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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 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 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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