Walkthrough: Deploying a new Sitecore environment to the Microsoft Azure App service
Tag Archives: sitecore
Advanced Serialization with Unicorn – April Meetup 2016
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 2 – Setting up Zookeeper and Solr
Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 3 – Creating Your Sitecore Collection
Here is another blogs:
https://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/search/solr/Install-and-configure-SolrCloud/
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/
Sitecore Unicorn
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