Windows 2008R2 x64 Datacenter TSMS 6.3.0.0 for Windows (12:47:17 on Oct 10 2011)
My current server hangs on start, and I can't figure out why. *wheeze* back in the day, you could run dsmserv.exe from a command prompt on Windows, and get stdout. So, I log in as the instance user, run cmd.exe, go to my instance directory, and run dsmserv.exe (it's in my path). A separate console window pops up, and immediately closes. Redirecting doesn't put anything in the file. If I look closely, I see some output in the fraction of a second that the new console window is up. Is there not a way to keep dsmserv from spawning a NEW window anymore? Am I really going to have to resort to creating a batch file with a pause at the end? I don't know when this became the case. I don't recall it in 6.2, but I don't have to use CLI all that often. I'm hoping this is just some 2k8 thing and being a unixy guy, I'm just too stupid to figure it out. With friendly Regards, Josh-Daniel S. Davis