Housekeeping Your Sitecore Docker Images
Introduction From time to time, updates are released for the Sitecore XM Cloud base images due to new and/or updated features. When you start your local cont...
Introduction From time to time, updates are released for the Sitecore XM Cloud base images due to new and/or updated features. When you start your local cont...
Round 3 - CVE-2021-45105 In my [previous posts](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-45046/) and [previous posts](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-44228/) I've...
Update Because of CVE-2021-45105 and the release of log2j 2.17.0 this post and the script have been updated to log2j 2.17.0. Round 2 - Mitigating CVE-2021-...
UPDATE Please also read [my next blogpost](/sitecore-solr-fix-log4j-cve-2021-45046/) on how to upgrade log4j in your local Solr instances for Sitecore. Pleas...

D:\git\alex\sitecore-102\compose\ltsc2019\xp0\compose-init.ps1 : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'AllowPrerelease'. At line:1 char:1 +...

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 Azure Redis...

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Last Friday I installed Webforms For Marketers 8.0 in my Sitecore 8 instance where I’m working on a client’s Sitecore platform. After installation I added the...

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