RE: A FoxPro Transition @ UCLA...

2019-03-21 Thread Fletcher Johnson
Kurt, As with some of the others, my thought is that you can't realistically recommend some other product until you are much more familiar with what parts they currently use and how they use them. And what they would hope to accomplish with those once moved to the new environment. There are lots

RE: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Tracy Pearson
Fred, I'm curious if your setup has data on one server, and the VFP applications are on another server. If they are setup this way, how much activity do the VFP data files get? And for everyone else... I know we have trouble with index corruption. It is partly the VM server hosting the data gets

RE: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Chris Davis
I am sure the Anti Virus which had been ruled out as the cause (Sophos) has been reinstalled and disables Defender, but it's a good heads up and I will double check. Thanks Fred Regards Chris. -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Thursday, 21 March 201

Re: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Fred Taylor
We recently upgraded to a new server box from running Windows Server 2008 (3 VM's) to Windows Server 2019 (running 6 VM's). Most of the VM's have access to FoxPro data and function without incident. Have you made sure that Windows Defender has also been set to ignore .DBF/.CDX/.FPT files on both

Re: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Desmond Lloyd
Old "legacy" VFP application running under a "VM" environment. Been running this way for at least four years. However, as of late I am seeing intermittent "File Read Errors" when a table is used/opened. Completely random and intermittent. Reboot the workstation and they are good. My bigges

Re: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Peter Cushing
Hi Chris, Workstations just use standard RDP and on the server we use thinstuff: https://www.thinstuff.com/products/xpvs-server/ Thanks, Peter On 21/03/2019 10:30, Chris Davis wrote: > Thanks Peter > > The RDP client ? > >> On 21 Mar 2019, at 10:28, Peter Cushing wrote: >> >>> On 21/03/2019 0

Re: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Chris Davis
Thanks Peter The RDP client ? > On 21 Mar 2019, at 10:28, Peter Cushing wrote: > >> On 21/03/2019 09:41, Chris Davis wrote: >> We are seeing increasing problems with VFP applications (some of our own and >> other commercial ones) as our customers have their servers upgraded. >> >> A lot of th

Re: File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Peter Cushing
On 21/03/2019 09:41, Chris Davis wrote: > We are seeing increasing problems with VFP applications (some of our own and > other commercial ones) as our customers have their servers upgraded. > > A lot of these servers are now virtual machines hosted on a physical machine. > In some instances thes

File Access Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Chris Davis
We are seeing increasing problems with VFP applications (some of our own and other commercial ones) as our customers have their servers upgraded. A lot of these servers are now virtual machines hosted on a physical machine. In some instances these are remote desktop servers which access the VFP