Resource Kit Playbooks

[Ben Mc]

Hi there,

I am having a lot of grief trying to running playbooks. After a lot of
analysis (dissassembling playbooks.exe, discovering that you can run it with
command line parameters), it seems to me that there is an issue when trying
to connect to a site that specifies a port number in the URL. Of course, i am
not absolutely certain this is the real reason.

For example, my PWA on a virtual server "http://virtualservername/pwa" works
fine, but on the dev box, "http://servername:28129/PWA" does not.

Eg:
E:\>Playbooks.exe /url http://servername:28129/pwa /username myname
/password mypassword restore_xml_file

....gives...

Server URL set to http://servername:28129/pwa
Initializing Web Services...
ERROR: Server was unable to process request. ---> Unable to connect to SQL
Server database. ---> An error has occurred w
hile establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server
2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings
SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network
Interfaces, error
: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

Please set URL, Username, password correctly
ERROR: Initialize service error!

Offering NO credentials, merely gives:

E:\REFT\TEST>Playbooks.exe /url http://servername:28129/pwa restore_xml_file
Server URL set to http://servername:28129/pwa
Initializing Web Services...
ERROR: Initialize service error!

Please note: I am running Playbooks on the host server (local)

Also, interestingly, i can run the Resource Kit's PAViewsMigration applet
with same server and credentials - NO PROBLEM!??!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Ben

 

[Ray McCoppin]

Try putting the url in quotes. Like this:
Playbooks.exe /url "http://servername:28129/pwa"

Some times the "/" in the url wiil confuse the command line argument paser.

Hope this helps

 

[Ben Mc]

Hi Ray,

No, unfortunately it made no difference, but thanks for the timely suggestion.

I iterated through all combinations of wrapping all parameters in quotes - i
actually had to do it before when using a different username as it has space
in it, but hadnt thought to do it around the URL.

Thanks again - i'll keep pulling hair ;D

Ben

 

[Quized again]

This may be way too late and might not work for you, but I found that I had
to have the Microsoft.Server.Library.dll file from the SDK in the same folder
as the Playbooks tool in order to get it to run at all.

I hope it helps you out but you may have covered that ground already.
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