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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 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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I've written in the past about Azure backups failing due to size limits being exceeded. The _backup.filter file is a straightforward thing to use, but what do you do when you can't see what the cause of your file usage? The Azure Web Aps Disk Usage tool is an easy way to find the offending directory.

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