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How to deploy Sitecore web deploy packages using the VSTS Azure App Service task
With the introduction of the Sitecore 8.2, Sitecore also introduced some Sitecore web deployment packages (WDP), which are used by the Sitecore-Azure-Quickstart-Templates for the deployment of...
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How to update the default hashing algorithm for Sitecore 9 to SHA512 using...
A few years ago I already blogged on updating the default hashing algorithm that Sitecore used. It’s ancient, unsafe and it’s for a change! Luckily, with the introduction of msdeploy packages and the...
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Federated Authentication in Sitecore – Error: Unsuccessful login with...
I faced this error quite a few times now and I always forget what the root cause of this error was. To keep me away from debugging and reflecting code again I wrote this blogpost When the claim...
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Private Sitecore nuget feeds using VSTS – why we don’t use Sitecore myget and...
First of all: hands down to Sitecore when they created the nuget feed a while back: it’s really, really convenient to be able to use a nuget feed for all those Sitecore packages, including their...
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My Sitecore Symposium session – World’s fasted delivery pipeline for Sitecore...
On October 9th I presented for the 3rd time at the Sitecore Symposium. After a security session, our session with Robbie the Robot, I chose to give some insights into our delivery pipeline for Sitecore...
View ArticleAutomate your pipeline part 1: World’s fastest delivery pipeline for Sitecore...
On October 9th I presented for the 3rd time at the Sitecore Symposium. In my previous blogpost I described shared how I felt during the creation of this presentation and on the day itself. In this...
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Speed up your deployments – parallel app service deployments in Azure DevOps
Note: Although this blogpost series is focused towards deploying Sitecore with the speed of light, all the information in this blogpost regular web applications and app service deployments Deploying...
View ArticleWarmup your application on Azure App service when scaling up and swapping...
A common problem on Azure web apps when scaling up or swapping slots is “stuttering”. At the moment an instance is added to the pool (scale out) or your swap is swapped (reload the app on the slot),...
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Increase your (Sitecore) performance by enabling the local cache on Azure App...
Although this blog focuses primarily on Sitecore, this blogpost is applicable for any application which is hosted on an Windows Azure App Service. The file system,which is used by Azure App Services,...
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Warmup your Sitecore on Azure App Service applications when using Slot settings
Using deployment slots in Azure App Services is a best practice to deploy Sitecore your application with zero downtime. However, there are some drawbacks, for example when slot specific settings are...
View ArticleHow to query xConnect using the tracker ContactID in Sitecore
There are situations where not all custom facets have been loaded into your session, or where you want to explicitly check for updates on a custom facet in xConnect, for example when external systems...
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Enabling the application map in Application Insights for Sitecore to monitor...
In the out of the box configuration for Sitecore on Azure, application insights has been enabled by default. However, this configuration is optimally configured. In normal situations, it’s very...
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Using Application Insights Annotations and how to trigger them within your...
Recently I discovered the possibility of adding notes to specific point s in time on the application insights classic metrics. This is a very interesting way of marking specific, important events in...
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Using Application Insights annotations to mark publishing events in Sitecore
In my previous blogpost I described how to create annotations within an application. This blogpost explains how this was integrated in Sitecore and how it could have helped in analyzing our severe...
View ArticleJSS beginner issues: Placeholder ‘xxx’ was not found in the current rendering...
Currently, I am researching JSS and I must say: it’s great. So far, I ran into a few issues and although the documentation is great (I would recommend everyone to checkout the styleguide in the...
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JSS beginner issues: using the ReactiveFormsModule – Can’t bind to...
although being a total JSS and angular newbie, I wanted to create some nice forms, use an API and use some state in my application. The internet is full of solutions, but none of them fixed my issue....
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Sitecore on Azure – design considerations to be more cost efficient and have...
After working for quite a while with a lot of Sitecore workloads on Azure, we have built up quite some experience with regards to scale and costs management. Although Sitecore has some predefined...
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How to: Create a DTU consumption overview using Azure Metrics
In a previous blogpost I showed a small overview of DTU consumptions of all Sitecore databases and how to use that overview to reduce your costs. This blogpost will explain step by step how to create...
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To Elastic pool or not to elastic Pool for Sitecore on Azure
In the Sitecore #azure slack channel there are often discussions about pricing, scaling and performance. A common best practice which is shared in this channel is the use of Elastic Pools for your SQL...
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Azure Search for Sitecore design considerations
Azure Search makes up for a significant amount of costs within a Sitecore on Azure setup; apart from these costs, there are often issues with Azure Search and clients tend to move away from Azure...
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