Whitepaper document updated
Short note: the list of whitepapers and other resourses has been updated today.
Short note: the list of whitepapers and other resourses has been updated today.
[via Business Web Software] InfoPath is a component of Microsoft Office that enables users to design and fill out electronic forms using the InfoPath client. InfoPath integrates with the other components of the Microsoft Office System and allows users to collect, process and share data within the Office environment. With the introduction of the InfoPath […]
Every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it’s own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. If you go and simply add the MCMS website as content source to a search engine you will experience a couple of […]
In some companies users are not allowed to download and execute ActiveX controls from a web server. As the HtmlPlaceholderControl edit component consists of an ActiveX control this can cause significant problems as special permissions would have to be given to these users to let them work against MCMS. An alternative to this would be […]
Did you ever have the problem that you needed to quickly update a MCMS template definition on a production server or on a staging server where Visual Studio .NET was not installed? Or are you creating ASP based sites using MCMS 2002 and don’t like the idea to have a need to install VS.NET just […]
An often requested feature for MCMS is to have the ability to use a custom autheticaton provider like Passport, AD/AM, LDAP or just a table in a SQL database. Although MCMS requires to have NT/AD accounts to be used for authorization it is indeed possible to use any 3rd party authentication provider you like for […]
As an author for an MCMS web site you might have experienced the problem that you first have to save a posting before you get the chance to update it’s properties. Means first fill in the content into the placeholders, then save it and finally modify the properties (e.g. start date, expiration date) and custom […]
I want to let you know that Mei Ying, Angus Logan, Andrew Connell, Joel Ward and myself are currently writing on a second MCMS book. It will focus on more advanced topics which didn’t make it into the first book. Here is a short overview of the topics that will be covered in the new […]
If you have worked with MCMS for a while your database will fill up with template, postings, resources, channels, template galleries and resource galleries. When trying to create a new posting you will notice that it is not easy to locate the template gallery in the tree view control. And when opening the template gallery you […]
Ever thought about implementing an RSS feed for your MCMS web site? Here is an article outlining how to implement this: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/04/107235.aspx
Today I started my MCMS tip of the day series. Every day – or at least every day I have time – I will show a tip for MCMS for various categories. Some of them will be new, some of them will just point to an existing article and will be a little bit like […]
Since today Andrew Connell is a new MVP for Microsoft Content Management Server. He really deserves it as he has provided help to many customers in the public newsgroup for MCMS. I assume he will shortly be listed on the official site for MCMS MVP to join Mei Ying, Spencer, Joel and Angus! Andrew: congratulation […]