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Sitecore 9: Redis Private SessionState Configuration

If you are using Redis for your Sitecore 9 Private SessionState Provider on Content Delivery Servers and follow the Sitecore documentation for Update 1 located at: https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up_and_maintaining/session_state/session_state/walkthrough_configuring_a_private_session_state_database_using_the_redis_provider, you are likely to experience the following error: StackExchange.Redis.RedisConnectionException: No connection is available to service this operation: EVAL This is because Sitecore’s documentation for the Web.config changes are …

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Sitecore 9 XP1: xConnect Windows Services – Marketing Automation Engine and xConnect Search Indexer

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 …

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Sitecore 9: xConnect Endpoint Communication… Certificates, Ports, Hosts Files/DNS, and More!

Sitecore 9 brings a heavy paradigm with certificates and intra-machine communication when you decide to implement a scaled XP1 environment. You could have separate servers for each Sitecore role, or an architecture that has xConnect on one Server… CMS, Processing, and Reporting on another… and your CDS(s) serving public traffic. As you need to ensure communication between …

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Sitecore 9.0 XP1 Client Certificates Guide

Unweaving the Client Certificates required for an 9.0 XP1 scaled implementation can be a bit of a challenge, as there are several undocumented steps that need to be undertaken. Often, many will export and import the correct certificates, update connectionStrings to use the proper ThumbPrints, but not update the SSL Settings for the IIS xConnect …

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Sitecore 9: Restrict Access to the Client

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 …

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Sitecore 9 Feature: xConnect Configuration Environment (XConnectEnvironment SIF Parameter)

If you deploy xConnect using the SIF Framework, you will notice a JSON Parameter named “XConnectEnvrionment” with a description of “The configuration environment for this instance” containing a default value of “Development”.         “XConnectEnvironment”: {             “Type”: “string”,             “DefaultValue”: “Development”,             “Description”: “The configuration environment for this instance.”         }, So, what is the purpose of …

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Sitecore 9 SIF Version 1.2.0 Released

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 …

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