The Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) uses configuration files to install Sitecore and configure the whole environment. Before you are going to install Sitecore you need to download the right files for your topology. On the download site you can find three different options. For an on-premise installation you will be using the XP Single installation. This will install all the components on one machine. The XP Scaled and XM Scaled are typically used for production…
To install the Sitecore Experience Platform you need the Sitecore Installation framework first. You can download SIF from the Sitecore developer site at https://dev.sitecore.net but it is also available on the Sitecore gallery, a public MyGet feed where you can download Sitecore PowerShell modules. Registering the Repository First you will need to register the repository in PowerShell. This way PowerShell knows where to look for the Sitecore modules. To register the gallery, you will need…
Okay now that we took care of the prerequisites, it is finally time to install Sitecore. With the introduction of Sitecore we introduced something called the Sitecore Installation Framework, also known as SIF (you know we love those three letter acronyms). SIF is a PowerShell module for handling the installation and configuration of Sitecore instances. This could be a local developer installation but also production setups. It will install and configure your web instances, windows…
Before you are planning to install Sitecore you need to make sure that your environment meets all the prerequisites. First of all you need a Windows OS (8.1/10 or Windows Server 2012 R2 (64 bit) or higher) which has the .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later installed. Our latest version (Sitecore 9.0 Update 1) also requires that you have installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable. On you Windows machine you should have Internet Information Services…
Our Installing Sitecore 9 series of posts will help you understand the overall architecture of Sitecore and how to install Sitecore. For the blog series we will install Sitecore on a local Windows 10 machine. Before installing Sitecore let’s look at what Sitecore is and what logical components it consists of. The Sitecore Experience Cloud is divided into three distinct product areas. It contains: Sitecore Experience Management (XM) – content management and personalization features. Sitecore…
With the introduction of the Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 1.6 we are introducing some new functionality. The last release (1.5) was mainly targeting the sharing of content and presentation within tenants. Now in 1.6 we are introducing a new component and some additional functionality to further customize the SXA experience. Snippets The new component which we have added, Snippets, has a lot of functionality and at the same time no functionality. That is because the…
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Most of you know that with installing SXA you will get around 70 components out of the box to use on your website. But what is a bit unknown is the concept of rendering variants. What are rendering variants? Most of the components or renderings within SXA have a default visual representation. For example, the “Page Content” component simply shows the value from the content field of the current item. And that’s exactly where the…
On May 18th and 19th, the Sitecore User Group Conference was being held in Amsterdam. A conference organized by the Dutch and Nordic user groups. More than 450 Sitecore professionals from over the whole world attended this conference. In the keynote by Lars Nielsen he mentioned that he challenged the Technical Marketing team to build a demo of what you can do with Sitecore today. So that got us thinking, we wanted to do some…