Occasionally, you may run into a bad instance with hung processes or connections in a Sitecore Azure PaaS Environment. When this occurs, there are few options for managing these instances… in order from least impactful to most impactful on your Application Service. Health Check Azure App Services have a Health Check feature, within the Monitoring …
Securing your Sitecore environment is a critical, albeit not as “fun” task, that every organization should undertake. While not comprehensive of everything you can do to lock down a Sitecore environment, these “5 Quick Tips” can dramatically improve your security posture while improving the stability and speed of your Sitecore environment. Use a Web Application …
When running Sitecore in Azure PaaS, you may experience the following error in a Sitecore Identity Server. At first you may be wondering if the site is gone, your domain has something off, or maybe the default page is wrong in Azure… but a 404 for a Sitecore Identity Server may be something else entirely! …
Do you enjoy last second insane adrenaline life on the line type decisions? If so, then this article is not for you. Learn how to successfully plan a low-risk launch of your Sitecore site, whether a new implementation or a rebrand, by focusing on the roles and responsibilities for launch, communication planning, and a step-by-step …
Field validation is an important aspect of Sitecore governance. Without this, content authors may miss important fields that require values for your Sitecore environment to properly function. With this in mind, setting a required field(s) may not be enough to prevent an item from being saved. In essence, you can have a required field(s), but …
Sitecore Serialization is a powerful capability to leverage with your DevOps pipelines. There are a ton of options beyond publishing via serialization, but for the sake of this article we will walk through one method of automating serialization via Azure DevOps and Sitecore Serialization. This has the following assumptions: Our step for Sitecore Serialization (using …
When leveraging Deployment Slots for your PaaS Sitecore environment you may want differing configs per Deployment Slot. This article discusses why you would want differing configs and how to setup custom config files so they are applied per Slot. This assumes you have a single deployment source that can be deployed across differing targets such …
Sitecore XM PaaS uses Redis for its Session State and it’s a common option to use Redis in this instance for Sitecore in other scenarios (ex. XP, XM on IaaS, etc.). However, what if you have custom objects that require shared storage? This is where adding a second Redis instance for your custom objects comes …
Solr is used to power both operational and custom search indexes in Sitecore, but there are times in which you may want to access this data outside the normal Sitecore usage. A few examples are as follows: You may have other needs, but the bottom line is that there are a few methods to directly …
Having a unified login experience where users can leverage their social logins and other providers is a highly desired feature for member and customer-based portals. Incorporating each separate authentication and authorization service on their own is a large and implicitly costly endeavor, especially when factoring in keeping connections up to date to meet the requirements …