w3wp.exe stop responding!!!

From: avner (info_at_netzbiz.com)
Date: 03/03/04


Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:32:47 -0800

Hi there, I have a new server 2003 with IIS6 and since I
had set it up, I have a major problem with the IIS. The
w3wp.exe will stop responding to any ASP pages and all my
sites will stop work! I found out the a static HTML pages
still runs fine. All my site use Access database and I
had upgrade to JET4 already. can anybody help me???
All my sites had run fine under 2000 server IIS5 with the
same code.

I also got this email from a friend that claims Microsoft
2003 have a bug with any databases and they do not give a
patch to anyone but Great Plains company! Is that is
true????

Here is the email i got:

Windows 2003 Gotcha: Opportunistic File Locking

"I have been running W2K3 since it was a beta and had no
problems with
the OS. I then decided it was becoming time to start
offering it to my
customers so the first step was to get my office running
it first. I
upgraded the servers all to Windows Server 2003 and as
with most
engineers I was rushed back into the wild to fix
something and let the
office jockeys run on it.

I felt that I had a successful migration after a few
weeks so I moved
on
to a contract customer of mine that I have had for six
years. I
upgraded
his Dell PowerEdge 1500SC from Windows 2000 Server to
2003 and
immediately the users started complaining of problem
accessing there
QuickBooks files, then the no access turned into file
corruption. This
customer also runs a older Paradox database system on the
server and
files started becoming corrupt with it as well.

I ran through the basic troubleshooting, then the second
phase of
troubleshooting all with no victory. I called QuickBooks
and they said
must be hardware, I called Dell and the said must be
Windows Server
2003, so I called MS and they said it must be hardware.
To shorten
this
up some I removed Windows 2003 upgrade and reinstalled
Windows 2000
Server and the problems immediately went away. The only
thing at time
my
searches on the internet showed had something to do with
Opportunistic
File locking features in Windows, but nothing conclusive
to me.

So I put it on the back burner until yesterday and
started searching
again, wow what a difference a month makes, now people
all over the
place are having the same problems with Windows Server
2003 and
Database
applications, it seems opportunistic file locking is the
problem, I
found one news group posting where someone stated that
Great Plains
was
experiencing this problem so I took a shot and called our
Great Plains
contact at MS and he stated that MS had patched it for
them but he was
not allowed to release it to anyone not running Great
Plains. To wrap
this up Microsoft has let down an engineer that lives and
breathes
their
product, I make my living off of this software and to be
told first
that
nothing is wrong (must be hardware) and then told that
they have a fix
but it is only for the big clients is not pretty."

Please contact me if you have any information about this
so i know if i need to downgrade to 2000 and stop
waisting my time and money on 2003.



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