Check the technical requirements, then install or upgrade AEM - fully integrated into your environment.

AEM can be configured in a variety of ways to provide integration, scalability, and high-availability.

To ensure smooth operation you should perform regular maintenance and updates, monitor normal operations and adjust your installation to changing circumstances.

• Basic concepts for deployment:
  AEM instances, dispatcher
• Installing Author & Publish instances
• Upgrading from earlier versions
• Technical requirements
• Starting and stopping AEM
• Accessing CRX, CQSE and the Web Console
• Persistence Managers & Databases
• Deploying with an application server
• Running as Windows Service
• Changing port numbers
• Checklists
• Troubleshooting

• Configuration Overview
  
• Changing default passwords
• Configuring the Default UI (Touch-Optimized or Classic)
  
• OSGi Configuration Settings
• Configuring OSGi
• Configuring Run Modes
  
• Configuring Version Purging
• Configuring LDAP
• Enabling HTTP over SSL
• Configuring Single Sign On
• Optimizing Performance
• AEM Application Clustering
• Dispatcher
• Replication Agents
• AEM as Portlet inside a Portal
• Resource Mapping
• Configuration Checklist
• Configuring the Welcome Console
• Configuring AEM LiveCycle Connector

• Regular maintenance 
• Performance monitoring
• Working with Logs
• Making a backup of the software
• Backing up your repository
• Monitoring your replication agents
• Monitoring Diskspace and Memory Usage
• The Web Console
  

• Managing your AEM projects
• Planning your AEM deployment
• Typical phases of a AEM project

• Building up your knowledge of AEM
• Checklists
• Hardware Sizing Guildlines

• Types of tests
• Testing and Tracking Tools
• Acceptance and Sign-Off

Adobe has introduced a touch-optimized UI with responsive design for the author environment. This differs considerably from the original classic UI as it is designed to operate on both mobile and desktop devices.

The touch-optimized UI brings a new look and feel to the consoles. The basic handling has also been updated.

The touch optimized UI integrates new concepts and technologies with the existing methodologies.

• Introduction and Concepts
• Structure of the AEM Touch-Optimized UI
• Technology Stack
• Granite
• Granite UI
• Coral UI

• Consoles
• Basic Handling
• Managing Pages
• Editing Pages (same as classic UI)
  
• Search and Filter
• Managing and Editing DAM Assets
  

• Configuring the Default UI - Touch-Optimized or Classic
  
• Granite - Foundation Components
• Granite - Foundation Admin Components
• Granite - Vocabulary
• Granite - Datasource
  

• Introducing workflows
• Workflows at design time and run time
• The workflow console

• Creating a workflow model
• Collecting data using forms and workflows (tutorial)

• Starting workflows using the console, Sidekick, and node change events
• Using workflow packages for batch processing
• Participating in workflows

• Authorization Needed for working with workflows
• Configuring access to workflows
• Administering workflow instances

• Developing workflow steps
• Interacting with workflows programmatically 
• Workflow REST API reference

• Workflow steps
• Built-in Processes for Process Steps
• DAM Media Handlers

The eCommerce integration framework has been built to allow you to easily integrate eCommerce systems with AEM. This allows you to connect with a purpose built eCommerce system to control product data, shopping carts, checkout and order fulfillment, while AEM controls the data display and marketing campaigns.

A standalone, AEM native eCommerce implementation of the API. This can be used to control product data, shopping carts and checkout in conjunction with the existing data display and marketing campaigns. In this case the product database is stored in CRX (Adobe's implementation of JCR).

The eCommerce integration framework has been built to allow you to easily integrate eCommerce systems with AEM. A reference site has already been implemented using hybris.

• eCommerce Integration Framework
• API Documentation
• Additional Points To Note
• Scaling eCommerce

• Concepts of AEM native eCommerce
• Deploying AEM native eCommerce
• Developing for AEM native eCommerce

• Concepts of eCommerce with hybris
• Deploying eCommerce with hybris
• Developing eCommerce with hybris

Provides detailed information and procedures for the efficient handling of content, including replicating, tagging, using content tools, and importing/exporting content.

Covers how to manage users and groups in order to provide them with the appropriate rights necessary to perform various functions.

The Adobe Marketing Cloud includes powerful web analytics and website optimization products that deliver actionable, real-time data and insights to drive successful online initiatives. It offers an integrated and open platform for online business optimization.

• Using the Bulk Editor
• Importing blog posts
  
• Importing calendar Events
  
• Subscribing to Calendars
  
• Handling Content Packages
• Importing documents generated offline
• Exporting content and creating backups
• Exporting a Page
• Validating external links
• Configuring automatic emails for account activities
• Tagging
• Replication and Replication Agents
• Replication from Author to Publish
• Replication from Publish to Author
• The Client Context
• Configuring the Rich Text Editor
• AEM Portals and Portlets
• Setting up Email Notifications
• Connecting to a FAST Search Engine
• Configuring Undo for Page Editing
• Configuring ExactTarget in AEM
• Track Content Changes Using Task Management
• Producing Accessible Sites and Applications

• Authentication and Authorization
• Accessing user and group management (Security Console)
• Default users and groups
• Creating users and groups
• Deleting users and groups
• Changing user passwords
• Permissions and Privileges
• Page access permissions
• Actions and Access Control Lists
• Replication privileges
• Impersonating another user
• Best practices
• Closed User Groups

• Integrating with Adobe SiteCatalyst
• Integrating with Adobe Search&Promote
  
• Integrating with Adobe Test&Target
  
• Integrating with Adobe Scene7

The social communities tools offer extended user profiles, blogs, and calendars that are fully integrated into the Web Content Management platform.

Personalization provides your users with a customized environment that displays dynamic content selected according to their specific needs.

Multi-Site Management handles multilingual and multinational content, helping your company balance centralized branding with localized content.

• Introduction to Social Communities
  
• Administering Social Communities
• Developing with Social Communities

• What is Personalization?
• Strengths and points to consider
• Personalization and Access
• Components available for Personalization
• Personalization and Social Communities

• Use cases for multi-site management
• Managing different language versions of a website
• Managing the translation of your language branches
• What are blueprints and live copies?
• Creating a live copy
• Synchronizing a blueprint and live copy
• Rolling out changes
• Live copy status at page and at paragraph level
• Managing blueprints and live copies
• Moving blueprint and live copy pages

Analytics form the basis for gaining insights into how your website is being used by visitors and therefore, how it is serving your business.

As all information is already resident within the repository, many reports can be generated. Default reports are provided, customized reports can easily be developed.

• Segmentation
• External Providers

• Component Report
  
• Disk Usage
  
• Health Check
  
• Page Activity Report
  
• User Generated Content Report
  
• User Report
  
• Workflow Instance Report
  
• Workflow Report
• Report Customization
• Using Reports in a Publish Environment
• Using Dashboards
  

Build your first components in 10 minutes
Getting acquainted with AEM-based development.

Developer Guidelines and Best Practices
Ensure your implementation is robust and maintainable.

Development tools
Choosing and setting up your development environment with CRXDE Lite, Eclipse or IntelliJ.

Data Modelling
How to model content in a content repository.

Website and Web application development
Building a new project, inheriting, reusing and extending existing functionality.

• Prerequisites for developing
  
• Java Content Repository
• CRX and Jackrabbit
• Sling Request Processing
• Templates
• Components
• Bundles and the OSGi framework
• Development Objects in AEM
  
• The structure within the repository
• Authentication and Authorization
• Publish and Author environments
• The Dispatcher
• FileVault
• Workflows
• Multi-Site Management
• Keyboard Shortcuts

• Widgets
• Developing and Customizing the Bulk Editor
• Developing Workflows
• DAM Media Handlers
• Customizing and Extending DAM
• The Client Context in Detail
• Forms
• Customizing Pages shown by the Error Handler
• Extending Analytics
• Extending Mobile
• Tagging for Developers
• Developing Reports
• Adding Fonts for Graphic-Rendering
• Defining Styles for a Text Image Component
  
• Using Sling Adapters
• Externalizing URLs
• Customizing the Websites Administration Console
• Cloud Service Configurations
• DAM Proxy and Proxy Workers
• Integrating Services with the JMX Console
• Connecting to SQL Databases
• AEM Translator
• Obtaining Page Information in JSON Format
• Producing Accessible Sites and Applications

• CQ Tag libraries
• CQ Server API
• CQ Widget API
• CQ Java API Reference
• Sling API
• Sling docs
• Sling wiki
• Sling cheatsheet
• CRX API
• Jackrabbit API
• Jackrabbit docs
• Jackrabbit wiki
• OSGi™ Service Platform API
• Felix docs
• Felix wiki
• JCR 1.0 API spec (JSR-170)
• JCR 1.0 API
• JCR 2.0 API spec (JSR-283)
• JCR 2.0 API
  

Looks at the various tools, from both Adobe and third parties, available to configure an optimal development environment.

Learn about developing components, which form the essential building blocks for content input with AEM.

What you need to know about templates. These allow you to define default page layouts and functionality.

• CRXDE Lite
  
• FileVault Tool
• Content Package Maven Plugin
• Eclipse
• IntelliJ
• WebDAV
• Site Importer
• Dialog Editor

• What are Components?
• Default Components
• How Components are structured
• Developing Components
• Scripts
• Using Client-Side HTML Libraries
• A closer look at a few of the Foundation Components
• Further development of specific Components and Tools
• Using Components as Boilerplates
• Developing with Social Communities
• Developing for Media Publisher

• What are Templates?
• Default Templates
• How Templates are structured
• Developing Page Templates

The design of your website is vital. The Designer simplifies the implementation.

Development techniques for mobile or multi-device web sites.

What you need to know when developing your own Multi-Site Management solution.

• Using the Designer
• What you need
• Considerations when designing your Website

• Responsive Design in Experience Manager
• Extending Mobile
• Creating Device Group Filters
• Integrating PhoneGap into Your Mobile Applications

• MSM in the repository
• Extending MSM Functionality

• Before You Start
• Types of Tests
• Getting Started
• Checklists

• Which Test Environments will you need
• Defining your Test Cases
• Testing - what, when and with whom
• Compiling your Test Plan
• Tools

• Tracking Results and Providing Feedback
• Acceptance and Sign-Off
• The next release...
• Testing with the Tough Day test

Defining the following phases and milestones will help simplify the implementation of a typical AEM project.

Defining quantitative measurements for the quality of your website will help ensure you fulfill your goals.

The following sources of information are listed to provide you with background information in various areas.

• Project Kick-Off
• Concept and Planning
• Technical Specification and Design
• Development and Testing
• Deployment and Training

• Why set Target Metrics?
• Project Design
• Infrastructure
• Performance
• Concurrency
• Capacity and Volume
• Other Metrics

• Hardware Sizing Guidelines
• Reference Architecture
• Overview of Potential Tools
• Checklists
• Examples of Task Breakdown
• Examples of Project Documentation
• Capacity Guide
  
• DAM Capacity Guide
• DAM Benchmark Guide

• Exploring AEM
  
• Deploying AEM
• CQ Cloud Manager
• Authoring Websites in AEM WCM
• Working with Digital Assets in AEM DAM
• Using AEM eCommerce
• Administering AEM
• Developing on AEM
• Testing AEM Projects
• Managing AEM Projects

• Overview
• Using CQ Cloud Manager
• Top issues and FAQ
• Other useful resources

• Exploring CRX
  
• Deploying CRX
• Using CRX
• Administering CRX
• Developing on CRX
• JCR Connectors and Adapters

AEM provides a complete suite of applications that enable organizations to optimize their online communications. All release documentation, including legacy documentation, is available.

CRX is a commercially packaged version of the Apache Jackrabbit and Sling open source projects and a powerful web application development solution. Find release documentation here.

All Adobe JCR Connectors expose content via the standard JCR interface, enabling applications to access content that resides in a proprietary repository in a standardized manner.

• AEM 5.6 (current release)
• CQ 5.5
• CQ 5.4
• CQ 5.3
• CQ 5.2
• CQ 5.2 addendum
• CQ 5.0 - 5.1
• Communiqué 4 (4.0 - 4.2)
• Communiqué 3 (3.0 - 3.5.6)
• Communiqué 2 (2.0 - 2.6)

• CRX 2.3 (current release)
• CRX 2.2
• CRX 2.1
• CRX 2.0 (embedded in CQ 5.3)
• CRX 1.4.x
  
• CRX 1.4
• CRX 1.3
• CRX 1.2
• CRX 1.1
• CRX 1.0

• MS Sharepoint Connector
• EMC Documentum Connector
• OpenText LiveLink Connector
• Database Connector
• Vignette Connector
• Interwoven Connector
• FileNet P8 Connector
• IBM Lotus Notes Domino Connector
• Fast to JCR Adapter

Adobe Experience Manager is a core product of the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Adobe Experience Manager Standard edition extends the functionality available. It includes digital asset management and has more capabilities than Basic.

It includes everything in AEM Basic plus:

AEM can be combined with several add-on product modules. These modules enhance the performance of the infrastructure, make complex systems easier to manage and enable our products to run in specific environments.

• Advanced Content Management
  Forms, Offline Editor, WebDAV
• Adobe Marketing Cloud Integration
• Cloud Manager
• LDAP with SSO
• CIFS Support

• Digital Asset Management: AEM DAM
• AEM as a portal including personalization
• AEM in Portal – Portal Director (AEM-Portlet)
• Targeting
  
• ContentBus (Virtual Repository)

• Active Clustering
• AEM eCommerce
• Marketing Campaign Management (MCM)
• Mobile
• Multi-Site Manager (MSM)
  
• AEM Social Communities
  Forum, Blog, Wiki, Calendar

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