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Zero to Hero - A real life RCA of exact issue in Sitecore Managed Cloud environment

Hello All, The purpose of today's post is to share a real life burning and escalated scenario which was new to me and how did I approach it and how big the escalations were and what was the outcome Sitecore's goodwill was at stack not because Sitecore is not capable of handling it but just because our environment was Sitecore Managed Cloud, and any issue that comes if its infra, back end code, front end code will be first pointed as Sitecore issue and that is where our consultancy and experience will play a role to prove that it is not Sitecore issue.  Issue we faced Out of the blue our site started giving "504 Gateway Time-out", and it was reported that almost everyone is getting this error, but when we used to browse the site, everything looked good and never 504. 504 Gateway Time-out error tells that, That the request went to Content Delivery servers of Sitecore from gateway, but gateway did not get response in time from those CDs and hence it gave time out error. ...
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Sitecore - How to show a new marketing promotional page on the same URL as existing home page

Hi Team, Today i will share one of the solution that we did for one of our customer, I am sure you will or you already might have came across such requirements and found your self in multiple option/solutions and trying to find best suited one for your customer, here is the story and solutions we thought of and finally selecting one out of it which was the best in all scenarios Also the solution was required in time sensitive deadline before their social marketing campaign begins so we had to come up with the solution and implement and go live before it. Customer Requirement They were doing a brand refresh, so whole site supposed to be revamped, With new user interface and UX, but that is a longer route, by the time we create that fully new site for them, they wanted to have a teaser home page, or a new home page to be shown just to give the visitor a feel of what is coming and they can market it using social campaigns. So their need was, Whenever users visit a website (www.blahblah.co...

Sitecore Stream - Platform DxP Evolution

Hi Team, I am absolutely Sitecore Stream enthusiast, and if you also keep following what is new in it and explore it features, This blog post is for you Since it was announced in symposium 2024 and probably the first platform DxP version package was released in FEB-2025 and we are now in Sep end and there have been significant roll outs and we are into 6th release of the platform DxP package. The purpose of this blog post is to summarize all improvements which came along with different releases for all of you and community, If you have not explored all of the packages. NOTE : Remember Stream is "AI capabilities throughout the composable stack, be it Content Hub, XMC, CDP, Personalized but this blog post is only for platform DxP package for on-prem XP/XM. If you see the image above, i have tried to show the package rollout on the timeline as an when they were released and watchout for next package rollout, For other useful features :)  Important improvements 1) Less configurations ...

Sitecore XP 10.3 - Some installation errors which i encountered for the first time

Hi Team, This one will be very quick blog post around some of the issues i encountered during Sitecore 10.3 installation, Specially around SOLR I have not got these issues in previous version and these were something new i encountered so drafting a quick post around it if it helps some of you save some time. Also surprisingly, did not get this in error in later versions too like 10.4  Below are the errors which i encountered  1) Certificate Chain Was Issued by an Authority That is Not Trusted  I never had this issue before, As generating certificate is backed in the script, but i still got this, so did little research around it and i found some Stack Exchange  discussion, but i followed the same steps and it got resolved for me too, Though they are for older versions Basically, I had to modify xconnect-xp0.json file, Search "InvokeSqlcmd" in it add "TrustServerCertificate": true to its "Params" property. You will find multiple matches for "InvokeSqlC...

Sitecore Stream - Manage brand kits and brand documents and ingest using REST API

     Hello Sitecore Enthusiastic, Today i will be sharing one of the recent rollouts from Sitecore Stream which is the developer APIs using which one can directly manage their brand kit, upload documents to it and also start ingestion process and that all using APIs. As recent as June, Sitecore announced REST APIs for Sitecore Partners  using which Sitecore partners can now use Stream REST APIs to integrate with their existing systems and support brand governance. List of APIs for Sitecore Stream https://api-docs.sitecore.com/?product=AI+capabilities 1) Brand Management API      As we know Brand kit is the major building block of how Stream gets its brand awareness from, So using this brand management API, You can create new brand kit, you can get specific brand kit or list of brand kits and also can get specific section of brand kit like brand context, tone of voice etc and also can update them. 2) Document Management API     Each brand...

Sitecore Stream - Configure AI capabilities into Sitecore XP using Stream Platform DxP package

Hi Folks, Recently, I delivered a webinar on "Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution with Sitecore Stream" and I also have a blog around the same which you can read here on  Sitecore Stream - Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution The purpose of the webinar session and above blog is to first set the tone for reader and audience to understand what Sitecore Stream is and how it operates and what values it can bring in, if possible, I will share the slides too so you can go through it. That session and the blog above were more from how Sitecore Stream is solving marketer's challenges Today, I will be showing you how you can configure the power of stream and its Brand Aware AI capabilities right into your on-prem XP, Why XP is because all other SaaS based (Cloud based) DxP products like XMC, Search, CH already has the power of Stream, So I will show you the steps of configuring Stream into on-prem XP version. Prerequisit...

Sitecore Stream - Do more in era of less with AI capabilities, Ideation to execution

Hi Folks, This blog post is around my point of view from technologist on AI capabilities and orchestration provided by Sitecore Stream, and why it is important to know what it has to offer and RoI for a business and what it has for future roadmap, Because every customer has similar problems and as a technologist you should always try to solve those business problems, and hence below statement comes to my mind  for Sitecore Stream. A true innovation should start from "Looking at the business problem and then choosing the tech to solve, and not vice versa" With Sitecore Stream  , This is exactly what Sitecore team has done, The product team and technical team worked with marketers and marketing team and with customer to understand their problems and then came up with this amazing innovation and AI capabilities throughout their composable stack. I will try to simplify things for end audience, so it is easy for them to understand What is Sitecore Stream? A new Product? Before we ...