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: …
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 …
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 …
If you are following the Sitecore 9 Update 1 Installation Guide, you may note that the prerequisites for SIF can lead to failures with SQL Communication if you are installing a scaled Sitecore environment (ex. SQL is installed on one server, while your Sitecore roles are installed on separate servers). You may not experience issues if you …