Sitecore 9 XP1 implementations establish two key Windows Services supporting xConnect (that are created as Windows Services via the SIF, but other options exist…. more on that later). These are the Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine and Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer components. Each has distinct responsibilities in ensuring that xConnect properly functions so if xConnect is …
Locking down your Content Delivery servers so external users can’t access your content management capabilities and Admin pages is one of the top security steps you need to undertake when deploying a new Sitecore environment. The first step is to implement IP-based security restrictions: Instructions for IIS 7 and greater are as follows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webServer/security/ipSecurity/ The …
If you are using SIF Version 1.1.0 to generate Self-Signed Certificates and need to export these to other machines as part of a scaled environment, you may find that you are unable to export the Private Keys along with the certificate. In fact, the option to export is grayed out: SIF Version 1.1.0 Created Certificate: …
Sitecore has updated the Sitecore 9 SIF to Version 1.2.0. New features include Tasks for allowing “enabling, disabling and deleting configurations by reading an IO xml file (*.ioxml)” and transforming “XML documents by applying XML Document Transformation (xdt) files”. Resolved bugs includes resolution of the “certificate private key path on Windows 8.1/2012” and corrections to input hash …