Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
One of the projects I'm working on at the moment came with a requirement to change Sitecore v9.1 from running with the default SQL Security accounts to trusted connections using specific Active Directory accounts that the client provided. While there's a bit of work to do to enable this, it shouldn't be too tough. But trying to be a bit clever, I hit upon an issue which seemed worth documenting...
A couple of times recently, I've found myself needing to deploy files that come wrapped in a
.tar.gz
archive onto servers. On your desktop that's not too much of a problem – you just run the installer for your preferred
3rd party tool, or maybe
use the new Unixy shell
and you get on with it. But on client servers security can be higher and you don't always get the option to run any old installer. So I needed an alternative...
