Monday, September 26, 2022

We've recently been working on a migration project, moving, and rebuilding a series of sites to run against Sitecore XM Cloud. One of the key requirements was to ensure that all the sites could be edited in both Sitecore Experience Editor, and the next-generation editing interface included with XM Cloud - Sitecore Pages. This blog post will cover the steps we took to get this working.......

Monday, March 11, 2019

So this is the fourth and final part in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first three parts we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, we installed Java and Solr then finally we secured the solr instance using a certificate from the awesome LetsEncrypt service. In this series we're going to finish setting this service up by creating the cores that we need to run Sitecore......

Monday, March 4, 2019

So this is part 3 in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first two parts we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, we installed Java and Solr then finally opened port 8983 so we could access the Solr dashboard remotely. In this post we're going use LetsEncrypt to generate a certficate to allow us to secure our communication with Solr over HTTPS......

Sunday, March 3, 2019

So this is part 2 in my series walking you through how to setup an Ubuntu VM in Azure running Solr secured using LetsEncrypt. In the first part we used the Azure CLI to create the VM, then opened an SSH connection to server to test it had completed successfully......

Friday, March 1, 2019

So this week I've been building a Sitecore Experience Commerce deployment in Azure. This is using mostly PaaS based resources, so WebApps, Azure SQL and all that jazz. However I wanted to try to keep the spend down a bit and the easiest way to achieve that is to switch out Azure Search for Solr......

Monday, April 17, 2017

Hopefully this series has helped to demystify Azure ARM Templates and how the different elements interact with each other during the deployment process. The complete ARM templates are all available as......

Sunday, April 16, 2017

This is the third post in my series on Editing Sitecore Azure ARM Templates, if you haven't read the others you might want to head back to the beginning and start from there, you can find it at......

Saturday, April 15, 2017

This is the second post in my series on Editing Sitecore Azure ARM Templates, if you haven't read the first one you might want to head back and read that one first, you can find at Editing Sitecore......

Friday, April 14, 2017

With the release of Sitecore 8.2 Update-1 support for Azure WebApps was introduced. The recommended deployment strategy was to make use of Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates and Sitecore......