Syncplicity and SRVANY.EXE so you can run syncplicity on your windows 2003 server

Syncplicity and SRVANY.EXE so you can run syncplicity on your windows 2003 server

"Borrowed" from http://jack.ukleja.com/utorrent-service-windows-home-server-2011/

Thanks Jack!

Step 1: Download and Install Synplicity

Download Syncplicity
Install Syncplicity as normal, by opening the downloaded EXE
It should install itself into C:\Program Files\Syncplicity

Step 2: Configure Syncplicity UI

Run Syncplicity as normal (e.g. Start Menu)
Configure as needed
Quit

Step 3: Download and Install SRVANY.exe

Download Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools (11.8 MB).
Install the entire tool suite as normal, by opening the downloaded exe.
By default srvany.exe will be installed to C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe

Step 4: Create Windows Service for Syncplicity

Open an administrative command prompt by following these steps:
- Navigate to Start Menu –> Accessories –> Command Prompt
- Right click and select “Run as Administrator”

At the command prompt enter the following:

sc create Syncplicity binPath= "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe" obj= "NT AUTHORITY\LocalService" start= auto

Note: Do not remove the spaces between the equals sign and parameters. This is an oddity of sc command and is required

Step 5: Configure the SRVANY.EXE service

If you want to perform this step manually you will need to know about regedit. Here are the steps:
Run regedit

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Syncplicity\Parameters
Create the Parameters key if it does not exist
Under the Parameters Key, add a new String Value named Application
Set the value to be C:\Program Files\Syncplicity\Syncplicity.exe

These screenshots should help: