#Sitecore Headless Setup Configuration Steps

At this point in the setup process there is a handful of manual steps to be taken. (With some further investigation these -could be- should be accomplished via some wiring up in the dotnet template creation process, but that is another article.) Docker Related Updates The first update that needs to be performed is ensuring …

Guide to #Sitecore Headless Setup

Before we can start to explore the different aspects to Sitecore Headless Services, we need to get ourselves an environment. Because this is Sitecore we are dealing with the number of steps maybe a little higher than when working with other CMS, but this is part of the fact with Sitecore's hybrid approach to headless …

Adding Secure Bindings to IIS

Back in 2018, I wrote an article that showed a PowerShell script that leveraged the Sitecore Fundamentals module to create and add self-signed certificates to an IIS web application. This solution was functional but was limited in that the IIS Web Application had to be the name of the URL to have a SSL certificate …

A little script to help manage #Docker Images

Simple things are hard to remember sometimes, and the best way to ensure I can find the notes is formally write it up and publish it. For this quick reminder is a simple PowerShell script to push multiple docker images I have locally built to my Azure Container Registry (ACR) for sharing with my teammates …

dotnet CLI Templates for #Sitecore and docker

As I have been diving into leveraging docker for my Sitecore development, I have been seeking how to reduce the amount of work my team members must take to they themselves getting up and running. (One of the main ideas is the simplification of standing up an environment.) In my experimenting and learning, I found …

Controlling Docker

Outside of the ease of standardizing my development teams environments through the usage of containers running on Docker, I'm excited about the possibilities around providing easy access to demo sites for my sales team members as well. Anyone reading with a technical background, may think that this a bit crazy of an idea, but by …

Creating Helix Solutions

At Sitecore Symposium 2019, Helix 2.0 was announced and released. The Helix documentation provides best practice recommendations when developing for Sitecore. Helix 2.0 provides clarification as well as enhanced examples to help provide developer guidance to Sitecore. To learn more about the principles of Helix see the official documentation at [helix.sitecore.net]. When applying the Helix …

Sitecore 9.3 Uninstall Script

With Sitecore 9.2, developers where once again re-warded with a GUI interface to installation called the Sitecore Install Assistant or SIA. With the arrival of 9.3, the SIA has gotten some nice upgrades, such as Solr install and SXA installation. (Now if they could bake Habitat Home in, it would be the perfect demo setup …

Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Solr Setup

Installing Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) is fairly simple. You first install the package for Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE). Then the SXA package...then your done right?...well if you do not follow the installation guide closely, you'll end up like me after every install with broken features as you never installed and configured the required Solr index …

Sitecore Intall Errors with SQL Command Not Found

When of my favorite things is to kick-off a Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) script see things flash on the screen, leave to refresh my coffee and return to a little red message, instead of the pleasant blue all pass message....erghhh... With each iteration of SIF, the error messaging has gotten better. But once in awhile …