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Secure Sitecore Vanity Domains with Azure Function Apps

Requisite We always run into the request of Vanity domains that would just redirect to a Sitecore site or sometimes we would need to do some redirects too. In today's world, we need

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SitecoreMVP

Sitecore Technology MVP 2023

About the Award Now in it’s 17th year, the MVP program recognizes professionals who actively share their fascination, knowledge and expertise with online and offline Sitecore communities to help them best utilize

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Sitecore

Sitecore 10.3 Embeddable Forms Framework

Introduction Sitecore Embeddable Forms Framework (EFF) is a new framework launched with Sitecore 10.3, that enables the Sitecore forms to be added to any website using simple javascript code and stylesheet reference,

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Sitecore

Sitecore.20221128.174503.log

Lot of learning this year with new technology stack, headless, JSS, ReactJS, Docker and AKS. Ordercloud implementation with Sitecore XM. I wish I had more time to write about it. I will do

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Sitecore

Sitecore Symposium 2022 Highlights

CEO Steve Tzikakis “If you can win that extra 1%, imagine the impact that will have on your business” CMO Paige O’Neil Mute the Noise, Stand Out and Build Boldly. CPO Dave

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Coveo

Coveo Custom Pipeline to Index Sitecore Items without Layout

Problem When using the Coveo.SearchProvider.CoveoInboundFilters.HasLayoutInboundFilter pipeline, Coveo doesnt not index the items without layout. But some time we would need the items to be indexed even without a layout or

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Sitecore

Let us mitigate Sitecore SOLR Log4J vulnerability with ease

Introduction Log4J Security Alert addresses CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j. It is remotely exploitable without authentication, attackers can remotely run any code to gain access to all data on

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Sitecore

Is Sitecore XP to XM a Downgrade?

The world is moving towards composable architecture. There have been a lot of interest and thoughts about moving Sitecore XP to XM. It eventually paves for the composable future, moving the personalization to

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SitecoreMVP

Deploy Sitecore Solution to Docker and Kubernetes - Sitecore VDD

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Azure

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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