All of a sudden all my websites didn’t work anymore. Using some common sense in searching for the root of the problem I discovered the IIS Admin Service hadn’t started after booting up my machine. Trying to manually start up the service didn’t help much either, I was confronted with a message telling me
The system cannot find the file specified.
Sadly, the event logs didn’t help much, as the logs told me about the same
Read more →Some time ago my ForeFront TMG server had crashed and not being an expert sysadmin, I wasn’t able to figure out what was wrong. The only thing I could think of was restoring the server from an earlier snapshot. Thanks to the Hyper-V interface this is really easy, even a software developer can do this.
After having restored the server to an earlier state I connected to the server and was prompted with a message telling me “the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”.
Read more →At the moment I’m working on a (Orchard) project which is deployed to Windows Azure and uses a SQL Azure database. As my team needed to fix some issues which occurred in the Acceptance and Production environment, I wanted to get a recent database dump so we would be able to reproduce the issues on the development machines.
I couldn’t find an easy way to synchronize the databases or create a backup which I could restore.
Read more →A few days ago I listened to a new episode of the .NET Rocks podcast, with Kimberly Tripp on the show. While she was going through the list of things every developer needs to know, one in particular caught my interest. She mentioned we should use the different types consistently in the database. Not using types consistently within your database can cause quite some performance loss. This is because SQL Server ‘upcasts’ the minor type to the higher type (example: varchar to nvarchar).
Read more →Including a lot of files in your website can impact the performance of your site. Your browser needs to request all those files from the webserver(s) and download them individually. Luckily this fetching is pretty fast and your browser can do multiple requests at once. However, there is a maximum to the number of requests a browser can make, so if you include 100 external files, will probably be (relatively) slow.
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