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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Launchpad button disappear from Sitecore



One of my colleague working on Sitecore desktop instance and he called me for help that his Launchpad icon is just disappear.
If you login to Sitecore desktop, normally Launchpad icon looks as highlighted with yellow box below 

With Launchpad Icon
With Launchpad Icon


However, on my colleague system, Launchpad icon was missing as 

Without Launchpad Icon
Without Launchpad Icon
 

Due to this he can’t choose any of the options like control panel or desktop.
Solution: 


Just logged-out and login again. You will get your Launchpad button again. 

This trick worked for him. But I suppose this is temporary solution. I was unable to reproduce it on my system so unable to figure out the exact cause. 

Let me know if anyone knows the root cause and its permanent solution.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Sitecore Hosting Environment Configuration Table


In every Sitecore project, hosting environment set up is very important stage. One need to choose right hosting server configuration so that Sitecore website run smoothly.

Refer below table as a quick reference for Sitecore hosting environment configuration detail


Sitecore Hosting Environment Configuration Table
Specification
CM/CD Web Server
CM/CD Database Server
Session State Server
OS
Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit
Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit
Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit
CPU
4 x CPU E5 2650 v2
Dual Quad Core Processors
Dual Quad Core Processors
Memory
16 GB RAM
16 GB RAM
16 GB RAM
Disk Space
250 GB
HDD Disk
250 GB disk for data files
250 GB disk for log files
250 GB disk for data files
250 GB disk for log files
IIS Version
IIS 7.x or greater – 64bit


App Pool Mode
Integrated Mode - Integrated ‘Load User Profile’ should be set to true.
NA
NA
SQL Version
NA
SQL Server 2008
R2/2012/2014- 64bit
SQL Server 2008
R2/2012/2014- 64bit
Dedicated Server/cluster
YES
YES
YES


I hope you like this Sitecore lesson. Stay tuned for more Sitecore related articles.

Till that happy sitecoring :)

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