Reallife - Bala Blog | Sitecore MVP | Coveo MVP | DX MVP

Reallife

A collection of 11 posts

Extract Sitecore Media Library Items

Extract Sitecore Media Library Items

I recently came across a requirement to set up a DAM for a Sitecore instance. The ask is to move existing media library items to the DAM. Plan * Extract all the images and documents using PowerShell scripts. * The extract will also generate an Excel sheet with the path and other

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

Azure CDN for Sitecore

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 their location to reduce latency and improve load times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

Sitecore External User builder for Azure Active Directory Integration

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 could achieve this with a simple custom user builder. We need to ensure the default functionality is

Sitecore OrderCloud Certification Tips and Tricks

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 Planning is important set a goal date to get the certification and work towards it. In my

Sitecore.20211128.160143.log

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 wish I had more time to write about my JSS journey. But I will do a series

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 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 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

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