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Sitecore Feature Optimisation Playbook

Purpose: Step-by-step process for optimising any Sitecore MVC feature component —from initial evidence capture through refactoring, multi-agent review, deployment,and TOBE…

dean.obrien DeanJune 22, 2026June 22, 2026
Google Page Speed
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Using Claude to build a reusable Sitecore optimisation playbook - Part 1

This is the first of a two part series, where I want to share how Ive been using Claude to…

dean.obrien DeanMay 22, 2026June 22, 2026
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Building a crawler to load every page template in Sitecore

This article is going to look at a little crawler I built to load a minimum of 5 pages of…

dean.obrien DeanMarch 22, 2026June 22, 2026
Ai in sitecore
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10 Real World examples of Using AI in Sitecore XP (Part two).

This is the second part of a blog post, where we demonstrate 10 real world examples. Showing how we have…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 27, 2025November 27, 2025
Ai in sitecore
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10 Real World examples of Using AI in Sitecore XP (Part one).

When people talk about AI, there is often alot of theory about how it might be used, but not as…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 27, 2025November 27, 2025
Dynamics 2
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Overview: Sitecore Forms to Dynamics

If you wish to send data from Sitecore Forms directly to Dynamics, then you might consider using the Sitecore Connectâ„¢…

dean.obrien DeanMay 20, 2025October 30, 2025
webinar
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Search Analytics: Webinar

This is a recording of a presentation I gave to our Marketing department. The focus of the talk was to…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 25, 2023November 25, 2023
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender: Generating page recommendations and storing the results

This blog post is part of a larger series that looks at the steps to create aPage Recommendation Engine for…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 9, 2022December 1, 2022
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender: Collating, merging data and training our model (via the cortex processing engine)

This blog post is part of a larger series that looks at the steps to create aPage Recommendation Engine for…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 9, 2022December 1, 2022
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Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender: Trigger page level goals and events

This blog post is part of a larger series that looks at the steps to create aPage Recommendation Engine for…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 7, 2022December 1, 2022
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender: Building our Page Recommendation ML Model

This blog post is part of a larger series that looks at the steps to create aPage Recommendation Engine for…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 7, 2022December 1, 2022
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender: How to build a machine learning service

This blog post is part of a larger series that looks at the steps to create a Page Recommendation Engine…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 7, 2022December 1, 2022
page recommender
Cortex

Sitecore Page Recommender

This series of blogs will look at the steps I took to create a page recommendation engine for Sitecore. The…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 7, 2022November 27, 2024
sitecore
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Sitecore: Target Item Could Not be Found

Today we experienced an issue, which we really struggled to troubleshoot. But in the end, the solution was really quite…

dean.obrien DeanOctober 11, 2022November 25, 2022
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Unresponsive CM Instance after deployment

I want to share an issue we faced every time we made a deployment to our production environment. After each…

dean.obrien DeanJuly 10, 2022November 28, 2022
sitecore
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Upgrade identity server as part of main upgrade

I wanted to quickly share one of my experiences from an upgrade of Sitecore 9.3.0 to 10.1.2. When performing the…

dean.obrien DeanJune 25, 2022November 28, 2022
sitecore
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An issue when deploying all marketing definitions

We came across a bit of an issue when deploying all sitecore marketing definitions, during a recent upgrading our sitecore…

dean.obrien DeanMay 2, 2022November 25, 2022
SQL Server
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How to create MSSQL Image With Custom DBs Attached (using MDF/LDF files)

If MS SQL Server is running on Windows Image and the environment variable attach_dbs is detected, then it will automatically…

dean.obrien DeanApril 2, 2022November 15, 2022

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