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Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&A: Why doesn’t Srvany Close my Application when I Stop the Service?We use Srvany to run our Java application as a service. It starts fine but when we stop the service our Java application does not close. We have to kill the java.exe process in Task Manager. That’s not supposed to … Continue reading Posted in Srvany Tagged alwaysup, java, q&a, service-wrapper, srvany, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: Does AlwaysUp work in High Availability Failover Clusters?My team inherited a cluster of 4 Windows Server 2012 R2 machines running a legacy finance application. At a time only one instance of the application should be up and running as the active/primary instance. The application is cluster-unaware so … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, failover-cluster, failure-detection, failure-remediation, high-availability, q&a Leave a comment Box Drive Version 2.18 Fails to Run in Session 0 (as a Windows Service)Do you run Box Drive as a Windows Service, to ensure that file synchronization starts as soon as your server boots? If so, please be aware that Box Drive version 2.18 may not start properly in the background! Version 2.18 … Continue reading Posted in Box Drive Tagged alwaysup, box-drive, psexec, session-0-isolation, support, troubleshooter 3 Comments AlwaysUp 12.5: Dropbox fixes, Email improvements, AutoStartDelay and MoreWe’re closing out the tumultuous 2020 with version 12.5 of AlwaysUp — our “run anything as a Windows Service” utility used by tens of thousands of savvy computer administrators across the globe. This release delivers a few major enhancements: File … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, alwaysup-clt, auto-start-delay, automatic-delayed, dropbox, new-release, windows-10, windows-10-20H2 Leave a comment Q&A: Why does AlwaysUp Restart my Application During Windows Shutdown?This seems like strange behavior, but when you are using autologon to launch an application in session 1 and reboot the server, during the reboot AlwaysUp briefly relaunches the application in session 0. Here’s an example from the activity log: … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, q&a, race-condition, service-shutdown, windows-shutdown Leave a comment |
