Blog João Neto

Quickstart: Installing New Relic on an ASP.NET web app hosted on Microsoft Azure

You just went live with your e-commerce solution hosted in the cloud and started getting some traffic. As times passes, the number of people shopping online on your website increases exponentially. You start noticing some server downtime and visitors are starting to get frustrated with your services. How would you

Sitecore

Setup Application Insights on an IaaS/on-prem Sitecore installation

Application Insights allows you to monitor your website performance and log messages. You can use it with many web platforms including Sitecore. When you install Sitecore using the Azure installation package, Application Insights is automatically setup by the installation scripts. This is not the case when you install Sitecore on

Sitecore

Custom Solr index conflict between IncludeTemplates and ExcludeTemplates nodes

If you have a configuration file to define a custom Solr index that meets the following: inherits the node documentOptions from the default defaultSolrIndexConfiguration.defines an AddIncludedTemplate node.This configuration is not allowed. Here is an example: <configuration> <sitecore> <contentSearch> <indexConfigurations> <

Sitecore Upgrade

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Final Part: Post-upgrade maintenance, NVelocity migration, testing strategies, and content merge

This is the final part of a devlog I started last year. Now that the upgrade I was working on went live, I can finally wrap this series with the following topics: Understanding general post-upgrade maintenanceLearning how to migrate NVelocity templates to Scriban templatesUnderstanding some post-upgrade testing strategiesLearning some approaches

Sitecore Upgrade

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part IV: Upgrade SXA, third-party modules, and more issues

This is the fourth part of a devlog I started some time ago. Today, I am covering the installation and configuration of Sitecore XP 10.1.0, upgrading SXA, third-party modules and more issues. Disclaimer: This series of blog posts do not release you from reading the Upgrade Guide. There

NuGet packages

Save time updating Sitecore Nuget Packages

This is a spin-off of a devlog I started some time ago. Today, I am sharing a simple Powershell script to help you with the "Update Sitecore NuGet Packages" task. If you have been following me along with this series, you’ve noticed that one of the tasks is updating

Fitbit

Getting started with Fitbit development - Part II: Creating a Clock Face, Fitbit OS Simulator, running the app on an actual device

In this second part, we are going to create a clock face in Fitbit. Then we are going to run it on the Fitbit OS Simulator and finish running it on an actual device through the feature called Developer Bridge. Clock faces are the easiest thing you can build on

Sitecore Upgrade

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part III: Stop content tests, update XM and xDB databases, clean up content databases

This is the third part of a devlog I started weeks ago. Today, I am covering the upgrade of the Sitecore databases, what went wrong and how we fixed that. Disclaimer: This series of blog posts do not release you from reading the Upgrade Guide. There is quite a lot

Sitecore Upgrade

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part II: RTFM, getting started, NuGet packages, breaking changes, deprecation

This is the second part of a devlog I started a week ago. Today, I am covering more documentation and highlighting some things that might interest you. Next, I get started with the upgrade and share some issues I encountered. To give a bit more context, I am upgrading a

Hacks

7zip hacks for Sitecore developers

In this post, I share how you can use 7-Zip command-line tool to automate some tasks when dealing with .zip files. Additionally, I share two simple commands that can help you to remove some undesirable folders from a zipped website and remove specific languages from a Sitecore package. 7-Zip7-Zip is

Sitecore Upgrade

A Sitecore Upgrade Devlog - Part I: Initial Assessment, Estimates, Risk Assessment and Planning

This series of devlogs is intended to help beginners with the Sitecore upgrade work. You’ll follow along with my thought processes and what you need to start an upgrade. If you did upgrades in the past, you will find most of the content here is dreadfully boring. However, you

Fitbit

Getting started with Fitbit development - Part I: Sign Up, Fitbit Studio, CLI, Visual Studio Code, and Hello World

This is a first of a series of blog posts where I share how you can get started with developing a Fitbit application. If you are into sports, have a Fitbit watch and want to build something cool on it, then stick with me on this amazing hello world app.

Solr

Stop hand editing the managed schema on Solr and use the Schema API

Sitecore 9.x offers the option to populate the managed schema file in Solr at the click of a button. Sometimes, you might need to edit the managed schema file to add a new custom field. This is especially true in multi-language sites. Solr offers an option to add new

Hacks

Auto reload Sitecore logs with Baretail

If you like to use Baretail as a log viewer, but hates having to open a new file whenever Sitecore rolls out a new log file, then stick with me in this blog post. What is Baretail?Baretail is a free real-time log file monitoring tool. It has some nice

Sitecore

Yet another post about resetting the Admin password

In the WDP packages you download from dev.sitecore.net/Downloads.aspx, you can find sample scripts for creating users for each database. You also find, a sample script for configuring the admin password. The script is named SetSitecoreAdminPassword.sql and it is located in the file Sitecore 10.1.

Sitecore

Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 5: Thread Pool Size Monitor, Rebus, Assembly Resolver, MVC Area Registration and XML Configuration Load

Continuing with my series of blogs describing what each line in the Sitecore logs mean, today I want to talk about Thread Pool Size Monitor, Rebus, Assembly Resolver, MVC Area Registration and XML Configuration Load. In this post, we are still examining the log file. In future posts, we will

Sitecore

Refactoring to Sitecore Helix

In the past months, I started refactoring a legacy Sitecore solution to be Helix compliance. I admit it wasn’t easy and I had lots of issues along the way, but here’s some lessons I learned. I believe they can help you out when you go through the same

Hacks

For developers: Helpful PowerShell scripts

Here I want to share some Powershell scripts that I use constantly and has proven to be useful (for me) specially if you have more than one instance of Sitecore in your machine. Clean Sitecore logs from your machinePush-Location "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" Get-ChildItem .\ -Include logs -Recurse | foreach ($_) { Remove-Item $_.fullname -Include

Sitecore

Understanding Sitecore logs – Part 4: Heartbeat, Dump Configuration Files and Performance Counters

Continuing with my series of blogs describing what each line in the Sitecore logs mean, today I want to talk about Heartbeat, Dump Configuration Files and Performance Counters. In this post, we are still examining the log file. In future posts, we will explore Client, Crawling, Eds, Exm, Fxm, Search,

Sitecore

EXM and encryption keys

If you had the chance to work with Sitecore Email Experience Manager (aka EXM), you probably had to configured the connection string keys EXM.CryptographicKey and EXM.AuthenticationKey. But do you know how important are they? EXM.CryptographicKey and EXM.AuthenticationKey are used to encrypt and decrypt the query string

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Sitecore

Publishrecovery and mediaindexing folders are automatically created in the C:\App_Data folder

We have noticed a publishrecovery and mediaindexing folder created in the C:\App_Data\ folder. Despite deleting this folder, it was being recreated every once in a while. We raised a ticket with the Sitecore Support team and the rensponse we got was: This behavior is not expected and the

Hacks

For developers: moving your Sitecore 9.x installation to another folder

Sometimes, you might decide to tidy the Sitecore installation folders or you realized that you dislike the name the installation folder received. Here’s some steps on how to move or rename your Sitecore installation folders ##Sitecore X0/XP/XM and IdentityServer Open Internet Information Services (Run > inetmgr) and

Sitecore

When multi-page forms submission are accounted as abandoned

There is a specific implementation of the multi-page forms I saw around where the form is not submitted. Instead, it simply displays a “Thank you” message – without a redirect submit action. To illustrate what I am saying, here is an example: Notice that the “send message” button has the Navigation

Sitecore

List operation root item wasn't found

While preparing a new environment, we started having the following error in the logs: ERROR [ListManager]: List operation root item wasn't found It turns out one of our colleagues while following my blog post XConnect IndexWorker error “Tokens are incompatible, they have different set of shards.” accidentally removed the folder

Sitecore

EXM error: the ID “mainform” is already used by another control

After uploading a HTML email document, you might experience a message saying “The selected page could not be displayed“. Here is a possible cause. For some HTML templates, where a preview image should be displayed, the message following message was shown instead. By looking into the Sitecore logs, we have