Microsoft Content Management Server
This section will contain Tips and Tricks, Talks and News about MCMS related Posts.I have worked extensively with MCMS 2002 and 2001 and like to share the issues I have faced and resolution to them.
Real exciting news from Web Content Management team at Microsoft.The Service Pack 2 now provides much awaited support for Microsoft SQL 2005 and Viusla Studio 2005 is now available in MCMS 2002.Master Pages as well as the authentication and navigation provider models support.
Here are few useful online free books listed on MSDN that will get you started with Microsoft Content Management Server before you do your own investment and buy a MCMS 2002 Book or take an official MOC Training.
Here is a Great article explaining Web publishing Content Management Systems in general. Who should be using them. What are the advantages and benefits of using a web based Content Management System and the different players offering Web based Content Management Solutions.
I get lot of queries from the Clients and from my Blog readers about the recommendation MCMS 2002 Book/Tutorial. The following book is great for Starters as well as seasoned MCMS professionals. I would highly recommend it ....
I have created a Windows App utility that can search All or Specific Portal for any particular string to be found in any of the placeholders.
Portal is determined to be the First Level Channel after /Channels root.
Recently I came across this issue with KB#836895. It installs perfectly on Windows 2003 machines but refused to install on Windows XP development machines.
Since we are using some custome paramters that needed to be passed to different MCMS posting it was hard to debug since all the development machines where Windows XP.
MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 will have the support for ASP.Net 2.0 though there will still be some New features that will not be supported or fully suported by MCMS running under ASp.Net 2.0 framework for example Web Parts ...
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 makes it easy to create multiple websites using the same template set. This feature is very useful if you are creating sites that require different feel and look but same/similar functionality or at-least share some templates between each other.The challenge here is how to add a CSS to the rendered posting so the feel and look is different depending on which MCMS Site Hierarchy you are in.
Following is the solution. This solution allows you to treat
This post will evolve with time. I wanted to share the resources that I myself use to troubleshoot the issues with MCMS deployments during my consulting assignments. I am just starting this post now but down the road I will also add step by step guide for things to check while installing and running MCMS 2002 installation in Production, Staging, Content and Development Environment. So keep visiting back to get more details.
I have seem a few Breadcrumb Controls for Microsoft Content Management System that display the Hierarchy/Path of the current Posting(page). While designing a MCMS 2002 site the site-map is laid out in such a way that the Navigation of the site is made simple and its easily accessible by the MCMS API calls.Its common to have a Hierarchy like this
/Channels/RetailerSite/en-CA/LeftNavigation/OurProducts/Computers and
/Channels/RetailerSite/en-CA/LeftNavigation/ThirdPartyProducts/WebCams.
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