Brainshare

We had a little wmware incident earlier throwing our servers into the future, resulting in a cluttered activity stream.

Kiln is currently moving away from using the opengrok search engine in the backend. All the work queues will now be handled by the Kiln Queueing Service. After a little mishap with the WMWare SXI server, the date was thrown into the future, causing problems related to license and certificate expiration. As a result, the [...]

When using the upgrade tool in the EPiServer deployment center, you might get some problems with the database connections. You will find multiple blog posts on the issue around the net and I have written about it earlier here. This post will show you the steps necessary to manually upgrade the database using the SQL [...]

Recently, when performing an upgrade from CMS5 to CMS6, I got the error message “Login failed for user ‘’” during the process. I found this error message strange, since it had already done part of the upgrade. In addition the site was running fine against the database before the upgrade, so the connection string was [...]

I usually turn to writing a HttpHandler when I need to serve data as JSON (or other format) to part of my applications. It has low overhead and is easy to code. Custom HttpHandlers are the .ashx files (by default) and implement the IHttpHandler interface. This post just serves as a reminder for myself on [...]

This is one question that surfaces quite often, so I decided to make a short post about it, hoping more people will find the answer they look for. In previous versions of EPiServer, 4.x etc, you could just delete the file and upload a new one. This had some drawbacks, for example when caching of [...]