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ActiveXPosh IIS6 crash

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I have an issue that seems to happen a lot. The latest download of ActiveXPosh in IIS6 crashes, im calling it from classic ASP. The error -2147024894 comes up and I restart IIS and it works again for a while, then crashes again after an unknown period. Why would this be? Please help...thanks.
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The error number translates to "The system cannot find the file specified. " Sooo, not really sure what happens there. Do you have more details, like how exactly you use it, any crash data from the event logs etc?
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Thanks for the reply, your a life saver if i can figure this out. The control must know im talking to you as it appears it hasnt crashed yet since I posted last, what luck. But this is the ASP code I use. Next time it crashes I will give you the full ASP error details and the windows event log.on error goto 0Dim ActiveXPosh,success,strDomainNamestrDomainName = "Test_VM"gstrVMwareServerAddress = "x.x.x.x"gstrVMwareUsername = "xxxxxx"gstrVMwarePassword = "xxxxxx"Set ActiveXPosh = Server.CreateObject("SAPIEN.ActiveXPosh") success = ActiveXPosh.Init(vbFalse) 'Do not load profilesIf success <> 0 then response.write "error"End IfActiveXPosh.Execute("Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core")If ActiveXPosh.Eval("$Server = Connect-VIServer " & gstrVMwareServerAddress & " -user " & gstrVMwareUsername & " -password " & gstrVMwarePassword) = vbTrue Then Call ActiveXPosh.Eval("Stop-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name " & Chr(34) & strDomainName & Chr(34) & ") -Confirm:$false") Call ActiveXPosh.Eval("Start-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name " & Chr(34) & strDomainName & Chr(34) & ") -Confirm:$false") Call ActiveXPosh.Eval("Disconnect-VIServer -Server $Server -Confirm:$false")Else response.write "connect error"End IfSet ActiveXPosh = Nothing
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Well, let us know if it happens again.

One thing that might help is the following. I don't know anything about your site, but since PowerShell is not really a fast startup thing, it is quite inefficient to create the ActiveXPosh object (and thereby PowerShell) every single time you use it.
I would think that creating the object, say, as a session variable would make things smoother.

But like I said, not knowing anything about the site setup and purpose or even how this is used, it might not matter.
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sorry for the delay in posting back...I continue to get the errors randomly. If I restart IIS it goes away for a couple of days. Also there is no errors in the event log in any section when this error occurs.The error is -2147024894, it occurs on line 3, this line:Set ActiveXPosh = Server.CreateObject("SAPIEN.ActiveXPosh")
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The error means IIS cannot find the file associated with the COM object. It happens before ActiveXPosh even gets into play. I honestly have no idea since I am not an IIS person. Since it runs for a couple of days, I would ask someone with IIS expertise for help.

Sorry I can't help more with that.

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Ok thanks, Im going to put the code into a VB6 dll and call ActiveXPosh from the DLL and then call the VB6 dll from ASP and see if that fixes it.
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Ok, so I put the code into a VB6 dll. I referenced the type library you have incldued and I get the same error there as well:Error:-2147024894 - File or assembly name ActiveXPosh, or one of its dependencies, was not found., in VMwareCommDLL.clsVMwareComm.RestartVM at line 100code as follows, line 100 is in bold:Dim ActiveXPosh As ActiveXPosh.IActiveXPoSH, success As BooleanSet ActiveXPosh = CreateObject("SAPIEN.ActiveXPosh")If ActiveXPosh.IsPowerShellInstalled = True Then success = ActiveXPosh.Init(False)....what dependencies does this component have that I could be missing?
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One link here: http://www.smartertools.com/Portal/KB/a ... 6suggested that I change the permissions on the temp folder, I already checked them and they are correct with the KB listed users as well as everyone having full permissions on the folder. So I would assume its something else...
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That sounds like the component isn't even registered.
Did you run regasm on the dll?

If yes, go here:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

and check the dependencies of the dll on YOUR system.
It will tell you what is missing, if anything.

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