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Banner image for Cutting a Useragent's Value When It Exceeds the Maximum Possible Length for xDB Databases article

It's taken years of managing Sitecore sites for this one to come across my desk, but apparently there's no protection for the UserAgent value being longer than the maximum allowed length when saving the User's session to the xDB. Though it's fixed since version 10, there's no patch for earlier instances, so we're going to have to add our own pipeline processor to cut the offending UserAgent values short.

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Banner image for Dynamic Placeholder Management When You Can't, or Don't Want to Use Experience Editor article

Ok, so dynamic placeholders are very cool and definitely needed, but unlike standard placeholders we depend on using the experience editor to manage them. But what if it's not working, hasn't been coded properly to use EE, or is just too plain slow? Today I'll show you how to manage them with the much faster and more reliable content editor.

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Banner image for Classic Application Insights Will Be Retired Soon, but What Do I Need to Do With Sitecore Managed Cloud? article

Classic Application Insights is set to retire February 29th, 2024 and Administrators are encouraged to migrate to workspace-based Application Insights as soon as possible. But what does this mean for Sitecore Managed Cloud environments?

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Banner image for Moving From Sitecore's MyGet to NuGet Public Feed Might Be a Good Idea After Today's Outage article

Many organizations experienced build issues after MyGet's outage on July 26th. The transition to NuGet is coming for later this year, so there's no reason to wait. 

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Banner image for Broken PowerShell Methods After Sitecore Security Bulletin SC2023-003-587441 Due to Versioning Differences article

The most recent security patch from Sitecore addressed some critical issues. There is an assumption in it, however, that you're using PowerShell 6, which will break some functionality if you have a lower version installed. 

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