Setup IIS for Episerver CMS
I do a lot of training and a constant issue that I run into today is that developers do not have IIS setup or some IIS feature is missing. The old Deployment Center had some benefits checking pre-requisites and ensuring that…
How do you setup an IIS Web App so it can access a network share without an AD?
A common setup for EPiServer CMS is a load balancing scenario. You have two or more front end web servers and a shared database server. You also need to store uploaded files somewhere. The most common setup for smaller installations is…
How to open a link in another browser
I had a somewhat unusual request from one of my customers with a very locked down corporate network. Their intranet (and other internal web applications) are only available in IE. But for security reasons, you are not allowed to access…
EPiServer CMS 7: BackingTypeResolver
Or why it can be important to override PropertyValueType on your custom properties. When you create a Page Type in code in EPiServer CMS 7 you create a new class inheriting from PageData and add virtual properties for all the…

Tool to assist during upgrade of EPiServer CMS
EPiServer Deployment Center is used to upgrade from one EPiServer CMS version to another. It copies new files to your www root folder, it changes configuration files, it upgrades the database schema and finally executes some tasks by starting an…