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
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
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
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
Couple days ago, I was installing a new Sitecore 9 XP1 topology and during my post-installations tests I received the following error while accessing the Reporting piece C’mon! You got to be kidding me… and I was telling Sitecore 9 Well, didn’t solve my problem… SOOOOOOOOOOO, let’s dig in! Let’s re-run the Reporting piece in Powershell First of … Ler mais
A powershell script to “simplify your installation” is provided by the Sitecore 9 Installation Guide, however, you can use a different way where you have to execute every JSON file individually and following a particular order, which is my preferred for now until I better understand the whole process. After analyzing the JSON files, and … Ler mais
Exactly one year ago, for the very first time, I was receiving the honor to be part of the Sitecore MVP group. Back then, I shared with you about my start, goals and how happy I was in be awarded! Last November, once again, I submitted for this year’s technical Sitecore MVP awards, and I … Ler mais
Couple weeks ago I was working on a Sitecore upgrade from 8.2 update 2 to 8.2 update 5 in order to also get EXM updated from 3.4 to 3.5 due Azure requirements. My scenario had a Content Delivery and a Content Management which was properly upgraded to Sitecore 8.2 update 5 & to EXM 3.5 … Ler mais
Last year I have written a similar blog post about being at Sitecore 8.2 and I thought that everyone was excited, well, I was WRONG! I didn’t know nothing until couple weeks ago once Sitecore 9 has been announced! A lot of changes on Sitecore 9 and I am sure you will notice those as soon as you … Ler mais
A few weeks ago I was working in an installation using Sitecore 8.2 update 2 in a Virtual Machine at Azure. As per you can see in the diagram below, I have 2 Content Delivery behind a Load Balancer to split the traffic. After setting up the Azure Load Balancer, I noticed that the traffic … Ler mais
