A question that has arisen several times in recent weeks is what is required from Commerce Server from a PCI/CISP compliance perspective. The short answer is that Commerce Server falls above the stack required for PCI/CISP compliance. The certification is required for infrastructure level components. Because Commerce Server is software, it would fall into Payment... Continue Reading →

Several questions have come up from various sources regarding Content Management in Commerce Server 2006 (and as a sub-topic, SharePoint integration). I figured now would be a good time to answer these - but be forewarned that it is a long post... Back several years ago we had MSIB - which provided better documentation for... Continue Reading →

Last week we had the official press release regarding the CS2006 Beta and announced our public release date (July 2006). It is at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-20CS06BetaPR.mspx. We have gotten quite a few good follow-up articles, including: Going Global: Globalization Moves Up Microsoft Feature ListCXO Today: Microsoft's Nex-Gen Commerce Server TechnologyBetaNews: MS Issues Commerce Server 2006 BetaVNunet: Microsoft... Continue Reading →

Alan Faulkner, who is one of the testers on the CS Team, has joined the world of blogging. http://blogs.msdn.com/akfaulkner/default.aspx is his site. Definitely check it out if you are interested in BizTalk and Commerce integration.