running .exe from IIS server

In addition to Jeff, it is not as simple as taking a desktop app and trying to make it a multi-tier level application. If this is an app that
you purchased from a vendor, then it is possible they have already rewritten it to be a web application, utilizing com+, and running their
app in their own com+ packages.

If it is something that somebody with your company wrote, I would suggest getting with them, and discussing what needs to happen. I
would definitely start by a test environment, and not start making changes to production, as I can see some serialization issues already
that will probably start bringing down IIS.

Here is a good group to post to; they will want to know everything the app does, and what it was written in (Perl, C++, etc).
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.components

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| From: jcochran.nospam.DeleteThis@naplesgov.com (Jeff Cochran)
| Subject: Re: running .exe from IIS server
| Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:56:41 GMT
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| On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:19:33 -0700, "Ruth Hartsook"
| <rhartsook.DeleteThis@davidson.k12.nc.us> wrote:
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| >This is probably a stupid question - but is it possible to
| >load a .exe file on my Windows NT 4.0 web server running
| >IIS and allow users to run that .exe file from the server
| >without downloading the files?
|
| Possible, yes. Simple, not completely. It depends a lot on what this
| EXE does and what responses you'll need to process. How about telling
| us what you wnat to do and maybe we can suggest a method to make it
| work?
|
| Jeff
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