diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/LegacyScheduledTasks.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/LegacyScheduledTasks.cs
index cb5166ff7e..1fcc34d082 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/LegacyScheduledTasks.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/LegacyScheduledTasks.cs
@@ -12,11 +12,7 @@ using global::umbraco.BusinessLogic;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Web
 {
-	// note: has to be public to be detected by the resolver
-	//   if it's made internal, which would make more sense, then it's not detected
-	//   and it needs to be manually registered - which we want to avoid, in order
-	//   to be as unobtrusive as possible
-
+	
 	internal sealed class LegacyScheduledTasks : ApplicationEventHandler
 	{
 		Timer _pingTimer;
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/Trees/ContentTreeController.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/Trees/ContentTreeController.cs
index a96fc8cdbd..5bfa20e030 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/Trees/ContentTreeController.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/Trees/ContentTreeController.cs
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web.Trees
             menu.Items.Add<ActionAssignDomain>(ui.Text("actions", ActionAssignDomain.Instance.Alias)).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
             menu.Items.Add<ActionRights>(ui.Text("actions", ActionRights.Instance.Alias)).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
             menu.Items.Add<ActionProtect>(ui.Text("actions", ActionProtect.Instance.Alias), true).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
-            menu.Items.Add<ActionUnPublish>(ui.Text("actions", ActionUnPublish.Instance.Alias), true).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
+            
             menu.Items.Add<ActionNotify>(ui.Text("actions", ActionNotify.Instance.Alias), true).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
             menu.Items.Add<ActionSendToTranslate>(ui.Text("actions", ActionSendToTranslate.Instance.Alias)).ConvertLegacyMenuItem(item, "content", "content");
 
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/publishingService.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/publishingService.cs
index af88c472cb..45af834543 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/publishingService.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/publishingService.cs
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ namespace umbraco.presentation
 
                         if (runTask)
                         {
-                            bool taskResult = getTaskByHttp(t.Url);
+                            bool taskResult = GetTaskByHttp(t.Url);
                             if (t.Log)
                                 LogHelper.Info<publishingService>(string.Format("{0} has been called with response: {1}", t.Alias, taskResult));
                         }
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ namespace umbraco.presentation
 			}
 			catch(Exception x)
 			{
-				Debug.WriteLine(x);
+                LogHelper.Error<publishingService>("Error executing scheduled publishing", x);
 			}
 			finally
 			{
@@ -102,35 +102,23 @@ namespace umbraco.presentation
 			}
 		}
 
-		private static bool getTaskByHttp(string url)
+		private static bool GetTaskByHttp(string url)
 		{
 			var myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
-			HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = null;
-			try
-			{
-				myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();
-				if(myHttpWebResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
-				{
-					myHttpWebResponse.Close();
-					return true;
-				}
-				else
-				{
-					myHttpWebResponse.Close();
-					return false;
-				}
-			}
-			catch
-			{
-			}
-			finally
-			{
-				// Release the HttpWebResponse Resource.
-				if(myHttpWebResponse != null)
-					myHttpWebResponse.Close();
-			}
 
-			return false;
+            try
+            {
+                using (var myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse())
+                {
+                    return myHttpWebResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK;
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                LogHelper.Error<publishingService>("Error sending url request for scheduled task", ex);
+            }
+
+		    return false;
 		}
 	}
 }
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