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For all you, developers, techies, web analysts, designers, quality engineers and project managers in the internet industry. The following page is a real must read! As you can see on this picture, the marketing organizations are on loose ground. It’s time to help them, but before we can do that, we probably need to dive [...]

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The easiest way to rebuild the indexes of your DMS database is done in the following way: SQL Script SET NOCOUNT ON GO –Set the fillfactor DECLARE @FillFactor TINYINT SELECT @FillFactor=80 DECLARE @StartTime DATETIME SELECT @StartTime=GETDATE() if object_id('tempdb..#TablesToRebuildIndex') is not null begin drop table #TablesToRebuildIndex end DECLARE @NumTables VARCHAR(20) SELECT s.[Name] AS SchemaName, t.[name] AS [...]

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Inside Sitecore we work with Scrum. This simply means that we have the business prioritize business cases and technical teams try to implement them as good as possible. Over the years we’ve learned a lot about application development and one of those things was that we’ve to prioritize technical tasks in a similar fashion as [...]

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In the operations around Sitecore.net we often get contacted by someone who has a problem with a link. Recent example of that is when we started to enable the CSRF-extensions for Sitecore 6.6(Update-3). All kinds of redirect problems were caught, but how to figure out to which exact mailing they are related? Don’t worry, that’s [...]

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As you could have been reading in my previous post, Sitecore’s major product Sitecore .NET Web Content Management System is affected by the ASP.NET Vulnerability 2416728. Today, Microsoft has released an update to all the Windows Update Services(WSUS and WU). You can find all the details in Scott Guthrie’s post. What could potentially happen to [...]

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Sitecore’s major product Sitecore ASP.NET Web CMS is affected by the ASP.NET Vulnerability 2416728. Scott Guthrie describes all the nifty details about this threat in this post. Our Support-team has been working intensively with our Product team to get a well tested solution out. It’s available now.  For more information, please review this article on [...]

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Sitecore is moving a lot these days and releasing almost on a monthly base new and cool functionalities. Not everybody has the ability to work with Sitecore on a daily base an keep up with this new exciting functionality. So time for me to step in and guide you back to the highway by creating [...]

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A very common question I receive is that people don’t know anymore where to setup Insert Options. Especially with the new possibilities of the Sitecore 6.1 content management system. Here’s my view on this: Individual item Rarely, you want to setup Insert Options on individual items. Something when you have a specific folder or section in [...]

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An annoying issue which came across twice this week: Sitecore was throwing “Specified cast is not valid”-Exceptions: And seriously, if there’s one thing I hate about .NET in general, it are exceptions. 95% of the time they are non self explaining and sometimes even nonsense. This exception would normally take me 20 minutes to solve at least. [...]

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To all of you Sitecore Developers, Architects and Webmasters out there. I just want to point you on our latest update: CMS 6.1.0 Update rev. 090722 , also known as 6.1.0 Update-1 ) and OMS 1.0.0 (full version number: Sitecore Online Marketing Suite 1.0.0 rev. 090722). Although it isn’t a recommended release at the moment, [...]

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