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Azure CDN for Sitecore

What is CDN? Definition In simple words the website and assets are cached in multiple servers across the world. When a user visits the site they are served from the nearest server to

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Sitecore

Sitecore External User builder for Azure Active Directory Integration

Issue: When we integrate any external identity provider, the default user domain is always Sitecore. We will need to differentiate external users from the Sitecore based user logins in User manager. Solution: We

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Sitecore

Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Tips and Tricks

The Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Exam will test your knowledge regarding the development for Sitecore OrderCloud. I am not a commerce developer and I wanted to learn this platform and I started exploring. Plan

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SitecoreMVP

Sitecore Technology MVP 2022

About the Award Recognizing professionals within the Sitecore community who actively apply their talent and expertise to help others best utilize Sitecore products to deliver premier customer experiences, the MVP program is now

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Sitecore

Sitecore.20211128.160143.log

2021 year started slow later picked up the pace. Lot of learning this year with new technology stack, headless, JSS, ReactJS, Docker and AKS. Ordercloud and moosend in the pipeline for 2022. I

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Sitecore

Sitecore 10 Certification Tips and Tricks

Plan Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my case I set a couple of weeks time-line and tracked it every week about the

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Azure

Sitecore 10 Identity Azure AD ExternalUserBuilder No matching constructor was found - Error Fix

Issue While building a custom external user builder for Sitecore 10 with Azure AD integration for Sitecore Identity server. I stumpled upon this issue that was new with Sitecore 10. Thank you Derek

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Sitecore TDS Common Errors and Fixes

Common Errors I have curated a list of common errors that, I have faced while working with TDS also added some from the community. Quick Debug Tips Visual Studio Output Use the VS

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Issue

Docker Engine failed to start - Fix

Issue Docker Desktop will not start after Install or an upgrade with an error Docker engine failed to start. Docker Desktop version: 3.5.1 (66501) Windows Version: Windows 10 20H2 Opening Docker

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Sitecore

Sitecore Development with Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal The new windows terminal is more modern, productive and comes with powerful options. Its like a Chrome browser in the terminal world. Create multiple tabs with a new look and feel.

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Sitecore

Sitecore TDS Tips and Tricks

What's New? Developer friendly brings Sitecore items into Visual Studio while reducing developer's deployment time to almost zero. YAML Serialization compatibility with Sitecore 9.2+ Xml Serialization for older version WDP Deployment Sitecore

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Sitecore

Sitecore 503 Service Unavailable Error Fix

Issue Sitecore websites will not start after a server reboot. We faced this issue across all our environments and trying to figure out why would this happen. We didnt have deployments during that

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Sitecore

Sitecore Experience Forms - The anti-forgery cookie token and form field token do not match.

Issue Sitecore experience form submission will throw an error on submit and not complete. When you investigate the log if you see the following error "The anti-forgery cookie token and form field

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SitecoreMVP

Sitecore Technology MVP 2021

About the Award Recognizing professionals who deliver outstanding customer experiences through shared expertise on Sitecore’s products, the 2021 MVP program draws from a community of 12,000 certified developers and over 20,

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Sitecore

Sitecore Experience Forms Export not working or slow

Issue The forms with more entries fails on data export to csv Form export fails with no message. Export too slow if it works. In my case I had a form that had

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Sitecore

Sitecore.20201118.100449.log

2020 a year we want to be over. Wish everything was well with you and your family during this tough times. Let's look at the positive things for a moment. Virtual became the

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Sitecore

Sitecore Experience Forms - Bad JSON escape sequence

Description Sitecore on form submission, submit action fails. We had multiple submit action. Save action worked and rest of all the actions failed. We also had a custom submit action that was failing

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Performance

Spice up Sitecore Performance with IIS

Let's walk through quick and easy ways to improve Sitecore Performance at the IIS level. The tips and tricks are mostly used when we setup a new environment. The changes mentioned will need

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Sitecore

Sitecore 9 - An error occurred when trying to Log-in

Description When you try to login to Sitecore backend you would get an error occured message. When a session expires in Sitecore the information is logged in the properties table as "SC_

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Sitecore

Sitecore Experience Forms - Add to a webpage without layouts

How it works ? Lets understand the way it works. The Sitecore recommended way of adding forms to a web page is to create a new layout and add the forms html helpers and

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Sitecore

Secret recipe of Sitecore Device Detection

What is Device Detection? Device detection is a technology that recognizes the devices being used to access the website. This will include detailed information about the device like model, processing power, browser type,

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Sitecore

Sitecore 9.3 Certification Tips and Tricks

Plan Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my case I set a month time-line and tracked it every week about the progress. Be

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Sitecore

Sitecore 9.1 Experience Editor Performance Issue

Issue Experience editor mode the performance is slow. It takes more than a minute to load the page before we can use it. Site loads in 5 seconds and editing is working after

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Sitecore

Remote Debugging Sitecore with Visual Studio

Why is this needed? Can't reproduce the issue in the Sitecore instance available in developer machine No Visual Studio on the server (Mostly Stage and Prod) Additional logging hasn't helped or discrepancies between

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Sitecore

Sitecore Admin Password Hacks

The presented hack expects you to have access to the SQL core db. I didn’t use this a lot before exploring Sitecore 9 that’s when I realized to make this post.

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