Entries for 2010
This article is being cross-posted from my business blog.
If you have been paying attention to the news in recent months you have most likely heard of a few cases where user information, such as Usernames and Passwords, have been exposed from some high visibility websites. Some of the more current leaks were with Gawker and Mozilla. For those that are unfamiliar the situation is pretty simple. These sites store user login information, usernames and passwords, that allow users access to their systems. Their systems were then breached and malicious users were able to get access to the information. Why is this something that I am blogging about in relation to DotNetNuke? Well without a bit of configuration your site could be at risk, should a malicious user get access to your system. This article will discuss a bit around how/why there is a risk and how that relates to DotNetNuke, then it will progress into an overview of the default configuration of DotNetNuke and the recommended changes to the system.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, December 31, 2010
I know that this is a little late with DevConnections being a little over a week-and-a-half ago, but I thought that it was still important that I get my highlights out here on the blog as i think there are number of incredibly good things coming in the future for DotNetNuke. For a more detailed review I highly recommend that you check out Will Strohl's blog post, as he goes into a bit deeper discussion than I do.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, November 15, 2010
As I have blogged about in the past I have a big queue of potential blog postings that I have been looking at writing. Although I haven't had many recent updates I am looking to improve on this and get more content out here.
Before I just start firing off new posts from my almost 1.5 year old listing of potential topics I wanted to gather some community input in regards to the topics that are published on this blog and to accept recommendations on what should be next.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can fill out this short 5 question survey. Feel free to share this link with others as well
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, October 12, 2010
It is with deep regret that I have to announce that I will not be able to attend/present at the Day of DotNetNuke event this weekend in Chicago. For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed tweets from me over the past 2 weeks talking about this horrible cold that I have. Well, at this point I am still not recovered, with only 40-50% of my voice available and day-to-day still not feeling all that well I had to make a very hard decision.
In the end, I need to continue to take things slow and relax so that I can kick this cold and be able to resume my regular schedule. I understand that this will be a disappointment to the individuals that were looking forward to my presentations as well as the individuals that I was working to arrange meetings with. I am also deeply sorry for the stress that my cancellation puts on the organizers of the Day of DotNetNuke event.
Over the course of the next 3-5 days I will be taking all materials from my sessions and making them available here so that at minimum you will still have the ability to get the content that was to be presented. I will post my PowePoint slide decks with notes that would have been my talking points.
For those of you attending DevConnections I am looking forward to that event coming up in just a little over a month, and I WILL be there for that event. Otherwise to everyone else again I do apologize that I will be unable to attend and hope that you truly enjoy the Day of DotNetNuke event, I know it will be a great success!
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 30, 2010
For just a little over a week there has been a lot of buzz in the .NET and DotNetNuke community around the POET security vulnerability that was identified within the Microsoft ASP.NET technology stack. For those of you unaware of the true details on this vulnerability I highly recommend you read the initial announcement from Scott Guthrie from Microsoft, as well as his Frequently Asked Questions post, and lastly his secondary followup posting, with a more detailed workaround. So why do I bring this up now? Well late last week DotNetNuke corporation released DotNetNuke 5.5.1 and in the materials that went out with that release they note that it includes a workaround fix for this vulnerability, I wanted to make sure that as always people have ALL information needed before they are doing upgrades.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 27, 2010
Now that the DotNetNuke version 5.5.0 release has been out in the wild for a bit I wanted to take a moment to talk a bit about this release and one particular item that is of special interest to me with regards to the performance of the release. In the past a common question posed to me would be "Which version of DNN runs the fastest?" The answer has always been an easy one, DNN 4.9.5 has been the release that could handle the heaviest load with the best overall relative performance. I believe we have finally hit a tipping point.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, August 24, 2010
As more and more people start working with DotNetNuke, IIS7, and .NET 4.0 it is important to note a few important potential problem areas when it comes to running DotNetNuke on the 4.0 framework. Recently I took a DNN 5.4.4 installation and tried running it under .NET 4.0 and without modifications, it was a complete failure, in this blog posting I will show you what needs to change to allow DotNetNuke to work as expected.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
In past blog postings I have provided what has become a bit of a "Guide to Selecting a DotNetNuke Hosting Provider." As with previous years it is about that time where there have been enough changes in the market and to DotNetNuke in general that I thought it was necessary for a 2010-2011 version of this information. In this article I will talk though the thought process that I use when working with current and potential customers to select their hosting plan, environment and provider. This document has been updated based on current information, in addition, prior to going through the recommendations below I strongly recommend reading my article “Shared, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated of Cloud Hosting” to become familiar with the different levels of hosting and also to review my "DotNetNuke Performance Configuration Best Practices" document to ensure that your DNN hosting plan is up to date.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, July 26, 2010
Like other Microsoft MVPs I have been given a few MSDN Ultimate licenses that I can give away to individuals that I feel are deserving of it. I have been arguing with myself for a while now about how to best determine who should receive the license, and have came up with a contest to give one license away to a reader of this blog.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
One of the most common questions that I get from users when it comes to deploying to deploying a DotNetNuke site is "DO I REALLY need all of those files?". My typical answer is something along the lines of yes and no. In this blog posting I want to talk in a bit more detail about some of the processes that I go through when installing a clean DotNetNuke installation and how I keep the footprint down on the disk space.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, July 07, 2010
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