Intermittent publishing issue after upgrading from Sitecore Publishing Service 5.x to 7.x

Background Over the past few months, we've been diligently working on upgrading our platform from version 10.1.1 to 10.3.1. If you are using Publishing Service, you are required to upgrade to upgrade it to version 7.x per Sitecore's compatibility article: https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0761308The ProblemWe followed the upgrade steps very carefully, however...

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Missing language versions of items after database cleanup during upgrade

BackgroundOver the past few months, we've been diligently working on upgrading our system from version 10.1.1 to 10.3.1. However, during this process, a significant issue came to our attention. It became evident that certain language versions had been inadvertently removed from some of our items.To...

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Understanding Sitecore's Self-Adjusting Thread Pool Size Monitor

BackgroundI must admit, I have become mildly obsessed with the threading over the last couple years, mostly because a great deal of my work has involved stabilization and optimization practices on high-traffic Sitecore sites. In this post, I want to focus in the Thread Pool Size Monitor that comes...

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Sitecore Publishing Service - Using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions To Move Publishing Jobs To The Top Of The Queue

BackgroundIn my previous post, I provided a way to get a job queue report using PowerShell Extensions (SPE). In this post, I am going to show how you can use the output from the report to promote publishing jobs to the top of the queue using SPE.Large Publishing QueueYou may ask, well why? Sitecore's...

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Sitecore Publishing Service - Publishing Job Queue Report Using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions

BackgroundSitecore's Publishing Service only allows you to see a maximum of 10 items at a time within the Queued or Recent jobs reports within the dashboard.This is not ideal if you need to see how many total items are in the queue, need to get an estimate of how long it will take to get your publish...

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Sitecore Content Hub - Set up SAML-based SSO in Azure AD using an App Registration

BackgroundIn this post, I will show you how to create and configure an Azure Application Registration in your tenant to allow Sitecore Content Hub users to successfully authenticate against your Azure Active Directory.OptionsThe Content Hub team's preferred set up option is to create an Enterprise application...

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