Automation Archive

Today I had a bit of a struggle with the Jenkins EnvInject Plugin while trying to inject custom variables from a properties file into my MSBuild step. Everything that I added to the Properties Content field was successfully injected, and looking at the log, the EnvInject reported successfully injecting my file envVars.properties variables as well. I used PowerShell to retrieve the current Git branch and …

Some time ago I wrote a post about retrieving and updating the MaxMind GeoIP database using Windows PowerShell scripts, and suggested the possibility to have the Windows Task Scheduler automating the process. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to have a go at making the EPiServer scheduler do the work as well; perhaps there would also be scenarios when web administrators would need to …

The MaxMind GeoIP database (shipped with EPiServer Framework) is rather useful when wanting to show geographically specific information to visitors as they surf around the site. Since mapping the correct requests to the proper regions may be rather important generating value, the need of having a fresh database copy quickly comes into focus. Manually updating the database is of course not at all complicated; it …

Windows PowerShell scripting is a powerful way of automating otherwise tiresome and error prone manual tasks. I recently looked into how I could have Windows running my scripts for me. It is not difficult, but it still took some poking around to get done. New tasks are added using the Create Task option in the Actions area. The General tab will let you decide how …