Cannot login into Sitecore. [Friday Case]

A post about one of the most random problems ever. I was pulling my hair out for a while on this one, thus this definitely deserves the right to be highlighted in the “Friday Case” category.

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Unapproved content gets published [Friday Case]

Today in a Friday Case category, which features support cases causing to pull my hair out, a very interesting issue I’ve had with a customer reporting that unapproved content was going live quite unexpectedly.
After witnessing the issue with my own eyes when an item just created and not pushed via workflow was magically showing up in production after a few minutes, I decided to investigation Sitecore configuration. This revealed a PublishAgent that was enabled to run frequently, but nothing else.

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Sitecore Rendering Parameters – Friday Gotcha

One of the things I’ve learnt today is that Rendering Parameters is an extremely cool feature of Sitecore .NET CMS. It really empowers your editors by giving them ability to tweak parameters of your renderings in a very easy and intuitive way.

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Friday case: Sitecore is not starting up

Just had to deal with a pretty mysterious issue when my Sitecore app stopped staring up for whatever reasons.
Symptoms:
- nothing happens, browser just hangs with the “Connecting…” message
- nothing in the Sitecore logs
- nothing in the Event Viewer
- nothing unusual on the SQL side
- nothing unusually heavy on the worker process – CPU is idling out, memory is fine.

In overall, a sign that something is inherently wrong.

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