Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8: Software and Hardware Requirements

The new Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8 has lot of changes from the previous Sitecore version. There is a need of latest Software and Hardware to run a new SXP instance. The detailed explanation is available in dev.sitecore.net. Here is the quick overview of the requirements.

Requirements for Sitecore Experience Platform:

Internet Information Services (IIS):

• IIS 8.5
• IIS 8.0
• IIS 7.5
• IIS 7.0

Operating System (OS):

• Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) SP1+
• Windows Server 2008 (32/64-bit) SP2+
• Windows Vista (32/64-bit) SP2+ (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)
• Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
• Windows 8 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
• Windows 7 (32/64-bit, Home Premium and higher) SP1+ (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional)

.NET Framework:

• .NET Framework 4.5

Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio 2012 or later

Database: (supports corresponding express edition)

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014
• MongoDB Database 2.6.1 or later (for Sitecore xDB)

Hardware:

• Minimum: 4 core processor (4 threads), 8GB of RAM
• Recommended by Sitecore: 4 core processor (8 threads), 16GB of RAM

Sitecore - Smart Tools - Copy & Move Item/Sub-Items

This is a very simple module that will help the Sitecore content authors to Copy and Move items based on the requirement.

Functionalities:

 - Copy all the sub-items

 - Copy only the current item (no sub-items)

 - Move all the sub-items.

Installation:

 - It is a Sitecore package and you can install it using Installation Wizard. Download here. 

Usage: 

 - Once installed, a chunk will added to Home tab with 3 buttons.

 - On clicking these buttons, a dialog will be opened to choose the destination.

 - Based on the selection, items will be moved or copied to the destination.

Unlocking Sitecore items leads to Anonymous Update

In Sitecore 6.6, if a content author unlocks his locked Sitecore items (using Review / My Items command), Sitecore executes a job and unlocks the items. When it unlocks, it also updates the item’s modified details with anonymous user.

Below item was modified by a test user using Lock and Edit.

Once user unlock the item using Sitecore unlock feature, the item will be updated by anonymous user. 

Sitecore support team has acknowledged this as a bug (#416532) and have provided a fix.

- Place the assembly in the bin folder. 

- Replace the following lines in your Website/App_Config/Commands.config file:

   <!-- <command name="webedit:unlock" type="Sitecore.Shell.Applications.WebEdit.Commands.Unlock,Sitecore.Client"/>-->

   <!-- <command name="webedit:unlockall" type="Sitecore.Shell.Applications.WebEdit.Commands.UnlockAll,Sitecore.Client"/>-->

   <command name="webedit:unlock" type="Sitecore.Support.Shell.Applications.WebEdit.Commands.Unlock, Sitecore.Support.338528"/>

   <command name="webedit:unlockall" type="Sitecore.Support.Shell.Applications.WebEdit.Commands.UnlockAll, Sitecore.Support.338528"/>