Steps to check whether a process had utilised a port before your application does with windows built in facilities
As a systems analyst, it is inevitable for me to go to windows based computers to check out the applications that I am taking care of. Most of my applications listen to commands via TCP/IP ports in order to do work.
Whenever a user reports that one of such applications is failing on their machine, the first thing that I will check out is whether that application is able to reserve the port that it is supposed to listen to.
Although there are Sysinternal suite of diagnostic tools for me to use, there are client machines does not allow foreign executables to execute on them.
This post details the steps that I take to check out whether there is a port binding issue in the event that my application fail to run in windows based machines.
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