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Sitecore Cumulative Hotfixes Installation on OnPrem and PaaS

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In this blog post, I will discuss how to install the cumulative hotfix on Sitecore OnPrem and PaaS instances. For example, Sitecore provided the Cumulative hotfix for Sitecore XP 10.2  and it's available for both XM and XP 10.2 instances. Usually, to install the hotfix we use the Sitecore installation wizard, but such cumulative hotfixes are not intended to be installed using the Installation wizard. Instead, we need to refer to the following articles describing how to install the hotfixes for OnPrem and PaaS instances: Install a Sitecore XP pre-release using SIF Deploy a Sitecore XP pre-release to a PaaS solution My application has been deployed with Sitecore Managed Cloud Service (Azure PaaS) . I have found that there is less instruction about how to install the cumulative hotfix, so I decided to install it via project solution. Solution: Create one separate project in your solution named SitecoreHotfix

Log Search Alert Rule Appeared in Azure Portal

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Over the weekend suddenly Log Search Alert Rule appeared on our UAT and PROD MCS Azure account dashboard and it’s not easy to find the actual app services. It has never existed before on Portal. These resources always existed but were hidden on the portal, to see it in the portal we had to check the "show hidden types" checkbox. But now these resources are visible by default, it looks like a recent change on the portal. Azure support has confirmed that this is the recent change on the portal. The Azure team has made rules and action groups a first-class asset, official documentation will follow. We are still in contact with them on the matter of question if it's still possible to hide them as before. The solution is adding specific tags to resources and then filtering by the tags in the Azure portal, below are the steps describing how to do it: Assign Tags for the resource (Alert rules/Action Group), filter the Type with a t