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If you are a Sitecore developer and you are working with a team then i am sure you will need to serialize your items to take under one roof. so that any team member take it easily. So we have two ways to do these things. a. Create a package and install b. Use TDS/Unicorn to sync your items. first approach personally i don't like because it will take too much time and creation a package a headache. So i will prefer second approach due to flexibility and maintainability. right now i am choosing TDS. Unicorn setup we will create later so in this post we will install and configure TDS. What is TDS? Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) gives you the ability to keep track of all the Sitecore items in your project, by bringing them into a Microsoft compliant Source Code Control system. Using TDS, you will improve the control and overall performance of the team and your project. it have many benefits like your all Sitecore items and code are stored in a single repository, m

Some times we need SSL certificate for local host website so we can create by power shell. So i love power shell and its working looks like charm that's why i prefer it. so i put script here to create SSL. just follow that. so open power shell as admin mode and copy this script and change your DNS name. means put your host name here and press enter. it will show you created details as per certificate. $dnsname = " www.etc.com " $pwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "123456" -Force -AsPlainText $print = (New-SelfSignedCertificate -certstorelocation cert:\localmachine\my -dnsname $dnsname).Thumbprint $path = "c:\Windows\temp\cert.pfx" Export-PfxCertificate -cert cert:\localMachine\my\$print -FilePath $path -Password $pwd $file = ( Get-ChildItem -Path $path ) Go IIS and select binding for particualr website where you want to bind and select https. Under SSL Certificate dropdown you will found certificate which you created earli

Recently i faced one issue in List Manager while adding contact list. i worked on EXM and that time i need to upload a contact list to send my campaign. so everything was set when i upload contact list i have see error looks like. Whatever i have uploaded list its not showing under list. 😖 i confused why its happening. again i think that the issue coming due to locking list. i am moving to unlock list and successfully unlock but till now i didn't see list. still facing this issue. So after doing google and read many articles on that i found something and sort out this issue. you know when you uploaded contact list it will store in MongoDB and its taking time. that's why its occured. So we have to go admin page and check do we have listmanager.aspx or not? if not found then we have to download this package and install in sitecore. after installation just go your instance and put below url. it  will redirect list manager page. yourinstance/sitecore/admi

I have got a chance to take an exam for Sitecore 9.0,8.2 professional developer online and i passed. so here i am going to share my experience for that which will help you in exam. a. Firstly i would suggest that complete the training which provide by Sitecore carefully. here is the link you can register here your self. Register b. If you are new in Sitecore then, firstly complete free training so that you have got idea hows the things going on. after that you can purchase Sitecore training accordingly. c. In Sitecore 9.0 training have 8 labs. just complete carefully. once you have complete labs then each labs have some practice question so read and choose correct answer. d. Once you complete the training you got voucher from Sitecore to take exam. in this email have all the steps what you need to do so read it carefully each and every point and register you self for exam and choose online proctor exam. e. Once you cleared the exam then, you become a cer

If you are working on Sitecore then mongo db compulsory to install for storing data. So here I am write some simple steps to install mongo db. Firstly, we have to download MongoDB so we can download zip file from this link as per suitable version.   Download so once you finish download just extract this folder on D: drive under MongoDB folder or where you want. I have just put on D drive. Go inside bin folder and copy this address. Note: MongoDB folder I have created. Open command prompt as admin mode and switch directory and paste this path to go inside this folder Second Step we have to create data folder under MongoDB folder and one more folder we have to create with db name under data folder to store data. Let’s move on command prompt to run mongo. You already in bin folder so just copy below command and paste it. mongod.exe --dbpath "D:\MongoDB\data\db" when press enter it will show you waiting for connection

   EXM Part 2:    Explore EXM emails and reporting Data. EXM module divided in to two series. EXM Part 1:   Install&Configure EXM . EXM Part 2:   Explore EXM emails and reporting Data. In previous article we had setup EXM and test MTA. So let’s play with EXM and explore some basic feature like personalize email, multilingual email, reporting data. Let’s start with list manager to create contact list. I have already created list in local and put some emails. It’s have three fields. First Name Last Name Email Address three fields mandatory to upload contact list. If you want to more fields like that preferred language, phone etc. then you have to add filed in core data base to below path. /sitecore/client/Applications/List Manager/Dialogs/ImportWizardDialog/PageSettings/TabControl Parameters/Map/ImportModel For now just skip this steps. Click on launch pad and moving to create contact list. So I have created one contact list with c

  EXM Part 1:    Install&Configure EXM EXM module divided in to two series. EXM Part 1:  Install&Configure EXM . EXM Part 2:  Explore EXM emails and reporting Data. Recently I got a chance to configure EXM at my instance so I think I should be capture all the steps. So let's start to configure Sitecore Email Experience Manager and send emails. I am using Sitecore 8.2 update 7 so I have download EXM as per my version. For download the EXM you can go with this URL https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Email_Experience_Manager.aspx So when you finish downloading and extract folder you see many files but you have to pick below highlited file.     Before installation we have to put some configuration like connection string and authenticated key under connection String file   Installation Pre-requisite Here I am going to mention what we need to do before installation EXM. We have to do steps in connection string to add empty connection and au