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How to fix issues after accidentally cleaning up stuff in your windowsfilter
They tell you never to manually remove directories, what can go wrong? Sometimes it is good to introduce some chaos to your system, this time I intentionally...
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Housekeeping Your Sitecore Docker Images
Introduction From time to time, updates are released for the Sitecore XM Cloud base images due to new and/or updated features. When you start your local cont...
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Round 3 - Mitigating CVE-2021-45105 Log4j for your Sitecore SOLR installs
Round 3 - CVE-2021-45105 In my [previous posts](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-45046/) and [previous posts](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-44228/) I've...
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Round 2 - Mitigating CVE-2021-45046 Log4j for your Sitecore SOLR installs
Update Because of CVE-2021-45105 and the release of log2j 2.17.0 this post and the script have been updated to log2j 2.17.0. Round 2 - Mitigating CVE-2021-...
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Mitigating CVE-2021-44228 Log4j for your Sitecore SOLR installs
UPDATE Please also read [my next blogpost](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-45046/) on how to upgrade log4j in your local Solr instances for Sitecore. Pleas...
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A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'AllowPrerelease'
D:\git\alex\sitecore-102\compose\ltsc2019\xp0\compose-init.ps1 : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'AllowPrerelease'. At line:1 char:1 +...
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Docker Desktop - A Next-Next-Finish mistake
A couple of months ago I was struggling with getting my containers up and running again after a smooth period fiddling with containers. I started running into...
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8 mistakes you really do not want to find on Google about your Sitecore website
Adding new features and value to your Sitecore platform is always great. But sometimes people tend to lose focus on keeping it all nice and tidy. In this blog...
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Download all 485 NuGet packages for Sitecore 10.0.0 with this one line command in under 3 minutes!
Are you wondering how fast and easy you can get those packages for Sitecore 10.0.0 downloaded with all possible package dependencies in a jiffy? This one-lin...
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Using 100% free tools to watch your Sitecore logging using Visual Studio Code and a single extension
Developers often need to work their way through Sitecore logs while developing Sitecore stuff. Since there are a lot of those locations and log categories you...
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Create your own performance counters for Sitecore 9 on Azure (Application Insights) or on-premise (Performance Monitor)
Everybody likes performance counters, don't you? They give a lot more information on what actually happens on your platform. Do you like using custom caches in...
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Why you definitely should upgrade to Sitecore 9.2? Because of...?
Azure Redis Cache and the RedisSessionStateProvider, and especially the SessionExpirationThreadCount setting. It all has to do with a better thread management...
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Fixing the Sitecore Content Testing Index, Experience Optimization, Active Tests and Historical Tests for real
When you are working with Sitecore 9.0.1 (9.0.171219) in Azure with Azure Search you might be familiar with or experience the following symptoms. - In your Co...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 7 - Working with XDB Data and Application Insights
How cool would it be if you could get XDB data out of Sitecore just using a simple instruction to your bot? Getting XDB data out of Sitecore using a Bot Why...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 6 - Publishing and publish notifications
Publishing specific items or just the entire database? Just ask a Bot and it will be done. Publishing your website with the Microsoft Bot Framework I’ve imp...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 5 - User Management
Managing Sitecore users normally requires you to log into Sitecore, navigate to the User Manager and lookup the specific user. This could also be done with the...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 4 - Rebuilding Sitecore indexes
Rebuilding indexes, who doesn’t do this on almost a daily base? Logging into Sitecore, navigate to the control panel, opening the indexing manager and check th...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 3 - LUIS model and FormFlow
"We have created a Bot for you!" doesn't mean "We have created 300 if-statements for you!". Microsoft Cognitive Services gives you LUIS and you must use this L...
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Sitecore and Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 2 - Secure communication
Expecting things to be secure isn't an option. Communication in a secure manner between the Microsoft Bot Framework and Sitecore. Secure communication betwee...
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Leveraging the Microsoft Bot Framework to operate Sitecore
In all my SUGNL presentations I have a goal that I would like to inspire people or at least provide them with some great ideas or takeaways of value. On the 19...
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Solving errors when deploying marketing definitions
Ever stumbled upon unexplainable errors while working with Sitecore? Exotic exceptions can and will appear in your Sitecore logs when you are working with migr...
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Reports not working in Webforms For Marketers 8.0? “Could not create controller: 'FormReports'”
Last Friday I installed Webforms For Marketers 8.0 in my Sitecore 8 instance where I’m working on a client’s Sitecore platform. After installation I added the...
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Item Bucket Settings: Creating awesome rules to rule your folder structure
In Sitecore 7.5 there are great new features available like the settings for Item Buckets and especially conditions and actions for resolving the Bucket Folder...