data. Taken into account that up to about 75 users can use this feature, is this something that would work? Not only performace-wise but also the number of connections (I read about the Powershell 5 remote session limit but also that it could be put to a higher number)? The example above is probably the most resource heavy Ajax requests (and can be optimized by caching), so taken into account they don't want this nice feature, are basic PowerShell scripts in ajax request really an option. My gut feeling is telling me this is a no-go, but I don't want to exclude the option just because it's not something I usually would do.
I have developed an ASP.NET MVC Web Application to execute PowerShell scripts.I am using the VS web server and can execute scripts fine. However, a requirement is that users are able to execute scripts against AD to perform actions that their own user accounts are not allowed to do.Therefore I am using impersonation to switch the identity before creating the PowerShell runspace:
Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(config);
var currentuser = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;
if (runspace.RunspaceStateInfo.State == RunspaceState.BeforeOpen) {
runspace.Open();
}
I have tested using a domain admin account and I get the following exception when calling runspace.Open():
Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.
Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.
The web application is running in full trust and I have explicitly added the account I am using for impersonation to the local administrators group of the machine (even though the domain admins group was already there).I'm using advapi32.dll LogonUser call to perform the impersonation in a similar way to this post (http://blogs.msdn.com/webdav_101/archive/2008/09/25/howto-calling-exchange-powershell-from-an-impersonated-thead.aspx)
I am working on custom server control. I need to embed js,css and image files in control. I have added js and css file but I am facing a problem to embed images which is in css file. I have set background image in one class in css file but that image does not display when I run the page. So Is it possible to add webresourceurl for images which are placed in css file?
View 6 RepliesI am not able to use the below namespaces in order to Run a powershell script:
using
System.Management.Automation;
using
System.Management.Automation.Runspaces;
I have installed Windows Powershell 2 and the framework is 2.0. I have added the referenece System.Management in the web.config file. Also i have browsed the above 2 namespaces and added to the project in add reference tab. Still i get the below message:
CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Automation' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Management' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
I want to execute some powershell commands on a remote windows 2008 machine. Right now i am using psexec to run the powershell from c# asp.net application. I would like to know is there any way to execute powershell commands without using a third party tool like psexec?
View 1 RepliesI am a beginner of C# programming. I have read a few books about C#.net. But I cannot find some exercises in the books. Someone told me to build up a blog to practice my coding.
But it is a huge task for a beginner. I just want some tasks to have a step by step learning process.