Hey all, Had a new client come aboard who has asked me to take a look at their Umbraco 8 site thats still being hosted on cloud. Ive tried cloning down the site (Both just direct with Sourcetree and with the old UaaS.exe tool) and in both instances, no localDB is being created. Ive noticed their appears to be a preconfigured DB connection string in the webconfig which is pointing at some Azure DB instance that no longer exists. Any way to clear the DB connection and force umbraco to spin up a new one?

Wow it's been a while.. If i recall correctly if you remove the collection string and then set the umbraco version appsetting to an empty string and start up the site, then it will run through the installer and let you configure a new db connection. Then once the site has started up you should be able to get the schema from the deploy files and restore content from the cloud env.

Yeah definitely rare these days to get an 8 site still lurking out there! Cheers, will give it a bash and see!

Np 🙂