IT Tips & Tricks

Change the password length requirement in Umbraco This solution will work with Umbraco 8.xx versions. Previous or newer versions may need some additional or fewer changes.  In Umbraco default password length is 10, and need to provide a valid email address for the user name.   If you are developing or designing a website using Umbraco and testing it you may need to shorten the password length or use a short username in your development website to save time. (NOT in the production site) Changing default password length in a new installation This method is for a fresh Umbraco installation. For an existing installation, there is some extra work to do. I will discuss it later. Lots of people have an issue with changing the configuration to suit this requirement.  First, we will look at the issue. Open the  Web.config file and go to the following section <!-- Membership Provider --> <membership defaultProvider = "UmbracoMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow = &quo

Renaming or Replacing multiple file names in a folder - The Fast way -Windows 10 Suppose we have many files in a folder with similar pattern and we want to rename all of them. Doing this manually using explorer or command prompt is very time consuming. For example we have following files stored in d:\Products\ folder:      scean1-160_x_90.jpg      scean1-240_x_135.jpg      scean1-320_x_180.jpg      scean1-480_x_270.jpg      scean1-640_x_360.jpg      scean1-960_x_540.jpg      scean1-1280_x_720.jpg      scean1-1920_x_1080.jpg      screen1-2560_x_1440.jpg      screen1-3840_x_2160.jpg      scean1-5120_x_2880.jpg We want to change the common string pattern "_x_" to "x". Easiest way to do this in Windows 10. Useing Windows Power Shell open the folder and execute the following command: get-childitem  | foreach { rename-item $_ $_.Name.Replace("_x_", "x") }