Saturday, July 30, 2011

Sitecore Developer Network Search just got a bit better


We just pushed an update to the SDN search, which included greatly enhanced search within Sitecore Community Blogs, and integrated SDN Forum. Now you should be able to search against any Sitecore resource from one place!

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Among other enhancements, we’ve improved search relevancy by tweaking a few settings and ignoring landing pages.

Hope you see the difference.

Feel free to provide feedback, especially if your own blog is not getting indexed by us.

Enjoy!

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Windows Authentication for Sitecore. Repost


Back in 08 I posted this walkthrough on how to configure Sitecore to use Windows Authentication for SQL connection and effectively remove the username and password from the connectionStrings.config file.
Here is a quick repost of the walkthrough with a few tweaks for SQL 2008 / Windows 2008 (R2) and Sitecore 6.4.x/6.5 (some steps are not required any more):