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Dean OBrien

United Kingdom

MVP 2025

Technology

United Kingdom
MVP 2024

Technology

United Kingdom
MVP 2023

Technology

United Kingdom

Timeline

2025

31/Jan

Technology 2025

Technology 2025

2024

27/Nov

Blog post summary page

This page contains a list of the blog posts that I would like to be considered for my MVP Application.

Sitecore XP

2024

24/Nov

Webinar: Using AI with Sitecore

I delivered a webinar to our IT department, where I explored various ways AI can enhance the user experience within the Sitecore platform. The focus was on demonstrating how even simple AI implementations can deliver substantial benefits.

Sitecore XP

2024

16/Oct

Language Assistant Module for Sitecore

This module allows you to ask an AI Assistant to review the content of your web pages and suggest changes.

Sitecore XP

2024

30/Jul

Service Listener for SOLR

I created a simple service monitor, which when used in conjunction with the Application Insights module can send alerts if the service is ever down. More details on the blog summary page.

Sitecore XP

2024

24/Jun

Consume Layout Service for Sitecore

This is one of two repositories that demonstrate how to consume the custom layout service using a NextJs Application. The app uses the latest version of NextJs (routing via App Router) and authorizes via Auth.js in combination with Sitecore Identity Server.

Sitecore XP

2024

10/Jun

Custom Layout Service Module for Sitecore

This module provides endpoints to expose layout information, item detail and rendering content for consumption by a headless web app. The purpose was to provide an alternative route to explore headless, for those without the JSS module.

Sitecore XP

2024

18/May

Barriers to XM Cloud

In this blog post I explored the pros and cons of moving to XM Cloud. Looking at it from the prospective of an existing XP customer on a perpetual license.

Sitecore XP

2024

25/Apr

Added Alerting and Entra Authentication to Application Insights Module

I added alerting functionality to my Application Insights module, allowing it to monitor any application (including each sitecore xconnect instance) and fire alerts if specific criteria are reached. I also updated the module to use Entra authentication, instead of the legacy API key approach. More details on the blogs summary page.

Sitecore XP

2024

9/Mar

Login hanging on Identity Server

In this blog post I talk about our experiences troubleshooting an issue with Identity Server timing out.

Sitecore XP

2024

31/Jan

Technology 2024

Technology 2024

2023

31/Jan

Technology 2023

Technology 2023

2022

21/Sep

How to confirm data is flowing into xconnect

Some information to help people trouble shoot if data is flowing into XConnect,

Sitecore XP

2022

10/Jul

Unresponsive CM Instance after deployment

At look at how our misconfiguration of our CDN led to major performance issues

Sitecore XP

2022

25/Jun

Upgrade identity server as part of main upgrade

Sharing my experience of an issue that we faced during an upgrade from 9.3 to 10.1.

Sitecore XP

2022

9/Jun

Sitecore: AlreadyExists, Contact. XdbContext Batch Execution Exception

A look at a major issue we faced with XConnect.

Sitecore XP

2022

30/May

Help! Loss of all content!

A look at the circumstances that led to all of our content being unpublished from sitecore website

Sitecore XP

2022

13/Apr

How to automate the building of SQL Snapshot images using scheduled tasks

Our approach to creating daily snapshot images of production databases

Sitecore XP

2022

21/Feb

Reducing the size of the master DB

A series of blog posts that looks at our journey reducing the master database from over 1TB to less than 2GB.

Sitecore XP

2021

14/Dec

Presentation on Docker and Kubernetes

This is a recording of a presentation I was asked to give to our IT Department. The focus of the talk was to introduce the concepts of Docker and Kubernetes and how it can be used to host our Sitecore Environment.

Sitecore XP