Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

To increase the performance of the Website, or the current cache size are not enough for load then we need to follow the cache tunning procedure. A Sitecore cache consumes memory based on the amount of data stored in the cache. Cache size defines the maximum application memory the cache can consume. The following instructions apply to all Sitecore caches. The very first steps are to ensure that we have set the initial cache values before tunning. Use the following table as a starting point for database and HTML output cache values. Set initial cache values before performing cache tuning procedures. Before configuring the initial values, go to the cache admin page using sitecore/admin/cache.aspx page you can verify that the values are the same or different. In this blog, I will describe How to add set initial cache values using patch files. How to patch: Add the below patch file to your project. The below patch file has a patch for Prefetc...

This blog post is related to the upgrade approach of the Sitecore Database. There are plenty of documents available on Sitecore and other blog posts and articles about How to upgrade the Sitecore database, but this is different. I have an application in Sitecore 8.2 XP and it needs to be migrated to Sitecore 10.2 XM, please focus on instance XM instead of XP. Sitecore 8.2 XP instance launchpad as below:  Sitecore 10.2 XM instance launchpad as below: I have upgraded the Database using the SQL scripts provided by Sitecore here and now my Sitecore 10.2 XM instance launchpad is as below: Note: I have not published code yet on the Sitecore 10.2 XM instance, I have attached only the upgraded Database. So there are no config and other changes. I have also run the Sitecore UpdateApp Tool , after upgrading the database. Solution: To get rid of the Marketing Applications buttons on the Sitecore Launchpad, we can switch to the...

After upgradation the Sitecore project from version 8.2 to 10.2, I deployed the application on the Azure PASS environment. Everything was working perfectly fine and when I browsed the Unicorn.aspx page to sync the Sitecore items. It was asking me for the login. After clicking on the Sign in to Sitecore as an administrator and I entered the credential and it redirected me to the unicorn.aspx page with the same message. Solution: After some research, I have found that Sitecore 9.1 has introduced Sitecore Identity. Sitecore Identity (SI) is a mechanism to log in to Sitecore. It was introduced in Sitecore 9.1. It builds on the Federated Authentication functionality introduced in Sitecore 9.0 and the Sitecore Identity server, which is based on IdentityServer4. It provides a separate identity provider and allows you to set up SSO (Single Sign-On) across Sitecore services and applications. Then I explored the configs under the unicorn folder in my proj...

When you will install the Sitecore 10.2 XM, you might get a console error in Experience Analytics JS in the Sitecore XM launchpad vanilla environment. It sounds weird that in Sitecore XM experience analytics play any role. As per the Sitecore documents Experience Analytics features are incompatible with Experience Manager if it has been installed using XM packages.  Sitecore XP feature compatibility in XM Scaled packages So I came with a few doubts and questions: If there is no role for Experience Analytics then what is the use of ExperienceAnalytics.js? If we do not have any uses of Experience Analytics in Sitecore XM then can we remove this JS and solve the console error issue? Then I raised a support ticket to Sitecore, to get the answer. Sitecore Response: Thank you for contacting Sitecore Support. I was able to reproduce the issue locally. So this behavior was registered as a bug in our bug tracking system. Thank you ...

After a successful deployment of the application on an MCS environment. I started facing an issue on CMS regarding the client IP address '20.205.248.223' is not allowed to access the server. I have uploaded the upgraded Sitecore Master, Core, and Web database and changed it into the connection string. I was not using the default Sitecore 10.2 MCS database. Solution: The issue looks related to configuration of your Azure SQL Server "mc-********-***-****-****-****-sql". If you navigate: mc-********-***-****-****-****-sql -> "Security" section -> "Networking" tab we can see that the "Allow Azure services and resources to access this server" checkbox is unchecked. Thus, web apps cannot connect to databases without explicitly allowing their IP (which may change). For resolving the issue, please consider checking/enabling the mentioned checkbox. Happy Sitecoreing  😊

While upgradation to Sitecore 10.2, I was to restore the database on the Managed Cloud Service Azure SQL Server. I have connected the Azure SQL server on my local SSMS and started to import the Database using the option Import Data-tier Application. While importing the database using the above option you need a BACPAC file instead of a .bak file. So I was to create a BACPAC file of the database from my local. Go to the database, right-click and select the Export Data-tier Application option under the Task menu. After clicking on the next, while creating the BACPAC file you may get the below error: Solution: Go to the Users in that Database. Your Database => Security => Users Find the user, right click and delete it. If you are unable to delete the user and encountered a new error as below: It means the user you are going to delete owns a schema in the database and owners. First, you need to search which schemas own...

If you want to install Horizon and facing some pre-post installation issues and looking for fixes, then my previous blogs can help you. Install Horizon 10.2 with Sitecore XM Sitecore Horizon Issue Pre and Post installation Error: Go to the log file path of Horizon C:\inetpub\wwwroot\horizon.sc102.local\logs , and open the log file. Detailed Error: Solution: From the detailed error log, the issue is more related to OpenIdConnect and Authoring . I have checked the OpenIdConnect.xml file from the path in the horizon directory i.e. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\horizon.sc102.local\Config and opened the file. In this file, you can find that configuration is related to the Identity Server URL, which means the Sitecore Identity Server is not working. As the Sitecore Horizon interface is login worked automatically by Sitecore SSO with Identity Server. In my case, my Sitecore Licence expired and I have updated it to all instances except Identity Serv...

Today when I started with the Horizon and click on the Horizon icon, it’s come with a different error. If you want to install Horizon and facing some pre-post installation issues and looking for fixes, then my previous blogs can help you. Install Horizon 10.2 with Sitecore XM Sitecore Horizon Issue Pre and Post installation Error: To investigate more about the same, I investigated the log folder of the Horizon directory, but I have not found anything in the log file. I restarted the IIS and checked the page again but with no success. Again, I checked the log file and found that there was no new log created, so it is something related to the IIS. Hence, I moved to the event viewer and tried to investigate the issue there and finally found the error log which says: and the detailed error in the General tab: Solution: From the first line of the error log, you can easily find that it's related to the Sitecore Invalid Licence or expired...