Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 8.0 - Wayward Son

SPE 8.0 “Wayward Son” is here and it is a big one. This release packs 7 new features, 30 improvements, and 30 bug fixes - all shaped by the community that makes SPE what it is.

I know this announcement is long overdue. The release itself shipped a while back, but the blog you are reading this on has just been reborn. After years on WordPress, the SPE blog now lives on GitHub Pages as a static Hugo site - faster, cheaper, and fully open. It felt right to celebrate that re-launch by finally giving 8.0 the proper write-up it deserves.

Showing external content with your Sitecore PowerShell scripts

Sitecore PowerShell Extensions have proven time and again as a great tool for manipulating and exposing Sitecore content, but that about if you need to show your authors something that is external to your Sitecore instance? This blog shows a number of techniques to show pages and embedded content in various ways as part of your script execution.

Showing external content in a new tab

The most obvious way is to show your author an external page as a new tab in the browser. This can be achieved by executing a JavaScript expression that will become available in SPE 4.4+

Session state elevation

Why session Elevation was introduced and why it is important for the security of your environment as well as how to configure it.