Announced at this mornings 2019 Sitecore Symposium is the option to move to SaaS for Sitecore. While the plan is to make an initial iteration available in Summer 2020, now is the time to start planning for the considerations this move could bring. With the promise of continual updates of the base Sitecore platform, which …
Using MongoDB for xDB in Sitecore 9.2 is an option. By default, the Sitecore Installation Framework (xDB) uses the Shard Map Manger in SQL for this purpose, and is the default recommendation. However, if your requirements are to run xDB in Sitecore 9.2. using Mongo, here are the steps per the Sitecore 9.2 installation guide …
Non-optimal code in the GetDefinitions and SaveDefinitions stored procedures may cause a Sitecore 9 Reference Database under load to consume a lot of CPU resources… which can cause degradation in CD Server performance.
Sitecore provides details of this issue, and resolution in the following: https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/595419
When having multiple CD Nodes in rotation via a load balancer, its imperative to know if they are actually in rotation. While you can check the load balancer settings, you may not have access and need to determine from an front end perspective if all CD Servers are operating as expected.
A few tricks to determine if nodes are in rotation are as follows:
If you see the “Failed to instantiate a processor of type ‘”Sitecore.Xdb.MarketingAutomation.Processing.EventProcessor”” error in your Marketing Automation Engine Logs (located within the AppData/Jobs path, not the actual Marketing Automation Role), there are a few things to check. This issue is generally caused by the Marketing Automation Engine Windows Service being unable to communicate to xConnect …
Sitecore logs are a helpful resource for anyone managing their Sitecore environment… but as part of good Sitecore governance, you need to adjust the logging retention for how long to keep your Sitecore logs (this can be shorter or longer than the defaults). As the Sitecore CMS, Processing, Reporting, and CD Roles are different than …
If you are adding custom Solr collections/indexes to SolrCloud in Sitecore 9, it is important to note that the parameter order matters in your patch config (always use a patch config). Without the proper order, you are likely to receive the following error: An example patch config that would generate such an error has the …
If you are running Sitecore PaaS for versions 9.0.2 (Sitecore 9.0 Update 2) or 9.1.0 (Sitecore 9.1 Initial Release), you may run into the following error when deploying Marketing Definitions: There was an error deploying the definitions. Consult the Sitecore logs for more information. Assuming you don’t have certificate issues and can successfully populate and …
No You Don’t! I will explain why in a moment… and why you might want to. Sitecore 9.1 includes two new roles supporting Cortex, Sitecore’s Artificial Intelligence Engine focused to Machine Learning. These are the Cortex Processing and Cortex Reporting Roles. Better known as the Sitecore Cortex Processing Engine and Sitecore Cortex Reporting Foundation. Sitecore …
Sitecore Installation Framework 2.1.0 has been released. This version is required if you want to deploy Sitecore 9.1 Update 1.
You can obtain this version at https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-powershell/package/nuget/SitecoreInstallFramework/2.1.0
If you are using PowerShell to get the package you would use a call akin to the following. Note, its a good practice to still download Sitecore Fundamentals for standard operations:
Register-PSRepository -Name sc-powershell -SourceLocation https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-powershell/api/v2
# Install Sitecore Fundamentals (Required for Standard Operations)
Install-Module -Name "SitecoreFundamentals" -RequiredVersion "1.1.0" -Repository "sc-powershell" -Force
# Install Sitecore Install Framework
Install-Module -Name "SitecoreInstallFramework" -RequiredVersion "2.1.0" -Repository "sc-powershell" -Force