I want to share an issue we faced every time we made a deployment to our production environment. After each…
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…
Sitecore: AlreadyExists, Contact. XdbContext Batch Execution Exception
We recently upgraded our sitecore instance from 9.3.0 to 10.1.2. With this came some major changes. One of which was…
Help! Loss of all content!
So its the weekend and i'm sat at in a soft play. We are here for my daughters' friends birthday…
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…
How to automate the building of SQL Snapshot images using scheduled tasks
Microsoft provide a framework for building container images in Azure called ACR, which can be called using the Azure CLI:…
How to create MSSQL Image With Custom DBs Attached (using BAK files)
The following Dockerfile can be used to create the custom image, using a local context. Note: This uses the MSSQL…
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…
How to create an MSSQL Server Base Image
Microsoft have removed support for ‘Windows’ based images of MS SQL server. Opting only to support Linux versions. Because of…
Sitecore: Reducing the size of the master DB
The size of our master database has continued to grow at an exceptional rate ever since we initially installed our…
Moving media from SQL to Blob Storage
Introduction First of all, a little bit about how sitecore stores media. A media item in sitecore (images / videos…
Remove orphaned blobs from sitecore database
This post covers one of the steps we took to reduce the size of our master database. With our media…
Sitecore Powershell: Remove all items that don't have media attachedSitecore Powershell:
This script will scan children of root (currently set too \sitecore\media library ) and return any items that do not…
Sitecore Powershell: Remove all items that are not referenced by others
This script will scan children of root (currently set too \sitecore\media library ) and return any items that are not…
Unable to add or delete personalisation rules
Today I wanted to add a quick blog post about a situation we came across today. Our content editors were…
Unit Testing: Which Framework?
So we were having a discussion in our team, over which testing frameworks people had used and which they thought…
Unit Testing in Sitecore
I have been playing around with Unit Testing in Sitecore today. In conducting my research, I came across a very…
University in a box: Docker and Kubernetes
This is a recording of a presentation I was asked to give to our IT Department. The focus of the…