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Banner image for Reset Your Sitecore Accounts After a Configurable Amount of Time Has Passed article

A common question raised in the community is, “How do I unlock a Sitecore account due to bad password attempts?”. The fix is easy enough with a simple SQL command, but why not use a task that will do this for you? Let's go over the direct fix using SQL and an automated way as well.

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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 Who's Watching Your Mediaindexing Folder Size? No One, That's Who. article

Out of all the Sitecore projects we've rolled out, I've never had an issue around hard drive space. Our latest client launched their MVP phase a couple months ago, and to my surprise I got a drive space alert in Azure Managed Cloud. After a few checks it turns out the mediaIndexing folder is the offending party, and at 150gb+, that's a big offense!

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Banner image for Using the Sitecore Publish Viewer Module to Monitor New Content Managers article

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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Banner image for Who Did What? Auditing the Actions of Sitecore Authors Is Easy with These Simple Tools. article

Do you need to find out what just happened with some Sitecore items? Authenticated Users such as Authors have their activities logged, so what you want is an easy way to get to this information. There's a couple of tools that are easy to use so let's have a look at them.

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