Wednesday, 9 September 2026

From on-prem Item Service to SCS YAML to SitecoreAI

 We didn’t set out to invent a migration framework. We needed physician-related templates (and a bit of lookup content) on Sitecore AI DEV — with the same item IDs as the legacy XM database — so anything that already keyed off those GUIDs wouldn’t fall apart later.

Packages felt like the quick button (but that is gone :( ). YAML ended up being the better long-term play. This is how that played out, including the boring parts that actually burn the day.