Sitecore 9 on Azure

Walkthrough: Deploying a new Sitecore environment to the Microsoft Azure App service

Sitecore 9.2 PaaS On Azure: A Hosting Price Breakdown

Sitecore – howtos and useful links

Sitecore Content Delivery Role:
On this page you will find all related to howto configure the servers:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/82/setting_up_and_maintaining/xdb

This page has a summary about the scalability options. It is useful to understand why we split Sitecore into CM and CD:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/82/setting_up_and_maintaining/xdb/platform/scalability_options

Here is the full explanation about how to configure a CA server:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/82/setting_up_and_maintaining/xdb/configuring_servers/configure_a_content_management_server

Here is the full explanation of how to configure a CD server. It’s quite complex:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/82/setting_up_and_maintaining/xdb/configuring_servers/configure_a_content_delivery_server

So, if you don’t want to spend several days applying all configuration manually, this is the solution:
https://github.com/sitecore/sitecore-configuration-roles

In fact, this easy way works so well, that Sitecore took it and implement it on SC9 as an out-of-the-box feature. You can see it in the official SC9 documentation:
https://doc.sitecore.net/developers/server-role-configuration-reference/core-roles/content-delivery.html

Sitecore + Solr in cluster:
This is the official documentation that Sitecore provides:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up_and_maintaining/search_and_indexing/walkthrough_setting_up_solr

This blog explains it in a detailed way (disclaimer: I don’t have Solr skills to check this blog):

Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 1 – Architecture

Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 2 – Setting up Zookeeper and Solr

Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 3 – Creating Your Sitecore Collection

Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 4 – Tuning Solr for Production

Here is another blogs:
https://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/search/solr/Install-and-configure-SolrCloud/

Setup Solr for Sitecore Production

Unicorn:
Official source and documentation about it. The process to implement it in CI is on this page:
https://github.com/kamsar/Unicorn

About how to use Transparent Sync:
https://kamsar.net/index.php/2015/10/Unicorn-Introducing-Transparent-Sync/

As a Plan-B, don’t forget you have Sitecore Ship to push item packages to different environments:
https://github.com/kevinobee/Sitecore.Ship

Announcing Sitecore 9

https://tech-blog.medtouch.com/2017/10/

…Sitecore 9 allows organizations like this to use alternative databases to store this type of information. Utilizing MongoDB, SQL Azure, SQL Server 2016 or even Azure’s DocumentDB, organizations can store their analytics reliably in a technology they feel comfortable with….

Session: Better Together: Sitecore on Azure

https://tech-blog.medtouch.com/2016/09/16/session-better-together-sitecore-on-azure/

How to reset Sitecore admin password

Switch to your core database and execute the SQL below to reset the password to b:

UPDATE [aspnet_Membership] SET Password=’qOvF8m8F2IcWMvfOBjJYHmfLABc=’
WHERE UserId IN (SELECT UserId FROM [aspnet_Users] WHERE UserName = ‘sitecore\Admin’)
Alternatively navigate to /sitecore/admin/unlock_admin.aspx and click Unlock Administrator. For this to work, you must first “unlock” the functionality. Open up the .aspx file and modify the following code:

// TODO: to enable the page, set enableUnlockButton = true;
private bool enableUnlockButton = false;

28 Days of Sitecore Rocks: Package Creation

Creating Sitecore packages is a task that all seasoned Sitecore developers are familiar with. Unfortunately we are also familiar with how easy it is to forget an item or a file required for a feature to work correctly. Today we will be discussing how Sitecore Rocks can simplify and streamline the package creation process.

Keep reading here: https://community.sitecore.net/technical_blogs/b/trevor_campbell/posts/28-days-of-sitecore-rocks-package-creation