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Welcome to another short story about debugging an issue we faced recently during our production release. We use Azure DevOps build/release pipelines to release our code to higher environments. The Problem We have an Install Sitecore Items task in release pipeline to install Sitecore items on higher environments. We started facing an issue where the task failed with below errors - 2023-12-20T21:17:46.2357659Z Root config: C:\azagent\A3\_work\_tasks\InlinePowershell_31f040e5-e040-4336-878a-59a493355534\1.1.7\sitecore.json 2023-12-20T21:17:46.2383724Z [GraphQLHttpException] Unexpected HttpResponseMessage with code: InternalServerError 2023-12-20T21:17:46.2499102Z at GraphQL.Client.Http.Internal.GraphQLHttpHandler.ReadHttpResponseMessageAsync(HttpResponseMessage httpResponseMessage) 2023-12-20T21:17:46.2500367Z at GraphQL.Client.Http.Internal.GraphQLHttpHandler.PostAsync(GraphQLRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken) 2023-12-20T21:17:46.2501478Z at Sitecore.DevEx.Core.Client

Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS) is a system for serializing, sharing, and deploying content items, as well as keeping them in version control. It combines best of both Unicorn and TDS tools used widely in Sitecore applications for content serialization. If you havent used it yet, you should give it a try and learn more from  here . The Problem Recently, while performing a dotnet sitecore ser pull command to get latest updates of an item into source control, I got the below errors -  System.InvalidOperationException: Error while writing serialized item C:\projects\MyProbject.Website\src\Project\MyProjct\code\module\serialization\MySite\Home.yml ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Serialized version contained a blank language value! So this looked familiar with invariant language issue where an item may have field values in a language that doesn't exist or to put simply no language or blank language. This makes the item an invalid item and hence, it fails the serializati