No big deal really and since I already toke some time to work on my server, I figured I might do the other outstanding chore too; upgrading the blog-engine to dasBlog 2.0.7226. I did a test upgrade on my (virtual) dev-server first. No real problems, just the an overzealous DasBlogUpgrader.exe (but you can prevent that by taking a good look at the badWords in DasBlogUpgrader.exe.config and removing the appropriate words from that list (like where free set out to delete some referrer-url’s that were okay)). Upgrade instructions are pretty straight forward, but when hitting the uploading section you need to run the difference check on the /config/site.config file too (and not just on the /web.config). ASP.NET issues were not applicable in my case, as I was already running dasBlog 1.9.7067 on ASP.NET 2.0.
One other nice feature, dasBlog now comes with a Windows Live Writer manifest file (wlwmanifest.xml), giving you some admin shortcuts from Live Writer (or take a look before you try).
Speaking of WLW, it seems a new version (Beta 3) was released at September 5th ... save this post as draft ... download new version ... well forget just about that for a moment ... I get the message stating no Windows Live products can be installed on my OS (x64 Windows Vista).
Also Microsoft's web servers are trying to be smart again about the version you should download; Dutch version: http://g.live-int.com/1rebeta/nl-nl/WLInstaller.exe , US-English version: http://g.live-int.com/1rebeta/en-us/WLInstaller.exe. So just download the language-culture you want by substituting the path... now just waiting for the confirmation of the problem on x64 (which you can find here, semi-official).