Why admin/b does not work anymore?

Recently I had to install Sitecore 9.2, and before get thousand of errors by using my Powershell scripts I decided to have a look in the Installation Guide As you may know, you can provision a Sitecore environment either sending parameters through Powershell script or you can modify directly in the JSON files and execute … Ler mais

Adding Publishing Targets in Sitecore 9.1

As you probably know Sitecore standards send the content from Master to Web database (or publishing database if you prefer), however, Sitecore also provides a way to add more publishing targets. Do you wonder why multiple publishing targets are required? Back in 2011, John West listed some good reasons to have multiple publishing targets Traffic, … Ler mais

Replace Sitecore license in Azure PaaS at once

You already went through changing Sitecore license either on-premises or PaaS, and if that’s the case you know how painful it can become, specially for scaled environments and since Sitecore 9 the license path has changed you should be careful to put everything where it belongs to Yesterday I was told to replace the Sitecore … Ler mais

[Solved] Application Insights not working on Sitecore 9.1 PaaS

A couple weeks ago I’ve asked a question in Sitecore Stackexchange explaining that the Sitecore 9.1 PaaS our team has provisioned in Azure was not providing data to the Application Insights. I went through the existing post Accessing log files in application insitghts for Sitecore 9 in Azure app service which allowed me to execute some … Ler mais

[Solved] Unicorn issue with Sitecore Identity

I’ve started to work at the Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery part in a Sitecore project. As I am not familiarized with the process, I decided to create my very first Sitecore project/solution in Visual Studio, and also following the requirements of the project, installed Unicorn on it. While I was installing Visual Studio, I … Ler mais

Sitecore announces 2019 MVPs

WOW! Cannot believe it is that time of the year again when Sitecore announces 2019 MVP. I remember exactly how my day looked like when I was first awarded as Sitecore MVP back in 2017, and once again in 2018, now for the third time in a row I have been awarded with such honor in … Ler mais

Sitecore connecting to MongoDB using SSL

After configuring valid certificates in MongoDB it is time to establish the communication from Sitecore to MongoDB, and unfortunately Sitecore does not communicate with Mongo using SSL Out of the box. I found a good article that explain how to achieve it, however, I don’t have any experience on it and had to ask for help to my … Ler mais

Using Valid Certificates to Configure MongoDB for SSL/TLS

I was told to configure MongoDB for SSL/TLS for a production environment which means I would have to use VALID CERTIFICATES! For production use, your MongoDB deployment should use valid certificates generated and signed by a single certificate authority. And as I wanted to go fancy, I choose to setup MongoDB with Certificate Validation that … Ler mais

[SOLVED] Sitecore 9 update 1 XP0 topology ‘sqlcmd’ is not recognized error

A week ago, I was trying to provision a Sitecore 9 Update 1 XP0 topology and everything was great, until the step CreateShardApplicationDatabaseServerLoginSqlCmd As you can see, it complains about sqlcmd is not recognized as the name of the cmdlet. This is way weird as Sitecore 9 Installation Guide does not mention anything about it. I was not … Ler mais