Since my first article on how I modified the look and feel of my blog I have made some additional changes. Here is a summary of all changes I made to the original "Marvin3 - green" Theme: Insert picture in title Move title text to right to give...

MCMS has two built in approval roles: Editors and Moderators. This leads to the common misunderstanding that MCMS ships with two levels of approval - which is not correct! Editors and Moderators are not approving the same things. To understand the...

Just found a nice tidbit on Scott Hanselman's blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WindowsPreLoginWallpaper.aspx

[From a mail thread] Data stored in clipboard can be accessed by a malicious website through a combination of Javascripts and server side code (like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, CGI, ...). Just try this: Copy any text by ctrl+c Click the Link: http...

Today I have uploaded the latest version of the MCMS 2002 FAQ to the Microsoft Website. Here are the links to access the FAQ: Html Version CHM Version (perfect as offline version)

Have you ever wondered what happens inside IIS when a request comes in? There a several different scenarios depending on what file type the request accesses including static files, ISAPI extensions and CGI. David Wang has written a nice article explaining...

Today I received the second question in a row about the fact that the protocol and domain part of the entered URL is removed for links to postings. This behaviour is a feature of MCMS: In reverse proxy scenarios where requests are forwarded by a proxy...

The WCM (Web Content Management) Team in Redmond just started blogging. If you are interested in the future of MCMS you should definitily add this blog to your favorites: http://blogs.msdn.com/wcm

[Via jhawk ] Kent Sharkey (who manages the ASP.NET Dev Center) says that the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model series of whitepapers are live on MSDN - 10 parts, 120 pages! The providers page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/providers/default.aspx...

MSDN subscibers around the world are now able to download and install any one of the retail versions of the Visual Studio family products from the MSDN subscriptions site. In additon the 32bit and 64bit versions of the .NET framework 2.0 and .NET framework...

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates...

[Via Andrew Connell ] At the MVP Global Summit, Microsoft disclosed that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath, Publisher, Visio, and OneNote in Office 12 will support saving documents to PDF natively… no need for PDF printer drivers any more ...

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David has posted two articles about his thoughts on IIS Security vs. Apache which I would like to recommend to you: Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 2

[Via Eileen ] Small Business Webcast: Take the "Work" Out of Teamwork with Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (Level 100) Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Pacific Time Darin Browning, Business Development...

[Via Kevin Remde ] Windows Server 2003 R2 Webcast Series – Extend Connectivity and Control in Your Environment Did you know that there is a new version of Windows Server 2003 coming? Did you know there are new features coming in Windows Server 2003...

The MCMS FAQ I'm maintaining on the Microsoft Website got some respect by www.cmswatch.com : Microsoft's enviable CMS FAQ

Brian has provided a list of answers to the following questions about the new PDF support in Office 12: Do we support tagged PDF (for accessibility)? If we do support tagged PDF, what kind of semantics will Office 12 require the author to use...

Recently a question came up in the newsgroup on how to limit the size of a resource uploaded through Site Manager. Chester has now provided information on how to achieve this . As it requires the modification of an MCMS internal ASP file you should...

Arpan pointed me to an PC World article which talks about new file formats in Office 12 like PDF, XML and Metro: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122831,00.asp