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Every now and again you need to get exclusivity to a database e.g. to do a database restore but someone is connected. You can manually find who it is using EXEC sp_who but that can result in having to

We've been playing more with AppVeyor over the past few weeks to automate the deployment of our sites and one of the things we got caught out with was the Umbraco folder permissions which we do with

We came across an odd error recently which was thrown when editing a marketing campaign in Ucommerce. It was a fresh install (albeit via nuget) and was along the lines

In 2010 I blogged about how to set Umbraco folder permissions using PowerShell. This has been a really handy snippet -but it's always been a bit of a pain when dealing with new servers, remembering

Stripe is generally our go-to PCI compliant payment gateway but from time to time we're asked to use alternatives such as WorldPay. For the most this is fine but redirecting the shopping from WorldPay

In a follow-on from my previous post about how to Group Newsletter Studio newsletters by month in the Umbraco backend tree. This is a quick post to give you an idea of how to group the mailing lists

One of our customer's websites uses the Newsletter Studio Umbraco package to manage their mailing lists but had an issue because they send a lot of emails (40+ a month) so the draft/sent/archive

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is one of the hot topics at the moment and we've been helping clients get their website ready for the pending changes.One of the trickier required (but

I've previously blogged about how to download any Umbraco document as a CSV from SQL but we hit a slightly different issue today and needed to view the values for a property in SQL. By default Umbraco

Sometimes it's the simple things that are hardest to find/remember but if you've ever needed to send the same Ucommerce email to multiple recipients you'll be pleased to hear that it's built in.To