albertjan/PipeToCom — Issue #5: NP2COM Service Problem
Author: swklose
Created: 2011-11-29 22:26:30+00:00
State: open

I am not a programmer, just an IT guy trying to get Fax Services running on a Small Business Server 2011. The SBS is running as a VM under Hyper-V. The core for Hyper-V is Windows Server 2008 R2 with a PCIE Fax Modem Installed. The Hyper-V Manager settings for the VM have COM Port 1 set with a named pipe (not sure if this is correct, but I set the computer name of VM running SBS in the named pipe).

I get the following error when I try to install the NP2COM service on the SBS VM Instance.

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>installutil.exe c:\utils\np2com\np2coms.exe
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 4.0.30319.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Exception occurred while initializing the installation:
System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///c:\util
s\np2com\np2coms.exe' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a
program with an incorrect format..

Any help would be greatly appreciated!