Koen HeyeFixing Sitecore databases running in Docker - Windows 11
It has been a while - over a year - since I ran my Sitecore docker projects locally. I was working on other projects for which we don't have a local docker development environment (yet?). In the mean…
ConfigurationErrorsException XConnectIndexer
During our process to configure SQL Always Encrypted for a client, one of the last steps to do is to rebuild the xdb indexes. This means that the configuration of the IndexWorker in xc-search needs to…
PowerShell Extensions - get a setting
I needed to get a Sitecore setting in my PowerShell script and couldn't find any other online documentation. So hopefully this helps someone. And it is easy to achieve:
Running a container to check its fysical files - solr-init example
I just wanted to write this information down since it helped me understand better what happens when you make changes to a Dockerfile. A Dockerfile is a text document that contains all the commands a…
Sitecore 10.1 and Docker: custom solr indexes
Before 10.1 Adding Solr cores in Docker for version 10.0.1 was done by modifying the DockerFile for the solr image, copying your managed schema to it and pass in the core names that you want to have…
Sitecore Docker - increase SOLR JVM
By default the solr containers that get started will be assigned 512MB of memory . For the project we are migrating we have several custom indexes and we could use some more memory when all those need…
Sitecore 10.1 upgrading code - check your config for Dataprovider changes
Sitecore 10.1 uses a new Dataprovider and instead of fetching all default Sitecore items from the database, Protobuf is used to get those items from a data file - fast. Check out this blog post from…
From Droplist to Droplink
During some maintenance on older projects, I came across the usage of the Sitecore field Droplist. This immediately triggered my spidey sense! Droplists can be used in a project but they have a major…
Sitecore - What is CaaS
Last month, during the Sitecore Symposium, a new development in the product line of Sitecore was announced: Sitecore CaaS. In this blog post I delve a little bit in what CaaS is. And what options will…
Sitecore 10 Docker: install packages in CM environment
While testing functionality in my Sitecore Docker XP1 environment locally, I wanted to install a package to get some Sitecore items and files in my environment. In this case, it was for some custom…