Migration Archives • Helge Klein

Guide: WordPress on Dockerized Apache on Hetzner Cloud

How to set up a modern, fast, and inexpensive web server for WordPress. Design goal: low maintenance coupled with high flexibility.

Upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 & PHP 7.4 to 8.1 for WordPress

This post describes how I upgraded our webserver running WordPress on Apache from Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS to 22.04.1 LTS and PHP from 7.4 to 8.1.

Switching from Chrome to Firefox

After many years as a happy user, I switched from Chrome to Firefox. How did that go? Astonishingly well! Here are some notes I took in the process.

Migrating WordPress from Multisite to Single With MU-Migration

In addition to various commercial plugins, there is one free tool that helps with WordPress migrations to or from multisite installations. MU-Migration is a WP-CLI plugin that worked flawlessly when I wanted to convert helgeklein.com from a multisite into a single site installation. Here are the steps I took.

Searching for Keyword Strings in WordPress Posts

Surprisingly, there does not seem to be a plugin or some other “easy” way of searching your WordPress posts for certain keywords, shortcodes or HTML tags. However, if you have ever been through a theme migration, you know that standardizing on HTML tags and shortcodes makes the process a lot less painful. If you know […]

Converting Mercurial Repositories to Git on Windows

If you work with text, you need version control. That rule applies regardless of whether you write code or poetry (some might argue that those two are the same, anyway). Ignoring the CVS and SVN dinosaurs two distributed version control systems are being regarded as state of the art: Git and Mercurial. Functionality-wise they are […]

Migrating from Citrix UPM back to Roaming Profiles

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. As you may be aware Citrix Profile Management (aka UPM) automatically migrates existing roaming or local user profiles to its user store. A very nice feature, certainly, but what about the way […]

HowTo: ReACLing a File Server in a Domain Migration with SetACL 3.0

When you are planning a migration of user accounts between domains one task always pops up pretty quickly: reassigning the permissions of the users in the source domain to the corresponding users in the target domain, in other words reACLing the file server.

USMT and Beyond – Practical Tips for Your Migration

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. This article presents a collection of tips and tricks around user state migration with and without Microsoft’s USMT. I originally compiled this material for my presentation at the 2010 TechDay Online.

The Making of HelgeKlein.com, SetACL’s New Home

Until yesterday, SetACL’s web presence consisted of six static HTML pages. That was great for speed, but it sucked in almost every other aspect. And the design … better not speak about that. The old website was hosted on Sourceforge, on the subdomain setacl.sourceforge.net, to be exact. High time for a radical change. I wanted […]

Free Script: User Profile Domain Migration with SetACL

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. When administrators migrate user accounts between domains, they typically re-ACL those server resources users have access to. In plain English: they copy or move the permissions from the accounts of the old […]

Migrating from Blogger to Custom Domain on WordPress Without Losing PageRank

Migrating a blog can be a very painful process, part of which stems from the fact that, if not done correctly, search engine valuation (aka PageRank) that took years to gain may be lost in days. Redirecting from the old blog to the new URL alleviates this problem at least, but not the way it […]

New OS = New Profile = User State Lost. True or False?

Going to Windows 7 or Server 2008 (R2) means trouble. Let me use an analogy to explain why. You are in charge of moving people from their old houses to shiny new buildings. You have planned everything perfectly. The new homes are beautiful and located in a great neighborhood. But still, after moving house, people […]

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix

Windows General Good info for troubleshooting DFS-Namespaces in the MS KB: Storage locations, inconsistencies and how to deal with them. Complex passwords and security guidelines for end users? No, thank you, says MS researcher. I agree.

New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)

Why does Windows 7 feel faster than Vista, although really it is not? Improvements to the graphics driver model (WDDM got upgraded to version 1.1) certainly add to this feeling and reduce the memory footprint of the desktop windows manager (DWM) process. Microsoft describes the changes in its Graphics Guide for Windows 7.

Tag: Migration

Guide: WordPress on Dockerized Apache on Hetzner Cloud

Upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 & PHP 7.4 to 8.1 for WordPress

Switching from Chrome to Firefox

Migrating WordPress from Multisite to Single With MU-Migration

Searching for Keyword Strings in WordPress Posts

Converting Mercurial Repositories to Git on Windows

Migrating from Citrix UPM back to Roaming Profiles

HowTo: ReACLing a File Server in a Domain Migration with SetACL 3.0

USMT and Beyond – Practical Tips for Your Migration

The Making of HelgeKlein.com, SetACL’s New Home

Free Script: User Profile Domain Migration with SetACL

Migrating from Blogger to Custom Domain on WordPress Without Losing PageRank

New OS = New Profile = User State Lost. True or False?

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix

New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)