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Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&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 Q&A: What changed with my Windows Services?How can I tell if someone updated the services on our Windows 2019 server? Do you have any tools for that? — Sheldon P. Hi Sheldon. Since Windows Services run with high privileges, it’s very important to keep an eye … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged q&a, security, windows-service-auditor, windows-services, winmerge 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 Q&A: How do I Remove an AlwaysUp “At-Login” Startup Task?At some point I must have setup a command line to start my application in AlwaysUp when I log in. But I do not need to do that any longer. I deleted the configuration in AlwaysUp but I do not … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, autoruns, q&a, startup-folder, task-scheduler, troubleshooter Leave a comment Q&A: Why did Dropbox Stop Copying/Synchronizing my Files?My client who has AlwaysUp for Dropbox running on his server informed me that his files stopped syncing. I created a test file in their folder that is supposed to be syncing and sure enough, it was not working. I … Continue reading |
