Sitecore 8.2.1 on Azure PaaS Web Apps part 1: Installation using Azure Marketplace

In Sitecore 8.2 since update 1, Sitecore provided out of the box support for Azure Platform as a Service deployments. Before Sitecore 8.2.1, it was possible to deploy Sitecore using Cloud Services which required custom deployment and had a few drawbacks like no support for some Sitecore modules like WFFM or EXM, burdensome maintenance, long deployments time and requirement of integration with third-party services because of lack of automatic scaling. Since Sitecore 8.2.1 there are possible two ways of deployments: One-click deployment option using Azure Marketplace Powershell based deployment using Azure Resource Manager Templates In this post, I am going…

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So here it is, 2017!

Sometimes all we need is a fresh start and the beginning of the year is a great time for it. Everyone talks about the New Year's resolutions and there are plenty of motivational blog posts all around you. New year, new you... so it is a high time to get a pen into your hand and make a list of the New Year's goals! The first point on my list was to start a blog about programming and contribute more to the open source project. I've been thinking about starting a blog for quite a long time but always had…

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