So here's my setup: Visual Studio/Microsoft Test Manager (2012) running on Windows Server 2008 (running on a virtual machine), trying to connect to another VM running Windows 8 (not 8.1). The issue is that in Lab Manager, it says that my Win 8 VM is in a "Ready" status, but when I go to connect, it says "Microsoft Environment Viewer could not connect to the machine..." I have looked for this error and nothing that I can find applies to this error. I get a somewhat generic "how to" doc from MS in most of my searching, but it's not helping me here. The interesting thing about it is that I can connect via the remote desktop option...So I don't know where to go from here. If it's a firewall issue, I don't know what to look for exactly. There may be some detail I've missed, but I don't know what it could be...help?
Thank you!
Aha! I have found the answer, and it is here. Basically, you have to reduce somewhat the security of your environment to allow RDP Clients that aren't the same version as the host OS expects to run.
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I am having really difficult time to cope up with the windows phone emulator.
My ultimate goal is to deploy my application and sniff http requests through fiddler.
I am on Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 on Windows 8.1
Problems which i face
Sometimes the emulator does not start at all and gets stuck "Window Phone OS is starting ".
Here first i get the message of "Attempting to modify switch settings" info dialog. I clicked on ok. Then i get Error dialog of "Windows Phone emulator is unable to connect to the windows phone operating system" "Object reference not set to an instance of an object "(Internal c# error). I click close and it gets stuck at "Windows Phone OS is starting".
if i get past this problem and my application gets deployed. I cannot connect to internet. Even a link in browser does not open.
Now for the rarest of rare times i am able to connect to internet. I am in no way able to sniff http request.
But sniffing is still my secondary problem, but my first issue is to get the emulator run and connect to internet.
Steps which i have performed to troubleshoot.
Hyper-V as a Windows feature is turned on.
My firewalls have been disabled.
I have removed the virtual machines and switch created by Hyper-V manager and let it be created through Visual Studio.
In network connections, disabled and enabled the vEthernet (Windows Phone emulator switch ).
Have also tried ipconfig/renew.
Have gone through lot of msdn posts, blogs, so questions but the behaviour of emulator is pretty inconsistent.
Is there any way i can get emulator logs/info ?
Any help to direct to me to any direction will be hugely appreciated.
UPDATE
only thing which is consistently working for me right now is disabling Hyper-V windows feature and then enabling it again.
Mind the expensive system restarts also. Then adding my user name to Hyper V admin group and then deploying the application.
So whenever i am changing my network i have to perform these steps. Definitely not sustainable
UPDATE 1
So now i have fiddler also acting as a man in the middle. Followed the steps here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wsdevsol/archive/2013/06/05/configure-the-windows-phone-8-emulator-to-work-with-fiddler.aspx. Couple of thing to change here are the port number and to give the ip number instead of host name.
Also have fiddler always start first and then the emulator. Fiddler is able to sniff the requests happening in emulator. But my application http requests are not going through which is fine if i run without fiddler. I am currently looking into this.
Best Regards,
Saurav
Have you tried to run Visual Studio as Administrator? Sometimes, the user must have highest privileges to run Hyper-V.
I am trying to create a dev box for SharePoint 2010 Server utilizing the following:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjohnson/archive/2010/10/28/announcing-sharepoint-easy-setup-for-developers.aspx
So first of all this is new to me. I understand that these are instructions are for dual boot in Windows Native, but I am more interested in using a VHD/image of the OS to run on VMWare.
I have tried creating an image of a running virtual machine with sysprep tool, but hit a dead end with capturing the image to a file that I can reference within the running machine to run the scripts against.
I took a look at Diskpart on TechNet, but as I am new to this, I am not sure this is what I want to do?
I tried installing to the local host (virtual machine that is running) and am getting an error there also; fails at Windows Identity Framework.
It is a clean install of Windows 7 (literally nothing else), and the UAC has been disabled.
Is there any insite, help, or advice anyone can provide me regarding this? I would really appreciate it as I have to get working on the development aspects of SP (workflows, web parts,etc), and need a dev env, and I can't seem to get anywhere with this.
Thanks
Justin
Hey everyone, I'm having trouble configuring my remote debugging set up. I've been searching and reading for a while, but I can't figure it out. I'm running windows 7 as the pc I'm running VS on and then have windows 7 running in virtual box as the pc that is running the program I'm trying to debug. I'm trying to debug a .NET 4 project.
Both computers are not part of a domain (I'm not sure if that matters). I'm running the debug monitor on the virtual pc via a shared folder on the non-virtual pc.
When I try to connect to the remote pc in the attach to process window in VS it connects, but fails to launch, and I get an error that says
Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.
The specified network name is no longer available.
Let me know if I need to say anything else about my set-up.
Thanks for the help!
I finally figured out my problem(s).
I was using the wrong PC name to connect to the host machine. I was using the Server name that you can type in the VS remote debugging monitor. I had it working when I did the server as 'Stephen#192.168...' where that was the actual ip address on my subnet
Windows didn't properly configure the firewall ports for me. I had to manually open the DCOM ports to get it connecting.
I had to clear the existing credentials for each machine once everything else was set up as is shown here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2dbesfyx.aspx
Thanks everyone for your help and pointers.
I need to debug some C# code on a remote machine running XP Embedded. I did remote debugging on several occasions on different Windows operating systems and all worked well, but I think that the XP Embedded OS is missing something.
I'm popping my brains out in the last couple of days, reading and trying stuff, but nothing seems to work. So if you have been in the same situation and found a solution, please help. Here is what I did up to now:
Successfully established a remote debugging connection to an XP Professional environment, so I know that there's nothing wrong with my remote configuration.
Started the same services on the Embedded environment that are running on the Professional environment.
Configured DCOM permissions, firewall, local users with same name and passwords on both local and remote machines. Gave local users administrator rights.
Started msvsmon.exe both as an application and as a service, under the local user account, wich also has log on as a service rights.
Triple-checked that there is no other firewall between the machines that could drop remote debugging packets.
If I use the No authentication (native only) mode on the Embedded machine, the remote debugging works and I can see the processes. Otherwise, I get an error:
Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor named '[NAME]'. The debugger cannot connect to the remote computer. This may
be because the remote computer does not exist or a firewall may
be preventing communication to the remote computer. Please see
Help for assistance.
Thank you for the time you took to read this and any suggestion may help. Thanks!
Can you use WireShark to capture the data going to the remote XP embedded device? If you get a TCP acknowledgement, at least you'll know it's not a firewall problem.
Did you tried to start msvsmon.exe with admistrator rights ? Maybe that is the issue, a post by John Robbins explains it : http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2010/06/15/vs-remote-debugging-across-workgroups-or-domains.aspx.
I've read all related remote debug entries here and couldn't find an answer to my problem. I've trying to setup remote debugging to test a console app.
Dev Machine - Vista, VS 2008
Remote Machine - Win 2008
I've followed the steps in this article to configure it and I'm stuck with the following error when I try to list processes in remote machine under 'Attach to Process'.
"The remote procedure call failed and did not execute".
But in my remote machines 'Remote Debug Monitor' I see that the dev machine connection was established.
Can anyone provide me with any clues?
Whenever I run into this problem the first thing I do is disable the firewall on both computers. Firewall problems are the most common issue I run into with remote debugging and it's best to eliminate that problem from the start.
Do take care to turn the firewall back on when you're done diagnosing the problem :).