As announced on the official Commerce Server team blog yesterday – see http://tinyurl.com/yljcfwf for details or just follow http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/  – SharePoint 2010 support will be coming to Commerce Server 2009 this summer. This is obviously a very hot topic – as I have seen a lot of folks trying to get this to work today... Continue Reading →

A few questions have come up about how can you do negative discounts. (For the record, a negative discount would increase a price. e.g. - If you qualify, raise the price of Item X by 10%.) The net is that Commerce Server doesn't really support this. The better ways to accomplish this are: Set all... Continue Reading →

As a few people have unfortunately discovered, those still running Site Server-era code on Commerce Server 2002 discovered that ShopperID cookie is set to expire on January 1, 2010. Whoops! This can be worked around by manually setting an expiration date on the ShopperManager object. Or the code can be migrated to AuthManager and not... Continue Reading →

All internal testing has now completed - and we can gladly state that BizTalk Server 2009 works with Commerce Server, without issues or any special black magic required. This applies to both Commerce Server 2007 SP2 and Commerce Server 2009. Hope this helps!

A question got asked to me today about how to migrate data from Commerce Server 2002. It was obvious from reading it, that at least one person doesn't know that there is a data migration tool. It will take data from all versions prior, specifically: Commerce Server 2000 Commerce Server 2002 Commerce Server 2002 FP1... Continue Reading →

Recently, we have launched the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Commerce Server 2009 Code Name "R2" - which is the next version of Commerce Server. This is highlighted in the team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/archive/2009/06/22/the-next-version-of-commerce-server-codename-r2-is-on-its-way.aspx - where you can get the full details. If you sign up, you will get: One-on-One briefing Early access to next-generation... Continue Reading →

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…there used to be a solution offering called the Microsoft Solution for Internet Business (MSIB). The MSIB solution integrated Commerce Server 2000 and 2002, Content Management Server 2001 and 2001, and SharePoint 2001 into a single Internet-facing site for customer deployment. This solution unfortunately became somewhat... Continue Reading →

A colleague asked me the other day – if I have a CS2007 site and don’t feel like changing it (much) at the moment, what’s in it for me to upgrade to Commerce Server 2009? A very good question indeed – I thought… First, Commerce Server 2009 does not break any compatibility with Commerce Server... Continue Reading →

Life has been busy. Busy working on the next version of Commerce Server, that is. A few weeks back we posted the June CTP of CS2009 code name “R2”. This is the first CTP of the next version of Commerce Server, which will be available by 1st Quarter 2010. Some key changes in this CTP... Continue Reading →

New Links from Microsoft: https://connect.microsoft.com/Survey/Survey.aspx?SurveyID=8674&SiteID=643 - The Connect Feedback site and June Evaluation VPC http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/en/us/downloads.aspx – The authoritative download page for all things Commerce Server from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/en/us/try-video.aspx – The authoritative source of videos on Commerce Server from Microsoft. Some New Blogs to Follow: Kelly Andrew Heard @ http://blog.kellyheard.com/ Dominic Citino @ http://blogs.msdn.com/domc/ Jeff Lynch... Continue Reading →