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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Delay start ServiceControl on slow Windows startup

Lately I noticed my Windows 8.1 machine was taking a long time to become responsive after login. The files in Explorer would only show up after a terrible long load, and the icons would still be white. After some time … Continue reading

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Octopus deploy upgrade

We first started using octopus deploy on version 2.1. Now it is time to upgrade to the latest stable version. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Bert Lance First things first: make sure you have a recent backup! Start … Continue reading

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Week 20 roundup

Last week recap an links: Nice post from Matt Wrock about scripting your Cloud environments. Automate the Complete Windows Environment Setup and Configuration Octopus deploy released version 2.4.5 and asks the community to create reusable deployment steps in this blogpost. … Continue reading

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Template post on wordpress.com

I’ve been publishing roundup posts for some time now and just discovered wordpress has copy a post. This is kind of a template for posts. After choosing Copy a Post from the menu make sure to enable the Writing Helper … Continue reading

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SpiraTeam database hack for user access

My test colleague uses SpiraTeam and needed some help restoring a backup. After restoring we granted access to the database from IIS (network service). But now he tells me nobody knows the Administrator password. What to do? Solution The SQL … Continue reading

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