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A Day with Sitecore Search

We recently purchased Sitecore Search and today was my first chance to have a look at the product in detail…

dean.obrien DeanJuly 21, 2023July 24, 2023
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Device Detection

Device Detection service failing to initialise

We recently experienced an issue after an upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3, whereby our Device Detection service was failing to…

dean.obrien DeanMay 28, 2023November 28, 2023
Sitecore Personalisation
Composable

Personalisation Demo Site

This post will look at a simple site that showcases some basic personalisation within sitecore, built using C# MVC and…

dean.obrien DeanMay 25, 2023May 25, 2023
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Composable

Moving from DXP To XM Cloud

As discussed at SUGCON this year, there seems to be a real buzz in the sitecore community, about the move…

dean.obrien DeanMay 24, 2023May 25, 2023
kubernetes
Kubernetes

Domain not mapping through to Sitecore site in Kubernetes cluster

I came across an issue a while back when deploying Sitecore to Kubernetes, that had me stumped for several weeks.…

dean.obrien DeanMay 5, 2023November 16, 2023
sitecore
Sql

Items not being indexed after publish

Our marketing team recently reported an issue, whereby items where no longer being automatically indexed after a publish. Upon further…

dean.obrien DeanApril 15, 2023April 15, 2023
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Sugcon

SUGCON 2023 - A composable future for Sitecore

If there was one word to take away from the conference, then it would be the word COMPOSABLE. This sums…

dean.obrien DeanMarch 27, 2023March 27, 2023
sitecore
Xconnect

Issues Migrating Data from Sitecore 9.3 to 10.1

We recently undertook an upgrade of our Sitecore installation from version 9.3 to 10.1.2. This blog post will look at…

dean.obrien DeanJanuary 23, 2023January 23, 2023
sitecore
MVP

MVP Application 2023

These are the contributons that I would like to be considered as part of my application to become a Sitecore…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 30, 2022September 28, 2023
Application Insights for Sitcore Module
Analytics

Application Insights for Sitecore Module

I would like to introduce the Application Insights for Sitecore Module! Some of the key benefits of this module are…

dean.obrien DeanNovember 21, 2022October 15, 2025
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
page recommender
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
Uncategorized

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
xconnect
Xconnect

How to confirm data is flowing into xconnect

After setting up a new sitecore XP instance or upgrading a new one, you might find yourself wanting to confirm…

dean.obrien DeanSeptember 21, 2022November 25, 2022

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