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How to convert a Sitecore package into a WDP package?
Prerequisites
Download the AzureToolkit from Sitecore.
Powershell 4.x or newer ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion to check your current version)
Download and install MSDeploy.
SQL Server (The express version ...
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Sitecore PaaS Log files missing
Accessing Sitecore XP logs and diagnostics information on Azure Web Apps differs from the on-premise approach. This article explains how to collect basic Sitecore diagnostics information, such as logs ...
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Azure Redis Cache, is it necessary for Sitecore?
Azure Redis cache is the default session provider Sitecore 9.0 will use in Azure Paas. Out of the box, Azure Redis Cache will be configured and used by Sitecore.
Sitecore uses this session provider ...
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Accessing log files in application insights for Sitecore 9 in Azure app service
How it works
Have a look at the App_Config/Sitecore/Azure/Sitecore.Cloud.ApplicationInsights.config which gets deployed to all CM/CD/PRC/REP roles.
You will see that all the built-in log4net ...
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How to add custom language to Sitecore on Azure PaaS Web Apps?
The very unfortunate answer to this question is that you can't (at least not as of the writing of this answer).
Per this blog post, dated June 2018:
You cannot, at this moment, create a custom ...
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How to Create Web Deploy Package for Sitecore Modules
I was able to solve this.
Navigate to your Sitecore Azure Toolkit path in Powershell and run the following after unblocking all the files.
Import-Module .\tools\Sitecore.Cloud.Cmdlets.psm1
Import-...
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How to handle multiple Core Databases in a multi-datacenter setup on Azure PaaS
As you mentioned Replication is required for some Sitecore databases, but SQL Azure (PaaS) does not support SQL read-write geo-replication currently just read-only(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Azure WebApp XDB apps cannot find service 'KeyStoreProviders'
An answer has also been given through the Sitecore Community Slack channel.
Credit to sumithpd (Sr. Product Manager - Experience Platform at Sitecore)
The mentioned class has been removed from the ...
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Provisioning to Azure failure on deploying CM
This problem is from a breaking change by Microsoft where they changed the default compatibility level to 150. The Sitecore cloud team was on it straight away and have released a fix which is to ...
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PaaS compatibility for WFFM and EXM?
Yes, they are both compatible.
WFFM since 8.2 Update-3 (rev. 170413), and EXM since 3.5 (rev. 170810)
More information about all modules compatible with Azure Paas can be found here: https://kb....
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Sitecore Client login Timeout error - Azure PaaS
With the help of Sitecore support, we finally found root cause.
They provided a patch for "SC_TICKET entries are never cleared from Properties table." (#223702), this issue is fixed in Sitecore 9.1
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How to manage domains in Multi-site environment with Sitecore PaaS
In Azure Portal, on your CD's (or other instances) you can add custom domains.
Before doing so, you will need to add DNS records for those domains. You can CNAME them to the xxx-cd.azurewebsites.net ...
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Azure PaaS webapp app_offline.htm Maintenance page
Using Maintenance Slots to Eliminate Deployment Downtime
Rather than use a maintenance page, you can actually avoid downtime in Azure by using multiple deployment slots. Think of this kind of like ...
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Is it possible to run Dianoga in an Azure Web App?
I've used this for a while and can confirm that it works (up to SC 8.2). Furthermore, I just tested it and it still works with Sitecore 9 in PaaS.
Once installed, look for Dianoga informational ...
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Sitecore instance is very slow after deployment in Azure Paas
With regards to the initial very large time, what you're most likely hitting is that Sitecore can max out the Azure SQL on startup to fill the prefetch cache - see Sitecore Knowledge Base Article ...
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My index on Content Delivery does not match with CM and is not updating anymore on Azure PAAS - Sitecore 9.0.2
I found out that this behavior is related to the introduction of SwitchOnRebuild for Azure Search in Sitecore 9.0.2
As from that version, Sitecore has this feature, and it is turned on by default. ...
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All search indexes missing
In my case, I'm always doing this to fix that :
Make sure your Sitecore configured properly for SOLR within
\App_Config\Sitecore\ContentSearch
Check your connectionstrings for SOLR is configured ...
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Azure Traffic Manager and Sitecore 9.2.0 PaaS
TLDR; Yes - you have to add the my.trafficmanager.net to the site
definitions of your website (considering that in your case you have
added the actual bindings to the website site removing the ...
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Where to place Custom XConnect Model file in Azure
Deploy the JSON file to below locations on Azure:
<Instance-Name>-xc-search -> App_Data/Models
<Instance-Name>-xc-search -> App_Data/jobs/continuous/IndexWorker/App_data/Models
<...
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Sitecore Email Cloud compared to the custom SMTP
The difference between Sitecore Email Cloud Delivery and Custom SMTP are pretty simple. But to really understand why they exist, some background is needed.
What is a Mail Transit Provider and why do I ...
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Azure Web App Redis timeout exceptions when under load
We managed to solve this issue with the help of Sitecore and Microsoft:
Solution:
Increase the min worker thread pool to xxx (where xxx should be greater than busy value on log)
Increase PollingTime ...
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SQL user creation is setting password of 12345, fails deployment
I found the problem. The 9.0.1 parameters.xml file in the Sitecore 9.0.1 rev. 171219 (Cloud)_xp1collection.scwdp.zip has a parameter for Messaging Database Application User:
<parameter name="...
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Dianoga implementation issue on the Azure Paas
If the targetframework of the project is lesser than 4.5.2 then try to upgrade the target framework and reinstall the Dianoga from nuget https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dianoga/3.1.1
Also do check if ...
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Azure PaaS Publishing Performance
I have put together a config from the info on this good answer for Sitecore 8.
Have a try at applying the following config on both CD and CM:
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/...
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Using Publishing Service on Azure PaaS
The Publishing Service is not yet available on Azure PaaS.
It was announced at the symposium to become available for Azure PaaS with Sitecore 9.1 release.
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Does Sitecore support Azure Web App for Containers?
Update: Since September 2019, Sitecore will provide support with any Sitecore product issues that are not unique to a containerized environment.
This means that the Support team might ask you to ...
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Redis timeout errors in Azure PaaS
It's not entirely clear if this is happening under load, but there
are a number of troubleshooting steps and configuration changes you
can make to optimise your Sitecore implementation with ...
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Error when Installing Sitecore 9.1 on Azure PaaS
So after investigation, it looks like I need to install Azure RM as a pre-requisite in order to be able to deploy Sitecore to Azure properly.
Just run those two following commands and everything it's ...
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Error while creating a WDP package using AzureToolkit
So yeah, my DacFX was installed properly, but...
The only thing that I missed is that SQL Server itself is a prerequisite as well.
Since I'm working in a VM which doesn't host any Sitecore instance (...
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Where to place Custom XConnect Model file in Azure
You will want to refer to the 'Deploy a custom model' documentation for your version. This link is for 10.0: https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/100/sitecore-experience-platform/en/deploy-a-custom-...
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