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Using EXM for sending about 4 million emails a day
Is it needed to use dispatch server in case of using Sitecore Email Cloud?
Yes, Sitecore Email Cloud is simply the mail transit provider. You still need dispatch servers to generate the emails and ...
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What ports are needed to be open in a Sitecore environment?
I don't have an infrastructure diagram, but here is some highlights of the ports you will need to open to establish the communication between Sitecore and the modules/services.
WFFM & EXM: The ...
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Sitecore 8.2 does not officially support Windows Server 2016 but is it compatible in reality and will it work in production
It comes down to support.
Is there a known reason Sitecore wouldn't work on 2016? No. It will run on 2016 and in all likelihood there will not be any major issues in doing so.
But if there is; ...
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Sitecore infrastructure question
You're going to need a more than 10 servers to do 2M hits per second. Assuming each page is 100 hits, you need to serve 20k pages each second. Caching strategies will be critical. MongoDB is going to ...
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Dedicated CM server for scheduled publish
Sitecore Publishing Instance is nothing but a clone instance of Sitecore CM environment.
On CM server, open \Website\App_Config\Include\Scalability.config file. Update Publish Instance Name as below.
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Sitecore 9 Infrastructure (roles and services required) Design in Azure
Azure PaaS on the Cheap
Your focus seems to be on reducing costs, so the first thing to make sure of is to reduce the number of app service plans being used. This doesn't necessarily mean merging ...
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How many Master databases should you have across all environments?
In my current environment we have the following (Sitecore XM 10.2):
DEV : Configured as a standalone instance where a single instance of MSSQL hosts all databases. This is running on the local ...
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Convert SOLR Standalone mode to SolrCloud mode
From your question what I understand is that you want a kind of blue-green migration of Solr into SolrCloud. I will suggest you, perform a rebuild index so that you will have everything thing new in ...
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Dedicated CM server for scheduled publish
If you have setup 2 CM servers, both will be able to publish. So you need to make sure that they only publish their own jobs.
As SitecoreClimber mentioned, you can use the Publishing....
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Sitecore 8.2 does not officially support Windows Server 2016 but is it compatible in reality and will it work in production
Sitecore 8.2 Update 3 does support Windows Server 2016.
https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/087164
In the operation systems table, Windows Server 2016 is checked under 8.2 and links to the following ...
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Sitecore 9 Infrastructure (roles and services required) Design in Azure
If you are not planning on using marketing automation, you might want to setup an XM environment. XM is sitecore CMS-only and doesn't include xDB.
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/...
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Best options available for Application (Sitecore Website) & Infra Monitoring
As the application is hosted in Azure, so you can get utilize Azure services like:
Azure Application Insights: Application Insights is a feature of Azure Monitor that provides extensible application ...
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Stopping Sitecore application for server fixes
Your site will be inaccessible during maintenance and usually, it is recommended to stop/restart IIS out of working hours when almost no one uses your site. Existing data should not be lost, but site ...
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Convert SOLR Standalone mode to SolrCloud mode
We recently migrated our existing Solr to Solr cloud on the Prod environments. We followed a similar kind of approach suggested by Mahendra. We first migrated the Solr to Solr Cloud on the CM by ...
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How do I solve Reporting role log errors related to reference data?
It looks like the Reporting role is configured incorrectly out of the box. It does not have the Reference Data subsystem enabled. Here's how you can fix this.
Step 1
Open the file Sitecore.Xdb....
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Sitecore 9 Infrastructure (roles and services required) Design in Azure
you can run all the services in one of the other roles - so minimum need without discussing what the performance requiresments of the site it should run is difficult. You can just move all webroles to ...
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Sitecore infrastructure question
Load of each Sitecore implementation is unique depending on how it is designed, caching, components, etc..
This question is also opinion based, IMHO. However, I do want to advice you to reach out to ...
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Dedicated CM server for scheduled publish
I can confirm that such approach can be really useful from our experiences. We are using a quite huge infrastructure set-up for our solution: like five independent clusters, every cluster contain one ...
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