Sitecore XM to XM Cloud Content Migration

December 5, 2023October 15, 2025 Ivan Brygar4 Comments

Agenda:

Introduction
What does this tool do?
What does the tool look like?
What ZIP file contain?
Prerequisites
Sitecore XM Migration GUI
Sitecore XM Migration Console

Sitecore has lots of customers who developed their solution based on classic Sitecore OnPrem which exists in the market for 2 decades. Also, Sitecore released the XM Cloud, a fully SaaS solution in July 2022.

Lots of customers continue to use the OnPrem solutions, new customers prefer to use the SaaS version and of course, some would like to switch to it, but it requires lots of effort. Sitecore just released to the public a brand-new XM to XM Cloud Content Migration tool that assists in minimizing the account’s barriers to migrating to Composable DXP.

What does this tool do?

It helps migrate customers’ data from the source of the XM OnPrem instance to the XM Cloud account. It migrates the content, media, and internal users (but not custom site data at this moment).

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Security in Sitecore Order Cloud and Access Token

January 6, 2022May 12, 2022 Ivan BrygarLeave a comment

The Sitecore Order Cloud is a rich and mature e-commerce engine.

It has a few must-know security related definitions:

Security Profiles– a custom scope of the roles which can be assigned to the different levels: user, user group, buyer, seller, or supplier level.
Roles – this is data access, which can be granularly assigned, for example, BuyerReader, BuyerAdmin, OrderAdmin, etc.:

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Disable bots detection in Sitecore

June 10, 2021June 10, 2021 Ivan BrygarLeave a comment

There are may be needs for you to test some visits in Sitecore to determine each visit precisely but some of them are not handled because Sitecore may think this is not real interactions, especially if make interactions via JMeter, Locust or K6. To disable bots detection you should follow the next steps:

Open the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\<instance name>\App_Config\Sitecore\Marketing.Tracking\Sitecore.Analytics.Tracking.config
Find two settings:
- Analytics.AutoDetectBots
- Analytics.Robots.IgnoreRobots

Set the both values of the settings from true to to false.

<!--  ANALYTICS AUTO DETECT BOTS
            Enable auto detection of bots.
            Default: true
-->
<setting name="Analytics.AutoDetectBots" value="false" />

<!--  ANALYTICS ROBOTS IGNORE ROBOTS
            Ignore requests and do not write information to the Analytics database when the visitor 
            classification identifies the visitor as a robot.
            Default: true
-->
<setting name="Analytics.Robots.IgnoreRobots" value="false" />

Now each visits will be considered as a valid visit and each visit will be tracked.

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How to resolve Java heap space exception in Solr

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Ivan Brygar2 Comments

For the last few days I’ve noticed weird behavior in Sitecore instances which are related to Solr, for example:

indexes are rebuilding with exceptions;
sitecore instance is being slow;
lost connection to Solr;
not able to restart the Solr service, it’s just take an infinity time to stop.

For all of this things I haven’t pay much attention to start troubleshooting, because I’m working in another area which not related to indexes, the behaviour is quite new for me and just simple reboot has helped.

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Personalization

July 2, 2020July 3, 2020 Ivan BrygarLeave a comment

Personalization provides the right content to the right audience.

What does it mean? – For example, you are a customer of http://www.myGrocceryShop.com and usually, you buy vegetables and fruits online. Maybe you are not aware, but the grocery shop already know your behavior. Next time in the main page of the website you will see a bunch of fresh vegetables instead of meat or potato chips. You will see more targeted offers personalized for you.

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