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Handling Analytics Processing Issues

Recently, authors were reporting that no more Analytics data was being displayed since a certain date. When analyzing the logfiles of the processing/reporting server, there were many of these entries: Exception: Sitecore.Xdb.Processing.Queue.ProcessingPoolException Message: Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed…

By Mark | September 24, 2019 | Infrastructure | No Comments |

Setting up and testing xConnect can be a challenge – especially in on premise setups. Are all the certificates set up? Are all databases up and connection strings correct? Initiially, tracking, processing and reporting can be somewhat of a black…

By Mark | December 30, 2018 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Watch your IDTables when upgrading

Recently after a major Sitecore upgrade, we ran into issues with items that have been synced from a DAM through a data provider. These items suddenly had different Guids than before which led to many broken links. The reason for…

By Mark | December 30, 2018 | Upgrading | No Comments |

10 issues you might run into when upgrading to Sitecore 9

In this post I’ll list 10 issues that – depending on your particular setup, you might also run into when upgrading to Sitecore 9. They are all easy to fix, so I hope this post saves you some time. 1.…

By Mark | December 3, 2018 | Upgrading | 1 Comment |

Customize Solr Managed Schema in Sitecore 9+

In Sitecore 9+ we can now populate Solr managed schema through the Sitecore control panel. It is still possible to use the legacy schema.xml files, but it is actually a lot more comfortable to be able to just deploy the…

By Mark | October 28, 2018 | ContentSearch | 1 Comment |

Santa’s little xDB Helper

Sorry for the xmas pun but hey, it’s December. Back to topic. Debugging xDB issues on a remote environment can be very difficult. Is the MongoDB connection OK? Is tracking configured correctly? Are contacts being created and identified? Is my…

By Mark | December 1, 2017 | Infrastructure, xDB | No Comments |

Allow lookup field queries to respect site root

This post shows two ways of using relative lookup field queries in a multisite environment.

By Mark | November 22, 2017 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |

Things to look out for when setting up xDB

This post highlights some potential pitfalls when setting up xDB on a Sitecore 8.x environment.

By Mark | November 21, 2017 | Infrastructure | No Comments |

Why silent saving with a processing server is a bad idea

This post highlights why silent saving, EventDisabler or using BulkUpdateContext can lead to inconsistent data on a multi-CM environment i.E. when using a processing server.

By Mark | November 20, 2017 | Coding, Infrastructure | No Comments |