Windows 2003 Server and Development

manish400

Active Member
Have anyone tried to use XE Development on Windows 2003 Server?
Randomly Activeconsole.exe/FDA.exe/RDA.exe crashes if developer does not have local admin rights.
Client do not want to grant local admin rights for developers.

We have made setup to use their own spec directory when developer logs on to Windows 2003 server

OneWorld XE-SP23
 
Hi,

I suppose you're trying to say the develop on the W2003
via RDP protocol. Short answer is "Yes", I tried that
but it was not a good idea.
First, it's quite unstable (specially Debugger.exe);
second, it's painful to pinpoint the zillions of registry
entries that developer needs access to without being
a local administrator.
I find more practical to build VMWare partitions, every
developer running on its own virtual XP Professional PC,
you don't risk from spec collisions, Debugger crashes
and it's quite easy to backup their disk images.
 
Manish,

I agree with Sebastion - sounds like your customer is trying to do the old "develoment on a citrix server" dance that has been debunked on this forum umpteen times. That configuration is not, has never been, officially supported by JDE, Peoplesoft or Oracle. It was a science expiriment in the pre-VMware world. Can it be set up, sure, you have one. Is it stable, no, as you just documented.

A better solution is to take your windows 2003 server, blow it away and turn it in to a vm-ware server. Take a nicely configured workstation, add in all the development bells and whistles. Then use the VM-ware P to V process to clone that workstation image.

Gregg Larkin
North American JDE System Administrator
Praxair, Inc.
 
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