Why Doesn't Microsoft Patch this. VWNotify.exe AND Viewdrop Folde

[SkyEyes]

Can someone from Microsoft please look at patching whatever is going on with
the VWNotify.exe hanging and the files in the viewdrop folder building? This
appears to have been going on in Project Server 2003 for quite some time,
several posts out on the web. Management will not quite consider a good
resolution to kill the vwnotify.exe process, possibly clean up the first
couple XML files in the viewdrop folder to be a daily-weekly affair.

If there is some information you need gathered to help fix this, please
contact me. Thanks!!

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[Ray McCoppin]

We have found that restarting the service on a nightly basis helps. Here is
a link to a VBS script that will stop the service if the viewdrop folder is
empty.

http://www.randsmanagement.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=ViewsRecycle.zip&tabid=36&mid=426

The MS health monitor tool may also help you. Link below
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...67-ea88-4cc7-8410-9236abf2ed40&DisplayLang=en


You may want to also read this:
http://www.randsmanagement.com/Products/tabid/86/Default.aspx

Hope this helps

 

[SkyEyes]

I found something that appears to be that SP3 resolves these problems. Has
anyone loaded SP3 and has it broken anything else or really resolved this
issue?

Also, thanks for the script link.

 

[rodd]

We actually tried sp3 for MS-project 2003 ans it seems works very well.
VWnotify seems more slow than previous version (sp2) but it shows more
stability and works more solidly.
So far, it doesn't stuck on XML files...

 

[Carl Paul]

Restarting the service on a nightly basis helps until your volumes get really
heavy, then you will have to restart several times a day. MS has an
unsupported tool that actually does this: VWNotify Maintenance Service. Yes,
this is a tool that restarts the VWNotify Service after X number of jobs have
been processed. We are running quite happly with that on SP2... Looking
forward to the fix in SP3 ... if it works.