Some interesting questions came in regarding BizTalk interoperability. Caesar Samsi from my team was kind enough to provide the following... Q. I understand that with BizTalk 2006 and the adapters for the Profiles, Catalog, Inventory, and Orders subsystems you will be able to integrate into ERP systems such as SAP. Will this be true with... Continue Reading →
Some More Deployment Questions
Some more questions have come in that I figured I would answer: Q. Can you upgrade from Beta to RTM? A. Yes, there will be a tool to do this. Changes should be relatively minimal. Q. What should I use in lieu of Application Center? A. I answered this before, but will answer it... Continue Reading →
Answers to Some Interesting Deployment Qs
I was recently e-mailed several interesting deployment questions so thought I would answer them here.... Q. With the DB Server separate from the CS Servers, can we run CS2002 and SQL2005? A. No, you can't do that. We have not tested CS2002 to run on SQL2005. You may be able to get them to coexist... Continue Reading →
Commerce Server Newsgroups
A few folks have asked if we could post a consolidated listing of our newsgroups. So, here goes: Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.General Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.BusinessDesk Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.Catalog Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.SDK Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.DataWarehousing Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.Announcements Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.Analysis Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.Solution_Site Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.UserProfileMgt Microsoft.public.CommerceServer.Campaigns_CSF Microsoft.Beta.CS2006 Happy newsreading!
CS2002 & 64-bit, .NET 2.0, and SQL2005
A frequently asked question that has come up quite a bit lately is what is Microsoft's policy going to be on supporting .NET 2.0, SQL2005, and 64-bit Windows with CS2002. I figured this was worthy of a blog post... The short answer is that there are currently no plans to support any of these. If... Continue Reading →
(Belated) Commerce Server on Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=150551#150551 I figured I should probably finally post a link to my team's interview with Channel 9. I don't think we should give up our day jobs to go into showbusiness anytime soon, though the content is probably of interest to anyone following CS2006. In other news, "Hell Month" as I referred to January 2006... Continue Reading →