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João Neto

João Neto is a former Sitecore MVP, 2x Sitecore Hackathon champion, and a Certified Sitecore Developer. The views he expresses are his own.

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

Aug 7, 2020 8 min read

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 examin...

Refactoring to Sitecore Helix

Aug 3, 2020 10 min read

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 sam...

For developers: Powershell scripts that might be helpful

Jul 24, 2020 2 min read

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 machine Push-Location "C:\inetpub\wwwroot"...

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

Jul 23, 2020 5 min read

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 wi...

EXM and encryption keys

Jul 22, 2020 4 min read

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...

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

Jul 21, 2020 2 min read

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:...