Or don't. But you should. During a new rollout of Sitecore 10.3 I found thousands of warnings in my logs which should be ignored as they are at the wrong level, and I can show you how to keep a clean log against them as well.

Part of my Sitecore upgrade projects this year is to copy data from the old instance to the new ones. One of those tasks will be to copy Users, and of course, their passwords. You've probably seen Sitecore's ASPX file which allows you to transfer User passwords between Sitecore instances. This is needed since Users that are exported/imported will have their passwords scrambled or set to “b”. The tool only allows for one User to be selected at a time, but this small tweak let's you choose a limitless number of Users at a time. 

A common question raised in the community is, “How do I unlock a Sitecore account due to bad password attempts?”. The fix is easy enough with a simple SQL command, but why not use a task that will do this for you? Let's go over the direct fix using SQL and an automated way as well.

Classic Application Insights is set to retire February 29th, 2024 and Administrators are encouraged to migrate to workspace-based Application Insights as soon as possible. But what does this mean for Sitecore Managed Cloud environments?

Out of all the Sitecore projects we've rolled out, I've never had an issue around hard drive space. Our latest client launched their MVP phase a couple months ago, and to my surprise I got a drive space alert in Azure Managed Cloud. After a few checks it turns out the mediaIndexing folder is the offending party, and at 150gb+, that's a big offense!

With any project there comes a time when we grant access to the client's authors. I guess that's the whole point of a CMS, right? But during this transition period I always keep an eye on the Content Management instance's performance to ensure everything is running as it should be, and excessive publishing is a common issue we have to address.

Do you need to find out what just happened with some Sitecore items? Authenticated Users such as Authors have their activities logged, so what you want is an easy way to get to this information. There's a couple of tools that are easy to use so let's have a look at them.