Five Certificate Headaches in a Month
Five certificate problems across five services in one month — and the Certz commands I reached for instead of the usual OpenSSL contortions.
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Identity Server ECDSA Certificate Pitfall
Sitecore Identity Server crashes with a NullReferenceException when configured with an ECDSA certificate — the fix is generating RSA keys instead.
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Certz 0.4: A Certificate Management Utility
Certz is a cross-platform CLI for creating, inspecting, linting, and monitoring X.509 certificates — here's what shipped in 0.4.
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PrecisionScheduler v1.1.0: Fixing the Bugs That Hurt in Production
Real-world use surfaced six issues in PrecisionScheduler — some cosmetic, some quietly catastrophic — here's what changed in v1.1.0 and why.
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Clean Orphaned Blob Records
Over 60% of a Sitecore database consumed by orphaned blob records — here's what we found and how we fixed it.
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SXA Search Endpoint Validation
Invalid query strings hitting SXA search endpoints generate thousands of log exceptions. Here's how to stop the noise.
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Troubleshoot Certificate Revocation Lookups
Intermittent SSL errors on outbound service calls traced back to blocked LetsEncrypt revocation check domains.
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Working with Unicorn and Sitecore CLI
Running Unicorn and Sitecore CLI side-by-side during a staged migration surfaces some subtle compatibility problems worth knowing about.
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Hotfix Wiped Out My Roles
A Sitecore 10.2.1 cumulative hotfix changed how federated authentication handles roles at sign-in — and took our users' permissions with it.
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Replacement Task Scheduler for Sitecore
Sitecore's built-in task scheduler has some well-known limitations. Here's how we replaced it with Hangfire for more reliable background job scheduling.