So my scenario is an old server needs retiring but the mixed platform web solution on it needs porting to a new Windows 2012R2 server. My background doesn't include a lot of experience with the technologies involved so I am struggling plus all the developers involved left without any documentation several years ago, if not more.
The classic ASP website has a reference to an inhouse DLL that we'll call IBase.dll. I used regsvr32 to register this and got past a produced error to a further error which I'm putting down to IBase.dll needing it's own references registering.
InternetBase error '800a01ad'
ActiveX component can't create object
/Secure/CaseDetails.asp, line 333
I managed to find a version of the project files for IBase.dll which was written in VB6. When I go into Project>References it has entries for some inhouse .exes. Now when I tried to regsvr32 these on the new server (from syswow64, though I tried both) I get an error:
The module "D:\ibase\ibasehelper4.exe" was loaded but the entry-point DLLRegisterServer was not found.
Make sure that "D:\ibase\ibasehelper4.exe" is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again.
On the old server I can see registry entries that seem to assist the DLL finding these EXE references. How can I properly try to register these EXEs to make them available to IBase.dll? Or even, what are some things I could try?