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August 11, 2015

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Fixing "Our Services aren't available right now" error on Azure Front Door

Fixing "Our Services aren't available right now" error on Azure Front Door Our Services aren't available right now - Azure Front door Problem: In one of the projects I am currently working on, we have deployed Sitecore on Azure PaaS infrastructure. In the past projects, I have used Azure Traffic Manager to route the traffic to the nearest geographical location and also able to control the traffic to specific web apps which in turn helped us deliver the promise of Blue/Green deployment. With Traffic Manager, we have faced a challenge that haunted us for many months. It is the famous 503 Service Unavailable error. According to Microsoft, it can be caused due to any of the following reasons Requests taking a long time Application using high memory/CPU Application crashing due to an exception. We have spent hours trying to solve the problem tackling it from all the above-mentioned possibilities. In the end, we were not satisfied with what the Tr...

6 innate characteristics of Sitecore Install Framework

Sitecore Installation Framework in short SIF is a tool Sitecore released with its latest and greatest version 9.0. In my opinion it is a DevOps tool that can be used by development and operations teams to install and configure Sitecore 9 in various environments either from scratch or to repair. Although there is a good learning curve when using Sitecore Install Framework for first time, once we become familiar with how it works we can easily build on the core concepts. It's worth mentioning that my prior experience using Azure ARM templates made it much easier to understand SIF SIF characteristics mindmap Below are 6 inherent distinctive characteristics that attracted me most Installation Up until Sitecore 8.2 all Sitecore developers and operations team used to follow either exe file or zip file for installations. Developers also used to depend on Sitecore Instance Module (SIM) windows application for installations. This tool used to automat...

Iso, Utc Datetime in Sitecore Powershell

Recently, I started exploring Sitecore Powershell Extensions (SPE) . It's a masterpiece :). I have a task of content loading from XML files. I was able to complete the whole logic and loading in less than 4 hours with additional couple of hours for learning SPE . I struggled a bit while updating the DateTime fields and this post is to share what I have learned. I was initially parsing some 'yyyyMMddHHmmss' format string to datetime in SPE and assigned to a DateField of a news item. Item is updated successfully. But when I see the item in content tree it displays as below. After some bing search, tried using raw views as the edit was successful. I remembered Sitecore stores the time in Utc Iso format from Sitecore 8. So, started using Sitecore.DateUtil static class. This is what I have done Converted server time to Iso time Converted Iso time to Utc Iso time Updated date field with Utc Iso time And this resolved the issue. Though Sitecore saves ...

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