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Banner image for Reviewing my 2024 Sitecore MVP contributions article

It's that time of year again! No, not Thanksgiving, Black Friday, holiday preparations, etc. I'm talking about Sitecore MVP application time!

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Banner image for Live Dangerously and Ignore Those GeoIp Warnings! article

Or don't. But you should. During a new rollout of Sitecore 10.3 I found thousands of warnings in my logs which should be ignored as they are at the wrong level, and I can show you how to keep a clean log against them as well.

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Banner image for Lessons Learned From Troubleshooting GeoIp Results in Sitecore article

We're closing in on the final phases of a Sitecore upgrade, which leverages GeoIp for CTAs and branding throughout the site including the global navigation. Invariably, we get reports from the testing team of inaccurate results. Today I'll walk through the validation and tricks I've used when I need to support someone without being at their same location.

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Banner image for Making Transferring User Passwords Between Instances a Little Faster article

Part of my Sitecore upgrade projects this year is to copy data from the old instance to the new ones. One of those tasks will be to copy Users, and of course, their passwords. You've probably seen Sitecore's ASPX file which allows you to transfer User passwords between Sitecore instances. This is needed since Users that are exported/imported will have their passwords scrambled or set to “b”. The tool only allows for one User to be selected at a time, but this small tweak let's you choose a limitless number of Users at a time. 

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Banner image for The Coming of Sitecore 10.1 Means It's Necessary to Move HTML Content From the Multi-Line Text Field to Rich Text Field Type article

Another change the team has found recently was the ability to place HTML content in fields has been updated. Though it was never meant to contain HTML, the Multi-line text field allowed it, and even though this is poor practice, at times our hands are forced.

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