Launchpad button disappear from Sitecore

One of my colleague working on Sitecore desktop instance and he called me for help that his Launchpad icon is just disappear.

If you login to Sitecore desktop, normally Launchpad icon looks as highlighted with yellow box below 

With Launchpad Icon

However, on my colleague system, Launchpad icon was missing as 

Without Launchpad Icon

 

Due to this he can’t choose any of the options like control panel or desktop.

Solution: 

Just logged-out and login again. You will get your Launchpad button again. 

This trick worked for him. But I suppose this is temporary solution. I was unable to reproduce it on my system so unable to figure out the exact cause. 

Let me know if anyone knows the root cause and its permanent solution.

Sitecore Hosting Environment Configuration Table

In every Sitecore project, hosting environment set up is very important stage. One need to choose right hosting server configuration so that Sitecore website run smoothly.

Refer below table as a quick reference for Sitecore hosting environment configuration detail

Sitecore Hosting Environment Configuration Table
Specification	CM/CD Web Server	CM/CD Database Server	Session State Server
OS	Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit	Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit	Windows Server 2008 R2/2012/2012R2 – 64bit
CPU	4 x CPU E5 2650 v2	Dual Quad Core Processors	Dual Quad Core Processors
Memory	16 GB RAM	16 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Disk Space	250 GB HDD Disk	250 GB disk for data files 250 GB disk for log files	250 GB disk for data files 250 GB disk for log files
IIS Version	IIS 7.x or greater – 64bit
App Pool Mode	Integrated Mode - Integrated ‘Load User Profile’ should be set to true.	NA	NA
SQL Version	NA	SQL Server 2008 R2/2012/2014- 64bit	SQL Server 2008 R2/2012/2014- 64bit
Dedicated Server/cluster	YES	YES	YES

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