Editing Sitecore Azure ARM Templates - Part 2 - Building the WebDeploy package

ConnectionStrings.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<connectionStrings>
  <!-- 
    Sitecore connection strings.
    All database connections for Sitecore are configured here.
  -->
  <add name="core" connectionString="user id=user;password=password;Data Source=(server);Database=Sitecore_Core"/>
  <add name="web" connectionString="user id=user;password=password;Data Source=(server);Database=Sitecore_Web"/>
  <add name="analytics" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/Sitecore_analytics"/>
  <add name="tracking.live" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/Sitecore_tracking_live"/>
  <add name="tracking.contact" connectionString="mongodb://localhost/Sitecore_tracking_contact"/>
  <add name="cloud.search" connectionString=""/>
  <add name="appinsights.instrumentationkey" connectionString=""/>
  <add name="mongo.sessions" connectionString=""/>
</connectionStrings>

mongo.config

<parameter name="Mongo Connection String" description="Mongo Connection string to enter into config" tags="Hidden,NoStore">
  <parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="App_Config\\ConnectionStrings\.config$" match="//connectionStrings/add[@name='mongo.sessions']/@connectionString" />
</parameter>

redis.config

<parameter name="Redis Connection String" description="Redis Connection string to enter into config" tags="Hidden,NoStore">
  <parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="App_Config\\ConnectionStrings\.config$" match="//connectionStrings/add[@name='redis.sessions']/@connectionString" />
</parameter>

Sitecore.Analytics.Tracking.config

<sharedSessionState defaultProvider="mongo">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="InProc" type="System.Web.SessionState.InProcSessionStateStore"/>
    <add name="redis" type="Sitecore.SessionProvider.Redis.RedisSessionStateProvider" connectionString="redis.sessions" applicationName="shared" operationTimeoutInMilliseconds="5000" pollingInterval="30"/>
    <add name="mongo" type="Sitecore.SessionProvider.MongoDB.MongoSessionStateProvider, Sitecore.SessionProvider.MongoDB" connectionStringName="session" pollingInterval="2" compression="true" sessionType="shared"/>
  </providers>
  ..... 
  .....
</sharedSessionState>

web.config

<sessionState mode="Custom" cookieless="false" timeout="20" sessionIDManagerType="Sitecore.SessionManagement.ConditionalSessionIdManager" customProvider="mongo">
    <providers>
        <add name="mongo" type="Sitecore.SessionProvider.MongoDB.MongoSessionStateProvider, Sitecore.SessionProvider.MongoDB" sessionType="private" connectionStringName="session" pollingInterval="2" compression="true"/>
        <add name="mssql" type="Sitecore.SessionProvider.Sql.SqlSessionStateProvider, Sitecore.SessionProvider.Sql" sessionType="Standard" connectionStringName="session" pollingInterval="2" compression="true"/>
        <add name="redis" type="Sitecore.SessionProvider.Redis.RedisSessionStateProvider, Sitecore.SessionProvider.Redis" applicationName="private" connectionString="redis.sessions" pollingInterval="2"/>
    </providers>
</sessionState>