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Michael West

United States

MVP 2026

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Timeline

2025

28/Nov

Precision Scheduler updates

Shared updates to the module used for internal projects. Now you can alter the misfire behavior.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

24/Nov

Test Sitecore Packages

Submitted updates to help with testing Sitecore web deploy packages (scwdp).

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

17/Nov

Released Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 8.0

After more than a year and numerous hours of contributions, we released Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 8.0. The XM/XP module, documentation, PowerShell remoting module, and Docker images were released for the latest version.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

30/Oct

Docker error when building images

Encountered an issue with Docker when trying to build images.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

18/Jun

Download log files nested in folders

Posted a question and answer on how to download log files from Sitecore using SPE. The particularly interesting point is that the implementation supports when the log files are organized into folders.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

10/May

Clean orphaned blob records

Provided scripts used to clean up stale data following an upgrade from Sitecore XM 10.2 to 10.4.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2025

7/Mar

Sitecore Hackathon 2025 Judge

Helped to organize, promote, and judge the 2025 Sitecore Hackathon event. My sincerest appreciate to Akshay Sura and Sitecore for supporting the event.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

8/Jan

Use of Read-Variable and variables with SPE

Posted a question and answer on how to use variables in the Validator field of the command Read-Variable.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

30/Nov

Answers to various questions

Provided responses to various questions related to Sitecore XM/XP.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

5/Nov

SPE 8.0

Published SPE 8.0 to GitHub and Docker Hub.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

9/Oct

Question on search results pagination

Self-answered question on paginating search results when using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

3/Oct

Security Override 1.1

Release version 1.1 of a module for overriding item security.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

30/Aug

Question on Traefik upgrade

Self-answered workaround to an issue migrating from Traefik 2.9 to 3.x.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

12/Aug

Question on Publishing Service error message

Self-answered question related to an error when publishing items missing a revision or language version.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

8/Aug

Sample repo for testing modules in Docker

Made updates to the build process when deploying to the docker containers.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2024

8/Jul

Question on SXA data sources

Self-answered question related to SXA on the differences between local: and page: data sources.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP

2023

6/Dec

Question on SPE reporting

Self-answered question on how to create a report of reports using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions.

Sitecore XM Sitecore XP Sitecore XM Cloud