Someone asked me for resources on how to harden a Commerce Server deployment. The best starting point is: Deployment - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd464584.aspx Securing a Deployment - can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd442366.aspx Hope this helps!

I was sent several questions about Virtual Catalogs over this last month. So here are the answers... Q: My understanding is that items and categories are including in a Virtual Catalog by creating INCLUSION RULES.  Is there a limit to the number of INCLUSION RULES that I can create? A: No. Though, practically speaking, there... Continue Reading →

I am super-excited to announce that today we have shipped: Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147778 Commerce Server 2009 Inline Product Property Editor: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147779 A new white paper "Localizing Your Commerce Server 2009 Site using Site Variations": http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147752 The Template Pack provides a styled HTML skin over and above the "white label" default site shipped... Continue Reading →

As of this week, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is now available for free. You can download it from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx. This will be a great tool for use in editing the pages in the Default Site in Commerce Server 2009 - or any other supporting file (e.g. - Resource File) or page created in SharePoint Commerce... Continue Reading →

The question keeps coming up about whether or not there is a Commerce Server certification. As of right now, there is not - nor are there any definitive plans to offer this through the typical Microsoft Training and Certification channels now or in the future. Given the size of the customer base of Commerce Server... Continue Reading →

When we shipped Commerce Server 2007, we began supporting ASP.NET Authentication for SQL Authentication and ADFS for Windows Authentication. In fact, this became the preferred and directed method to handle site authentication for Commerce Server. The legacy ISAPI authentication filter was maintained for backward compatibility, but was marked as deprecated. This story did not change... Continue Reading →