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Hotfix Wiped Out My Roles

In this article we will see how the Default Identity Provider used with Identity Server learned a new behavior with role management when...

Sitecore - Safely Use HttpClient

Earlier this year I gave a presentation at SUGCON Europe on safe usage of the .NET HttpClient in Sitecore called Stop Worrying and Love the...

sc_itemid Query String – Having a detrimental effect on the SEO

If the sc_itemid query string has a valid sitecore item ID (and or sitecore...

Is the custom Sitecore field type being used?

Took over a 18 year old sitecore solution, which had a number of custom field types and before upgrading to Sitecore 10 of course we wanted...

Replacement Task Scheduler for Sitecore

In this article we discuss some of the challenges with the out-of-the-box Task Scheduler included with Sitecore and see how you can replace...

Progress bar with progress messages for long running processes.

Sitecore has made it very easy from within the sitecore client to click a...

A while ago I wrote a blogpost on Sitecore & Azure Durable Functions, which looked at off loading CPU/Memory intensive scheduled tasks. I recently encountered the same issue on another Sitecore solution that was...

Wrong Language

We have a very big Sitecore solution with over 3000 editors, unfortunately they spend a great deal of time creating a content in the wrong language.Easy enough to fix a single item, but when each page has a lot of...

Sitecore Technology MVP 2022!

Seven is my lucky number. And being awarded an MVP title even once is an amazing honor. So you can imagine how proud and grateful I am to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for the seventh time in a row!...

Interactive Sitecore CDP and Personalize Learning Mind Map

I’ve spent a few weeks learning Sitecore CDP & Personalize and thought to share my learnings with you! As it is a new product it takes some time to get your head around it. To simplify your learning, I’ve...

Learnings from Sitecore CDP and Personalize Certification Exam

Recently I was able to appear for the #Sitecore CDP Exam and I would like to share my learnings with you. So, it helps you to also achieve the same! Humble to be the #Sitecore CDP Certified Developer in the...

Impact of apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228 for your Sitecore Applications

By this time you might have already heard/read about Apache Solr Log4J Security Vulnerability: https://solr.apache.org/security.html#apache-solr-affected-by-apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228 I’ve been also gathering...

Magical Github Actions – Setup and run your local Docker Sitecore instance with Github Actions and workflow inputs

Merry Christmas dear Sitecorians! I hope you guys are well and enjoying December Today’s blog post will be about running your local Docker Sitecore site with Github Actions using workflow inputs – it’s…...

Sitecore Command Line error on dotnet sitecore login

Hey fellow developers, this is a very short post I recently got an error when trying to do a dotnet sitecore login. Unhandled exception: System.Exception: Unhandled exception ---> System.NullReferenceException:...

Content Hub API integrations

For quite a while, Action Scripts do not support the use of System.Net.Http.HttpClient anymore and I think that is a good measure to prevent action scripts from doing external (API) calls and enforce an implementation...

Setup SolrCloud for Sitecore 10 in Kubernetes

Dear fellow Sitecore developers, I hope you are well out there What a month November was/is! Sitecore released 10.2 and Microsoft released .Net 6 and VisualStudio 2022 – Pure joy for all .Net developers! What I...

Sitecore high CPU usage – is the SQL Session State Provider the villain?

My massive Sitecore 9.1 installation started having CPU spikes, even when the servers did not seem to receive more requests. When CPU spiked, I could see that the requests queue would build up, until it crashed with the following error: System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): The request queue limit of the session is exceeded.at System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.QueueRef()at...