MCMS ships with a nice comparison feature for revisions. But there is nothing available to compare to different postings! Chester has spent some time to analyze how MCMS does the revision history comparison and managed to get the CompareHTML.dll shipped with MCMS and used for revision history comparision working in his implementation to compare different […]
Now after Arpan posted his Top 10 favorite features for next version of SharePoint and MCMS Lawrence Liu has posted his favorite list: A “Global” Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides modularity for “additive” templates OOB document review/approval workflow with support for digital signatures Integration with Outlook […]
Sometimes – especially when a large site update is required MCMS customers decide to use database copy rather than using Site Deployment to move the changes to the production machine. That is a valid way to do this but some things need to be considered when doing this step: Users assigned to rights groups might need […]
Arpan Shah, Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has provided a nice list of his personal top 10 features in the next version: There’s a lot of great buzz in the community as well as Microsoft around the next version of Windows SharePoint Services and Office “12” servers. The amount of investment that’s going into […]
Lawrence Liu has attended the Office “12” Curriculum Design Summit which I was also invited to but couldn’t attend. Here are here impressions one the new product: I spent the past day and a half participating in an Office “12” Curriculum Design Summit, during which about 20 of our “Insiders” (Technology Specialists and Consultants) from […]
[Via Mei Ying] Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is now available as an eBook. Get the bundle now from directly from Packt Publishing @ http://www.packtpub.com/mcms/book and enjoy a discount of 10% of the book and 80% off the eBook.
Arpan talks about confusion for packaging and licensing of Office 12:http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/09/18/471088.aspx
Office 12 will have API completeness. So with next version of CMS the times that a tool like Site Manager is required to manually create resource galleries, create custom channel properties, maintain rights groups or to manually assign rights to containers will be gone! Means all and everything can be scripted! So no longer a […]
As Mark pointed out, all PDC slide decks are now online. Especiall interesting for all MCMS customers would be the following slide deck from Microsoft Lead Program Manager for Content Management Server Ryan Stocker: OFF313 Web Content Management Application Development and Engine Extensibility OFF313_Stocker.ppt And here is a link to another related sessions: OFF308 […]
This week I received two questions on confusion caused by the fact that the difference between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode was not clear. CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode – Publishing Mode This mode reflects the current Publishing Mode of MCMS. So this mode indicates if the API will currently see the published or the unpublished version of the posting and […]
Todd has listed a couple of must have hotfixes for .NET framework 1.1 which should be applied to almost every web server running ASP.NET 1.1! http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2005/08/23/455116.aspx
Ok, finally some official information next version of MCMS has been officially anounced and presented at PDC. Here is a short summary of everything that has been anounced so far: Next version of MCMS will be build on top of WSS in Office 12 ASP.NET 2.0 features like Masterpages will be leveraged Plugable Membership and Role providers allow […]
