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05May, 2020

Complete Guide to Deployment Automation of Your Scaled Sitecore Environment Using Azure Devops and Hedgehog TDS

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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29Feb, 2020

Sitecore Slow Performance on First Launch Could Be Your Performance Counters Not Having Appropriate Permission

When setting up a greenfield project I just love to see the sea of standard Sitecore home pages cascaded across my monitors as every instance in every environment comes online. I feel like Tom Hanks yelling, “Look what I have created!”, and after the first 20 times of doing so in the office I got “The talk”. But it's not unusual to see a slow start which typically boils down to a connection or permission error. This can be quickly identified and dealt with by just checking the logs, and performance counters is no stranger to this exercise.

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03Feb, 2020

Creating a Custom Report with Advanced System Reporter

You may have read my post about using the Advanced System Reporter module which is available in the Sitecore Marketplace, so if you're a fan of what it can do then you're going to eventually create your own custom reports. Well you're in the right place so let's get started!

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05Nov, 2019

The Sitecore Advanced System Reporter Module Is My Life Saver!

One of the most popular Modules for Sitecore is the Advanced System Reporter, which will provide you with a great deal of insight into the day to day operations of your site. With no need for post installation steps or other configuration changes, getting this running is fast and easy.

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