Monthly Archive: October 2016

ImageVault Core service not working due to mismatch with database schema and code versions

Just as a note to self. We recently did a POC on upgrading to the latest EPiServer (8.5 to 9.5) and ImageVault (4.X to 4.8) versions for my current client’s website. Everything went as expected, there were a few things that wouldn’t build in Visual Studio which were easily fixed. After switching back to do work in another Git branch I returned to the POC …

Possible causes of 401 Unauthorized ImageVaultException: Unable to request access token @ https://localhost:9901/oauth/token

The last couple of weeks I’ve been fiddling alot with various ImageVault instances and certificates in different environments and found that a common source of annoyance is the ImageVaultException stating that it’s Unable to request access token @ https://localhost:9901/oauth/token. It’s not always straight forward what might be causing this problem. I’ve summarized a couple of possible culprits in this article. The ImageVault sdkIdentity secret The …

Simple functionality for hreflang metadata in EPiServer websites

The alternate hreflang tag is a way of letting search engines such as Google know about the different languages that your pages exist in. It’s a signal to the engines that they may use in order to serve more relevant content to users based on language. One place to put this information is directly in the markup as below (Other alternatives here). A translated page …

Reminders when changing user on ImageVault Core Windows Service

We needed to change the service account user running the ImageVault Core service in my current client’s production environment the other day. Here are a few reminders on what this actually means; that’ll likely also be useful setting up new environments. Changing user on ImageVault Host Service (MyInstance) ImageVault Core’s service needs access to your image files Why does half of my ImageVault images work, …