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Banner image for Sitecore Slow Performance on First Launch Could Be Your Performance Counters Not Having Appropriate Permission article

When setting up a greenfield project I just love to see the sea of standard Sitecore home pages cascaded across my monitors as every instance in every environment comes online. I feel like Tom Hanks yelling, “Look what I have created!”, and after the first 20 times of doing so in the office I got “The talk”. But it's not unusual to see a slow start which typically boils down to a connection or permission error. This can be quickly identified and dealt with by just checking the logs, and performance counters is no stranger to this exercise.

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Banner image for Configuring EXM's SMTP Settings article

Sitecore's EXM won't be able to send mail until it's configured to connect to a Delivery Provider, but the good news is a simple patch file will do the trick! 

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Banner image for Creating a Custom Report with Advanced System Reporter article

You may have read my post about using the Advanced System Reporter module which is available in the Sitecore Marketplace, so if you're a fan of what it can do then you're going to eventually create your own custom reports. Well you're in the right place so let's get started!

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Banner image for Who Did What? Auditing the Actions of Sitecore Authors Is Easy with These Simple Tools. article

Do you need to find out what just happened with some Sitecore items? Authenticated Users such as Authors have their activities logged, so what you want is an easy way to get to this information. There's a couple of tools that are easy to use so let's have a look at them.

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Banner image for Sitecore Restarting 120 Times in a Day Is Not What I Call Ideal article

Our site is launched, all is well, and our Dev team can sleep tonight. But the day after launch the site restarts over 120 times! The fix was simple but the journey to find the answer is worth sharing.

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