Recently, We upgraded our Sitecore Managed Cloud environments to AKS 1.31 and right after that, our application deployment pipeline started failing. Everything had been working perfectly before the upgrade, and the exact same pipeline was still passing on environments that hadn’t been upgraded yet. One of the custom role jobs started failing Custom Job That … Continue reading Ansible playbook failed retrying wait After AKS 1.31 Upgrade
Author: Zaheer Tariq
Your Sitecore Next.js Source Code May Be Exposed
Since Next.js is becoming the most popular choice with Sitecore projects which is a great and very powerful combination, I want to share an important security point that you maybe missing or have not noticed yet. When working with Next.js in Sitecore XM Cloud or Sitecore Headless JSS projects, one common issue is that the … Continue reading Your Sitecore Next.js Source Code May Be Exposed
Troubleshooting “Unknown or Incomplete Layout Service Configuration” in Sitecore JSS
Recently, I had to switch my Next.js application from GraphQL to REST. Sitecore have a simple and straight forward article to do just that and apparently it is simply changing one environment variable but it turned out to be a nightmare to get it to work. I wanted to document my experience so it can … Continue reading Troubleshooting “Unknown or Incomplete Layout Service Configuration” in Sitecore JSS
Sitecore Headless write and test GraphQL queries
If you’re starting with a Sitecore headless project, the first thing you’ll want to do is figure out how to get data out of Sitecore. You can use GraphQL queries to get data from Sitecore. Sitecore provides a GraphQL Playground UI also called GraphQL IDEA that helps you do exactly that without having to guess. … Continue reading Sitecore Headless write and test GraphQL queries
Fixing the Sticky Tooltip AutoComplete Issue in Sitecore’s GraphQL Playground UI
The Sitecore GraphQL Playground UI also called GraphQL IDE is a handy tool for developers working with Sitecore’s GraphQL APIs. It provides a clean, interactive interface for testing your GraphQL queries. If you’ve ever used Sitecore’s GraphQL Playground UI, you might have run into an annoying problem: the tooltip/autocomplete gets stuck on the screen and … Continue reading Fixing the Sticky Tooltip AutoComplete Issue in Sitecore’s GraphQL Playground UI
Disable/Hide Username Password from Sitecore Login Screen (Using Okta Integration)
In a Sitecore project, we had already enabled Okta federated authentication following the excellent guide from XCentium Sitecore IdentityServer + Okta – Federated Authentication. Okta was working fine, but we noticed that on the Sitecore login screen both options were still visible Traditional username/password login Okta single sign-on From a security perspective, we didn’t want … Continue reading Disable/Hide Username Password from Sitecore Login Screen (Using Okta Integration)
Export Sitecore Media Library Items to Disk
In the previous blog post, I explained how to calculate the size of media library and sub-items. Once you know the size you can plan to export Sitecore Media Library items to disk in one go or folder by folder depending on the Size. In this blog post we will continue our discussion and I … Continue reading Export Sitecore Media Library Items to Disk
Download folder from Sitecore without Server Access
If you do not have access to Sitecore Server and want to download some files or a full folder from Sitecore instance, you can use Sitecore Package designer to download them. You will need to have Sitecore Admin access to do it. Please find below steps to do it From the Sitecore Launch Pad Click … Continue reading Download folder from Sitecore without Server Access
Sitecore upload and test ASPX page with custom logic
Using embedded code ASPX pages is a great way to run your custom code in a Sitecore instance without needing to do a full deployment. This also gives you the flexibility if you need to do something in Production and cannot deploy and do rapid build upload and test. You can use Visual Studio to … Continue reading Sitecore upload and test ASPX page with custom logic
Measuring Sitecore Media Library Size for a Smooth Migration
A while back, I worked on a large-scale Sitecore to another CMS migration project which came with lots of constraints and challenges. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the system, I wasn’t given direct access to the server or filesystem. I was only given Sitecore admin access that too after lots of convincing and … Continue reading Measuring Sitecore Media Library Size for a Smooth Migration