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Sitecore Stream Setup Debugging Tips and Tricks

Sitecore Stream Setup Debugging Tips and Tricks

When I was setting up the Sitecore Stream, I ran into a few issues. I would like to share some tips and tricks that helped me resolve issues. Unknown connection string 'sitecore.aiclient.stream' Once the Sitecore stream package is installed, this error occurs if you try to

Sitecore Content Tree Search Slow and Freezes

Sitecore Content Tree Search Slow and Freezes

Issue In Sitecore Content Editor, certain search keywords will cause the browser to freeze, eventually displaying a dialogue asking if you’d like to "Wait" or "Exit" the page. The issue can be frustrating for content authors some times it would even crash. This issues occurs

Sitecore Identity Server 6 Upgrade Issue and Fix

Sitecore Identity Server 6 Upgrade Issue and Fix

I was working on upgrading from Sitecore 9.1 to version 10.3.1 and encountered a problem where the Identity Server where it failed to load. Issue When accessing the Identity Server, an error with code 502.5 was encountered. The Identity Server, being a .NET Core application, fails

Coveo for Sitecore Activation Error Fix

Coveo for Sitecore Activation Error Fix

Issue I ran into this problem when installing Coveo on Sitecore 10.3 XM with Headless SXA and NextJS. Once the package install is completed and when clicking Activate Coveo for Sitecore package it redirected to the Coveo administration page and later automatically redirects to the Sitecore login page. Even

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

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 for the detailed post that I used with Sitecore 9 that worked like a breeze. Ref: https:

Docker Engine failed to start - Fix

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 Desktop will start with this state After sometime it will get into this state Error Details The

Sitecore Development with Windows Terminal

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. No more boring black background or blue color on a powershell window. Sitecore Development In the latest

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 time and wierd issue was only sitecore sites broke not regular IIS sites. Error Details w3p.exe

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

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 token do not match in the error logs". The solution mentioned will help you fix the

Sitecore Experience Forms Export not working or slow

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 close to 25k records and the export was not working or neither showing any errors. I found

Sitecore Experience Forms - Bad JSON escape sequence

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 too. The issue occurred only on Content Delivery but worked on Content Authoring. Exception Details ERROR [Experience

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

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_TICKET". The "SC_TICKET" records corresponding to expired sessions are automatically deleted by Sitecore.

Sitecore 9 - Could not create instance of type

Sitecore 9 - Could not create instance of type

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Sitecore.Exceptions.ConfigurationException: Could not create instance of type: Sitecore.Data.Database. No matching constructor was found.

SQL Error Fix - "Login failed for user" error message when you log on to SQL Server First time after fresh install

Issue I faced this issue when I installed SQL 2012 and SQL 2014 in an Active Directory configured machine mostly this will be the case for a typical developer machine where you configure all the services in one machine. While installing I did configure the mixed mode authentication with SQL

SharePoint 2010 Fast Disk Space Part 2 (Solution)

Plan The solution for the issue would be to stop the service and clear the logs. Start the service back try to process the old click analysis. It should typically process those files and improve the link rankings. Note: This will have an impact on the search results proceed with