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Sitecore Admin Pages you should know!
Sitecore has some pages that are available only for admin users. These pages are handy for debugging through specific scenarios. I list a few pages like this to my knowledge in this article.
ReadCake build - Specify MSBuild version to be used for build
Today when I started on a setup for my project, I started seeing multiple errors on the build (which made no sense :| ). After some research, I found out that I needed the MSBuild 2017 version for this to work. Although I installed the Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 the build was still failing, as the build was using the MSBuild from my Visual Studio 2022.
ReadSitecore Installation Error - Failed to start service 'Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine
Failed to start service 'Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine - scxconnect.dev.local-MarketingAutomationService (scxconnect.dev.local-MarketingAutomationService)'. This error is very frequently observed during Sitecore Installations. This article describes the cause of the error and the solution.
ReadUninstalling a Sitecore instance installed with SIA
Whenever a Sitecore installation fails or an instance takes up too much of my disk space, I end up uninstalling the Sitecore instance. I use the SIF scripts in the installation package to perform this task. This article describes the simplest way to automate uninstall tasks with SIF.
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