I see a number of enquiries about running HS2 on Windows Server.
For the record, I have now installed it extremely successfully. I have, however, created the following environment:
1. Windws Server 2003 on a server with no sound capability....
2. Virtual Server 2005 (to allow enormous flexibility in test configs)
3. XP configurations on top of that, all set to auto start on server start
4. For anyone who wants to set up more virtual PCs than they have network cards on the server, there's a trick to sorting out the network ports (happy to document separately)
5. One of them runs my old hs 1.7.45 (or so - from memory) for fallback
6. One of them runs HS2 set up to run as a service (for cool handling in power fail scenarios)
7. Remember to open the ports 80 and 8742 in the XP firewall as you can't just link to the HS program (as it is running as a service)
8. HS Speaker client on my tablet PC...works brilliantly on VR showing your server doesn't need to!
I run latest MS patches on everything (no point in risking things).
Simon
For the record, I have now installed it extremely successfully. I have, however, created the following environment:
1. Windws Server 2003 on a server with no sound capability....
2. Virtual Server 2005 (to allow enormous flexibility in test configs)
3. XP configurations on top of that, all set to auto start on server start
4. For anyone who wants to set up more virtual PCs than they have network cards on the server, there's a trick to sorting out the network ports (happy to document separately)
5. One of them runs my old hs 1.7.45 (or so - from memory) for fallback
6. One of them runs HS2 set up to run as a service (for cool handling in power fail scenarios)
7. Remember to open the ports 80 and 8742 in the XP firewall as you can't just link to the HS program (as it is running as a service)
8. HS Speaker client on my tablet PC...works brilliantly on VR showing your server doesn't need to!
I run latest MS patches on everything (no point in risking things).
Simon
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