In this episode, we will be using Azure PowerShell, Chocolatey, the Sitecore Installation Framework to set up a virtual machine. This post is not an end-to-end tutorial but points out some of the main concepts needed to get there. A full implementation can be found in my Azure Virtual Machine for Sitecore Development repository on […]
Ever spun up an Azure virtual machine just to realize it doesn’t have the right ports open? Then, after 30 minutes of rolling your face on the keyboard, updating, restarting, and punching your monitor, it still doesn’t work? Just do it with Azure PowerShell.
You are probably here because you have painstakingly clicked on every single Azure resource in the portal to view it’s size. Using Azure PowerShell, your pain is finally over! To pull a list of all the VM’s and their respective sizes:
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A Week in Peru
Scratch one off the bucket list! I’ve always been entranced by those majestic photos of Machu Picchu, so I decided to plan a trip and take my own. Read on to learn about the adventure as well as some tips from a first-hand experience.
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Quick Self-Signed Certs Sitecore 9.x
When you download and install Sitecore XP1, you need to install all of the certificates first. If you need to do this often like I do, this can be quite tedious. Stealing some code from the Single-Developer.ps1, this simple foreach wrapper is a huge time saver.
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Querying Sitecore
Often times we run into situations where we need to pull information from Sitecore. Two of my favorite tools to do this are Sitecore Rocks and Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE). For those of you who are unfamiliar with these tools, Sitecore Rocks is a Visual Studio extension that makes developing and interacting with Sitecore easy. SPE […]
Today we are going to create a workflow that allows multiple users to approve an item. What we won’t cover in this post is how to setup security on fields and workflow commands. For that, I recommend John’s post on Security Access Rights.
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Sitecore Workflow – Suppressing Comments
When creating your own workflows, you may not always want to require your users to comment. Sitecore provides an option to Suppress Comment on the actions you create, however checking this box didn’t seem to have any effect .
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Using the LinkedIn JavaScript API
I was recently charged with a project where I needed to get user information from LinkedIn and I decided to use their JavaScript API. Unfortunately, most of their examples were not very useful for what I was trying to do. What Am I doing? The goal was to pre-fill a long registration form and then […]