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Pasting multiple cells into Excel from PowerShell
Sometimes the learning point from working on a misbehaving Sitecore server isn’t related to the CMS. Recently I learned something useful about Excel while I was addressing some other issues. Not sure...
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Dealing with .tar.gz files on Windows Server
A couple of times recently, I’ve found myself needing to deploy files that come wrapped in a .tar.gz archive onto servers. On your desktop that’s not too much of a problem – you just run the installer...
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A pain point with “Trusted Connection” in Sitecore v9.1
One of the projects I’m working on at the moment came with a requirement to change Sitecore v9.1 from running with the default SQL Security accounts to trusted connections using specific Active...
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A little PowerShell hack for sending files to a remote machine
I was asked to do some configuration on a remote computer recently, and discovered that the security-concious network admins had locked down the ability for me to share my local computer’s files with...
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Logging generated passwords in SIF
I’ve been looking at adjusting SIF scripts for a production deployment recently, and realised that sometimes you’d like SIF to generate random passwords for you, but you need them logged so you can...
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Pay attention to your index exclusions
I hit an interesting issue recently: Some code that worked fine on a QA instance of Sitecore had been deployed for UAT and was now failing with an odd error message. Whilst this issue was entirely our...
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Shooting myself in the foot with Marketing Automation
I had another of my fun chats with Sitecore Support recently, for an issue that seemed to get no useful results in Google when I looked. So, as is my way, I’m filling that search-engine void today....
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Another Marketing Automation gotcha
Following on from my recent post about how I was able to mess up my life by getting Marketing Automation connection strings wrong, I hit another interesting issue with MA – this time around content...
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Clearing up a little confusion with Let’s Encrypt’s DNS challenges
I love Let’s Encrypt. I’ve been using SSL for all my personal projects for years. Until they came along I was using self-signed certificates and manually adding my own root certificate to all the...
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An edge case of remote events with Publishing Service
I’ve been working on an international deployment of Sitecore recently, and resolving some problems around how publishing raises remote events has demonstrated that there are some things about the...
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Caching when you have duplicate container components
In theory, the magic of Dynamic Placeholders lets us have a container component placed onto your page more than once. That didn’t work in the old world of “static” placeholders, because the rendering...
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Reformatting config XML so it’s easier to diff
Every so often pretty much every developer ends up in a situation where they’re looking at a bug that manifests on one platform, but not on another. The sort of bug where you end up spending hours...
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