Unofficial Sitecore 8 Training

Are you new to Sitecore? Have you taken the certification training but are still lost?  Akshay Sura and Mike Reynolds have put together a webinar to help.

There are two times based on your timezone to help.  MVPs are already volunteering to present parts of it. Register now as space may be limited.

If you would like to present a topic, reach out to @akshay or @mike_i_reynolds

Would you like a mentor to help you through your deployment?  Let me know chris.williams@readwatchcreate.com

Sitecore MVP Summit 2015 in New Orleans

Flying in from Toronto on the early flight to a comedian discussing taking our 8-track out to get checked.  You could tell he really loved his job and everyone enjoyed the humor.

Arriving in Atlanta, I ran into Ben Golden, an fellow MVP from Aware. Another MVP from Arke was boarding as well.  On landing in New Orleans, we met up with the rest of the Arke gang and shared a taxi to the hotel.  I got to meet another Chris who is from Arke and who is also an MVP.

The elevators displayed the start of our journey for the week.  I will post more pics and stories as the week progresses.

IIS is not Serving CSS or JavaScript or Images when accessing Sitecore Admin

A possible reason is that IIS is not serving Static Content.  On the server access Server Manager and choose Role Services.  Ensure the Static Content checkbox is checked.

Sitecore 8 and Windows 2012 running .NET 4.5.2 gives 500 error

When you first install Sitecore 8 it will complain about the TargetFramework and as trained well you will go to IIS and change the version of the App Pool to 4.0.  Now you don't get the error but you do get a 500 Error.  You check the logs but no leads.

If you go to IIS and click on the sitecore website and then click on .net compilation you will see the real error.

It turns out that by setting the right .NET Version you hide the real error which is resolved by running aspnet_regiis -r

Sitecore 8 and Amazon RDS

This is my first install on Amazon so I thought I would document the steps as I go and provide any gotchas I have run into.  If you have run into any gotchas email me at chris.williams@readwatchcreate.com and I will add them here.

Step 1: Install Sitecore 8 Locally

The first step is to install Sitecore 8 on your local computer or another server instance where you have a true SQL Server (could be express).

Step 2: Set up RDS

Next set up your RDS database. There are lots of articles on how to set this up so I wont dive into that here however when setting up your RDS database make sure you apply these settings so you can access the database from your local SQL Management Studio.  You will need this in order to migrate the content from your local instance

Step 3: Migrate Sitecore 8 Databases to RDS using Migration Wizard

Download SQLAzureMW - SQL Database Migration Wizard to migrate the database to RDS

Oshyn has a good article on Sitecore Deployment on Amazon RDS that explains this migration step


To Be Continue ....

Method not found: 'Boolean Sitecore.Data.Templates.TemplateField.get_IgnoreDictionaryTranslations()'

I actually had this happen to me on Sitecore 7.1 and found this article suggesting the Sitecore.Kernel is the wrong version.

We're using Sitecore 7.5 for our sites. In the Content Editor, any time I click on a template, I get the following error: Method not found: 'Boolean Sitecore.Data.Templates.TemplateField.get_IgnoreDictionaryTranslations()'.

I will give it a try and if it fixes it will let you know.  If  I find another solution I will post it here.

If you have any ideas please email me at chris.williams@readwatchcreate.com

Sitecore Community

The Sitecore Community is officially in beta. This is a great source to Ask Questions and Find Answers from knowledgeable people in the community.  I highly recommend you register and check it out.

When you check it out and connect with me at https://community.sitecore.net/members/chriswilliams_5f00_1888265814

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share with the Guild please email them to me at chris.williams@readwatchcreate.com