Sitecore Swamp

Issue:

It's quite common scenario for a Sitecore consultant to spin up a environment from existing implementation. After you reset password for the Admin user, you still have the error prompt on your face:

Investigation:

And you checked in the database, the user ("B09BBCDE-9B3C-4DCD-B69E-67F615CE01E9") is not locked or not approved. Then there's another place can explain this:

<sites>

...

<site name="login" virtualFolder="/sitecore/login" physicalFolder="/sitecore/login" enableAnalytics="false" database="core" domain="custom" disableXmlControls="true" />

...

Resolution:

The default domain has been changed, and you have to login with sitecore\admin rather than admin, or change domain back to sitecore.

Issue:

For my work, I have to deal a lot of older Sitecore versions. In Sitecore 803, it needs MongoDB 2.6 according to the compatibility table. When I install MongoDB 2.6.4, an error popup: 

Investigation:

As read https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-19086, some OpenSSL DLL files are missing from MongoDB 2.6.4 download, and it causes the problem to install on Windows 10. 

Resolution:

You can either download OpenSSL and find the missing DDL files there as suggested in the article. I just have it upload here

mongo-install-missing-openssl-libs.zip (944.23 kb) (SHA1: 050967C31CE3B728038003814F43883BC2108E68)

Cheers!