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The Advanced Settings dialog (Ribbon → Settings → Advanced) allows power user to configure SIM to fulfill one’s needs in more flexible way rather than regular settings. Some settings are applied only after application restart.
Note, changing these settings may lead to instability and app crash, so please do it only if you understand how to troubleshoot possible issues.
Indicates what browser should be used for opening Sitecore Client interfaces of Sitecore instances in. The empty value will make it use the one configured in the operating system defaults.
Default value: <empty>
Sample values: chrome, iexplore, firefox
Indicates what browser should be used for opening front-end pages of Sitecore instances in. The empty value will make it use the one configured in the operating system defaults.
Default value: <empty>
Sample values: chrome, iexplore, firefox
The setting value defines pipe-separated list of network share address that store Sitecore installation packages. If set then in Download Sitecore Versions Wizard it will copy the files from this location instead of dev.sitecore.net if manages to find the appropriate file there.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: \\myserver\Installs\Sitecores\Sitecore 7.1|\\myserver\Installs\Sitecores\Sitecore 7.2
The setting value defines maximum amount of parallel downloading threads that are used for downloading Sitecore versions from dev.sitecore.net.
Default value: 4
The setting value defines the timeout in hours for the whole set of files downloaded from dev.sitecore.net.
Default value: 24
The setting value defines exact amount of parallel downloading threads that are used for downloading single Sitecore distributive file from DEV.sitecore.net. This means that one 240MB file will be split into 4 (default) chunks of 60MB which are downloaded concurrently which may result into 4 times faster.
Default value: 4
The setting value defines the application pool mode that is selected by default in Install Sitecore Instance Wizard.
Default value: <empty>
The pipe-separated list defines of the custom packages are selected by default when configuring Sitecore instance installation.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: Support Metro Desktop-1.3.zip|Visual Studio 2012 Website Project.zip
The setting value defines the framework version that is selected by default in Install Sitecore Instance Wizard.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: v4.0 32bit
The setting value defines the product name that is selected by default in Install Sitecore Instance Wizard.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: Sitecore Jetstream
The setting value defines the product version that is selected by default in Install Sitecore Instance Wizard.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: 6.6.0
The setting value defines the product revision that is selected by default in Install Sitecore Instance Wizard.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: 130529
The setting value defines MongoDB connection string to be used for installing new Sitecore instances.
Default value: mongodb://localhost:27017/
Sample value: mongodb://mongoserver:27025/
The setting value defines the logical drive letter where temp folder for export pipeline is used. Empty value means same drive as the source site is located.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: D:\
The setting value defines the folder where temp folder for install pipeline is used. Empty value means drive root where the target is being installed to.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: D:\
If the setting value is 'true' then it allows instance installation to any folder because otherwise the program will install Sitecore instances only within the Default Root Folder setting value specified in the Settings dialog.
Default value: False
If the setting value is 'false' then when installing Sitecore the Website\sitecore\shell\RadControls folder will not be extracted from the package. This folder contains a lot of unused Rich Text Editor files and takes up to 50% time of Sitecore installation.
Default value: False
If the setting value is 'false' then when installing Sitecore the Website\sitecore\shell\controls\Rich Text Editor\dictionaries folder will not be extracted from the package. This folder contains Rich Text Editor spellcheck dictionaries and is not necessary in development installation.
Default value: False
The advanced setting controls the <setting name="RequestErrors.UseServerSideRedirect" /> Sitecore setting value while installation.
Default value: True
The setting value defines a mail server address and port which should be used in Sitecore while installation.
Default value: ``
Sample value: localhost
Sample value: localhost:25
The setting value defines a mail server credentials which should be used in Sitecore while installation. This option works only with the Core/Install/MailServer/Address setting filled in.
Default value: ``
Sample value: admin:b
If the setting value is 'false' then when deleting or reinstalling Sitecore instance, the MongoDB databases will not be deleted.
Default value: True
If the setting value is 'true' then it allows searching Sitecore instances without pressing Enter in the search box.
Default value: True
If the automatic search is enabled, it indicates a timeout in milliseconds that is used to delay searching after pressing the last key.
Default value: 300
The setting value defines the page that user will be redirected to after successful logging in.
Default value: /sitecore
The setting value defines the user account that user will be logging in.
Default value: sitecore\admin
If the setting is True then Preheat feature will be enabled.
Default value: True
Allows setting pattern that will be used for the root folder name during the instance installation progress. You can use the following variables: {ShortName}, {Name}, {Version}, {ShortVersion}, {Revision}.
Default value: {ShortName}{ShortVersion}rev{Revision}
If the setting value is 'true' then it allows performing the only one operation (dialog or wizard) in the moment, otherwise you can performing several different operations in parallel.
Default value: True
Allows setting custom application for editing configuration files.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: notepad.exe
Allows setting custom application for viewing current log file.
Default value: <empty>
Sample value: notepad.exe
The handler for instance double click in Main Window instances list. The list of all available handlers can be found in the App.xml file.
Default value: SIM.Tool.Windows.MainWindowComponents.BrowseFrontendButton, SIM.Tool.Windows
Sample value: SIM.Tool.Windows.MainWindowComponents.LoginAdminButton, SIM.Tool.Windows
The setting value defines initial main window width; setting value to -1 disables this setting.
Default value: -1
Allows setting windows identity used by instance application pool. Allowed values: LocalSystem, LocalService, NetworkService, ApplicationPoolIdentity or any custom NTAccount.
Default value: NetworkService
When custom NTAccount is used in the Core/Install/WebServer/Identity setting, this setting must be filled in with custom NTAccount's password.
Default value: ``
If the setting value is 'true' then it allows instance detection among all IIS sites because otherwise the program will list Sitecore instances only within the Default Root Folder setting value specified in the Settings dialog.
Default value: False
The setting value defines a URL to the manifests.zip archive file with updated information about Sitecore products.
Default value: http://dl.sitecore.net/updater/1.1/sim/manifests.zip
If the setting value is True then manifest update will be performed when application is closing, otherwise update will not be performed.
Default value: True
Allows setting a pattern used for IIS Site name and hostname when new instance is being installed. You can use the following variables: {ShortName}, {Name}, {Version}, {ShortVersion}, and {Revision}.
Default value: {ShortName}{ShortVersion}rev{Revision}
The setting value defines a pattern used against files in Local Repository folder when detecting Sitecore products.
Default value: <empty>
Allows setting connection timeout for SQL Server management connection i.e. that is used for detecting, deleting and maintaining already existing instances and installing new ones.
Default value: 1
Allows setting pattern that will be used for instance installing when databases are attached to the SQL Server
Default value: {InstanceName}{ProductName}_{DatabaseRole}
Allows setting execution timeout for SQL Server management connection i.e. that is used for detecting, deleting and maintaining already existing instances and installing new ones.
Default value: 180
Allows setting identity that is used by SQL Server engine.
Default value: NETWORK SERVICE
Allows setting remote database server network name, read more http://alienlab.co.uk/sitecore-instance-manager/issue/54.
Default value: <empty>
Allows setting remote database server folder name, read more http://alienlab.co.uk/sitecore-instance-manager/issue/54.
Default value: <empty>
The setting value defines the size in KB for single file downloaded from dev.sitecore.net.
Default value: 4096
The setting value defines the timeout in minutes for single file downloaded from dev.sitecore.net.
Default value: 120
The setting value defines the timeout in milliseconds for request connection set up.
Default value: 100000
The setting value defines default set of namespaces used by Linqpad when executing queries.
Default value: Sitecore|Sitecore.Configuration|Sitecore.Data|Sitecore.Data.Items|Sitecore.Diagnostics|Sitecore.ContentSearch|Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq
If the setting value is 'True' then application isn’t shown in taskbar when shown – only in tray.
Default value: False
When the setting value is 'true' and main window gets collapsed or closed then it hides into tray instead.
Default value: True
The setting value defines the suffix that is added to the instance URL, which will be opened in browser. The resulting URL value is http[s]://<instance-name>/[UrlSuffix].
Default value: <empty>
Sample values: /sitecore/admin, /sitecore/admin
When the setting value is 'true' then clicking instance in tray menu causes back-end browser open link.
Default value: False