Category: Work
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A Bit About the CS2009 “R2” June CTP
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…
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Some Updates for Your Commerce Server Bookmark File
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…
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Pointers for Securing a Commerce Server Deployment
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!
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Some Virtual Catalog FAQs for April
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:…
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CS2009 Template Pack, Inline Editor, and Localization Guide Now Available
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…
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SharePoint Designer Now Free – Great for CS2009 users…
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…
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Clarifying – Is there a Commerce Server Certification? No…
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…
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Feedback Requested: Removal of CS2000/CS2002 ISAPI Authorization Filter
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.…
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Soliciting Feedback on Next-generation Commerce Server OS/Database Platform Support
While Commerce Server 2009 was being launched last week at Mix ’09, those of us involved in product development are already hard at work on the next version. And we need your feedback! One of the key themes of the next version is providing a single, unified setup experience. In…
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Commerce Server 2009 Now Available & related useful links
I am pleased to announce that Commerce Server 2009 is complete and has released to manufacturing. It will be available in April through Microsoft’s worldwide volume licensing and is available for download NOW by MSDN subscribers. In the meantime, to get started – there are several really useful resources: CS2009…