18May, 2020
To remove an item from your site you need to first publish it as unpublishable or publish its parent with all subitems opted in. We'll go through these steps plus a way your Administrator can help you if all else fails.
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05May, 2020
Our typical scaled Sitecore environments will consist of anywhere between 4-6 instances, depending on pre or post version 9, so being able to automate updates to them certainly saves a lot of time. The time required to perform a conventional package installation and to extract the updated files and drop them into delivery instances becomes costly over many months for larger engagements, so using the tools we have available to us is a necessity. Today I'm going to provide a complete guide for setting this up using HedgeHog TDS and Azure Devops.
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13Apr, 2020
With Sitecore 9 we have a great new feature, which is Configuration Layers. These layers allow for the control and separation of config files, such as keeping your custom configs away from the Out-of-the-box ones. This is, and has always been recommended practice, and layers make it easier to control.
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03Apr, 2020
Sitecore 9 has brought us a lot of new features, but the one I am most excited to use is role-based configurations. Non-developers beware; this will be a pretty boring subject matter for you, but you Managers might want to know this feature reduces solution and deployment complexity, which in turn reduces risk and increases efficiency.
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16Mar, 2020
With any project there comes a time when we grant access to the client's authors. I guess that's the whole point of a CMS, right? But during this transition period I always keep an eye on the Content Management instance's performance to ensure everything is running as it should be, and excessive publishing is a common issue we have to address.
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