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Occasionally I have the need to analyse IIS logs, and one quick and dirty way to accomplish this is to import them into SQL server. It is possible to do this natively in SQL using the following commands: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.IISLOG CREATE TABLE dbo.IISLOG ( [DATE] [DATE]

This article describes a quick way to reinstall all the packages in a .Net Framework solution or a single project. When updating a project's target .Net Framework I am occasionally told in the output window I may need to reinstall a NuGet package or two. Inspection of the

Bundling and minification are two great techniques for increasing the performance of a site. The basic idea is that resources of a similar type are grouped into a single file, which: * reduces the number of requests (for what are typically quite small files), * minifies, * then compresses the resulting bundle. This

Log4Net is the great logging tool used by Umbraco for its logging. Others such as Darren Ferguson [http://blog.darren-ferguson.com/2013/02/22/log4net-logging-from-your-custom-code-in-umbraco/] and Ismail Mayat [http://24days.in/umbraco/2013/log4net-in-umbraco/] give great introductions, but this short piece is just to show how I congigured Log4Net to

1. Enable remote connections to Sql Server. The instructiions are for SQL Server 2005, but the steps are the same for 2008. http://www.linglom.com/it-support/enable-remote-connection-on-sql-server-2008-express/ 2. Set up Inbound and Outbound rules for TCP port 1433. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-open-a-port-in-the-windows-7-firewall.html 3. Set up

It is often a requirement to connect to CMS back-office or admin areas using the HTTPS protocol. The HTTPS protocol uses SSL to encrypt the connection using a SSL certificate that can be purchased from one of the many companies that act as certificate authorities. Once a certificate is installed

Amazon, via their AWS SES, offer a convenient way to send emails from our Umbraco sites. This is great, as we don't have the headache of managing an SMTP server. Amazon Configuration 1. In Amazon AWS account, ensure the account is authorised for 'Production Access' in

Umbraco is able to perform page redirect to pages hosted withing the same site, and to pages on domains hosted elsewhere. To redirect from page-src to page-dest where both pages are within the same site, add the following entry to the urlrewritingnet > rewrites section of /config/UrlRewriting.config: <

It is often handy to be able to redirect a directory and its child pages to the HTTPS protocol rather than the usual HTTP, for instance, the back-office area of a CMS. This can easily be achieved in IIS by entering the following entry to the system.webServer > rewrite

Sites are often accessible from multiple domain names, for example a company may have purchased the .co.uk and .com versions of their domain name so as to 'own' that domain and prevent others squatting on that domain. It was also a convention that websites be served from