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Email Experience Manager (EXM) To engage with customers in the website, we can deliver the relevant email messages to the customers at the right time. The Email Experience Manager (EXM) helps you create and deliver bulk email campaigns quickly and easily. The email campaign builder has four tabs each of which represents a step in the process. General On the General tab, you specify the campaign name and description along with the sender's details. Recipients On the Recipients tab, you add lists or segmented lists that you have created in the List Manager. You can also add a list of recipients that have been saved to a file. Message On the Message tab, you define the elements of the email message and this tab contains some important controls. Delivery On the Delivery tab, you have the choice to select the message variant and specify options and schedule.

You can use the secure Azure Redis cache to configure a shared or private session state for your Sitecore solution. A shared session state database - shares data across multiple sessions. For example, the Redis cache collects data related to contacts and devices, and saves the information to the session state database. Deploy a shared session database To deploy a Redis session database: Choose between Azure Redis or Redis on premise. You can provision Azure Redis by using the instructions on the Microsoft Azure website or with Azure PowerShell. Go to the <sitename>\Website\App_Config folder, open the ConnectionStrings.config file, and add the following connection string:                     <add name="sharedSession" connectionString="_host_:_port_number _" /> Configure the connection string so that it points to your session database. Save your changes. Configure Sitecore To configure Sitecore to instead use the sha...

The HTML cache is an output cache that caches renderings, not whole pages. You use the HTML cache to improve the performance and response time of the websites. To enable the HTML output cache: Patch the site specification of predefined sites in the sites node of the \App_Config\Sitecore.config\App_Config\Sitecore\CMS.Core\Sitecore.Sites.config file and set the cacheHtml property of sites to true to enable the HTML output cache for that site. Add caching options to the renderings Sitecore caches output for. You can do this in two ways: Locally by specifying the options every time you use a rendering. To do this, open the item in the Content Editor, and on the Presentation tab, click Details , and then click the rendering you want to set options for. Globally by specifying the options in the definition item of the rendering. This is then the default setting for all uses of this rendering. To do this, open the rendering definition item in the sitecore/Layout/Renderings part of the conten...