[Via BillCan ] We're always telling you how important anti-virus and firewall software is for securing your home PC - the Internet is a dangerous place for unprotected PCs. Spencer Kelly met up with a reformed ex-hacker, who gave him a demonstration...

When developing a custom placeholder control an often requested feature is to be able to utilize the standard web author dialogs. E.g. if you need to implement a placeholder control that should allow the user to pick one or many resource gallery items...

Ever had the problem that you needed to do housekeeping on your MCMS database? Lots of space is often used by resources in resource galleries. So a good idea is to ensure that only used resource gallery items keep stored in the database. MCMS does not...

After enabling the "map channel name to host header name" feature in MCMS you quickly will run into the problem that the only way to access your web site from now on will be to use the configured hostname - means the name of the root channel. This...

When designing a MCMS website where forms authentication is the option to go to authenticate users it is very common that the login dialog should be included in a posting. This will require that guest account is enabled for the site - otherwise the...

Ever thought about protecting parts of your MCMS site with SSL? In IIS you can enforce this for virtual directories by setting a flag that this virtual directory is only allowed to be viewed with SSL but how can you achieve this with MCMS? The following...

The Site Stager component shipped with MCMS only allows staging of a ASP based MCMS site - not of an ASP.NET based site. Although it often would not make sense to get a static snapshot of a dynamic MCMS website, there can be reasons that require to...

Chester has again posted some "tricks" on his blog about how to enhance MCMS using unsupported methods. And again I have to say: Don't use such methods - your system will become unsupported! I really don't like the role of being the bad guy that always...

Ever had a need to export resources from a resource gallery using script? Then you will have seen that MCMS does not provide this feature out of the box. A workaround for this problem can be found here .

As already mentioned two days ago every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it's own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. Especially to integrate with...

Since yesterday a new support policy for Microsoft Virtual Server is available. This policy now outlines that most Window Server software (except the ones from this list ) is now supported in a Microsoft Virtual Server environment. Unfortunatelly...

Authoring connector as being shipped in the package allows to publish content from a Word document but it in a not very flexible manner: you can choose to publish a selected part of the document or the whole document to an (Office)HtmlPlaceholder object...

Short note: the list of whitepapers and other resourses has been updated today.

[via Business Web Software] InfoPath is a component of Microsoft Office that enables users to design and fill out electronic forms using the InfoPath client. InfoPath integrates with the other components of the Microsoft Office System and allows users...

Every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it's own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. If you go and simply add the MCMS website as content source to...

In some companies users are not allowed to download and execute ActiveX controls from a web server. As the HtmlPlaceholderControl edit component consists of an ActiveX control this can cause significant problems as special permissions would have to be...

Did you ever have the problem that you needed to quickly update a MCMS template definition on a production server or on a staging server where Visual Studio .NET was not installed? Or are you creating ASP based sites using MCMS 2002 and don't like the...

An often requested feature for MCMS is to have the ability to use a custom autheticaton provider like Passport, AD/AM, LDAP or just a table in a SQL database. Although MCMS requires to have NT/AD accounts to be used for authorization it is indeed possible...

As an author for an MCMS web site you might have experienced the problem that you first have to save a posting before you get the chance to update it's properties. Means first fill in the content into the placeholders, then save it and finally modify...

I want to let you know that Mei Ying , Angus Logan , Andrew Connell , Joel Ward and myself are currently writing on a second MCMS book. It will focus on more advanced topics which didn't make it into the first book. Here is a short overview of the topics...

If you have worked with MCMS for a while your database will fill up with template, postings, resources, channels, template galleries and resource galleries. When trying to create a new posting you will notice that it is not easy to locate the template...

Ever thought about implementing an RSS feed for your MCMS web site? Here is an article outlining how to implement this: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/04/107235.aspx

Today I started my MCMS tip of the day series. Every day - or at least every day I have time - I will show a tip for MCMS for various categories. Some of them will be new, some of them will just point to an existing article and will be a little bit like...

Since today Andrew Connell is a new MVP for Microsoft Content Management Server. He really deserves it as he has provided help to many customers in the public newsgroup for MCMS . I assume he will shortly be listed on the official site for MCMS MVP...

Get first-hand deployment experience through the Virtual Lab series. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hands-on labs will teach you how to set up the portal, organize content on the portal, manage user permissions, create Web Parts for...

Today I played around with community server to adjust how it places the different elements. Community Server on Technet has a couple of really nice skins but non of the addressed completly how I wanted to see my blog. The green Marvin3 skin was the...

Please update your links to my blog to http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner or for RSS http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/rss.aspx

[Via Artemis ] We have just published what we think is quite an important step in the documentation process – the developer reference. This is the CHM-style NDoc-generated class reference doc that we know you all love to get your hands on. It’s draft...

[Via Andrew Connell ] Todd Bleeker has a bunch of SharePoint web casts and samples listed on his site. » The 60 Hive: Webcasts and Samples

Just found that my blog was chosen as hot topic of the week for the Microsoft Content Management Server section of the official Microsoft Office Website!

Coveo provides an interesting solution for small IIS or MCMS websites as it is free for up to 5000 items: http://www.coveo.com/en/enterprise-search/

Although I'm not really a friend on enforcing this for every image - there are always some images in a site which are only there to beautify the site which don't have a message - here are some tips if you really need to enforce this. There are three...

Once in a while I see people using code to directly access the MCMS database. Today I found a blog from Chester who wrote a module to do this. Unfortunatelly direct access to the MCMS database without using the MCMS publishing API breaks the Microsoft...

I previously wrote an article that discussed an issue that can occur if an IFRAME is part of the MCMS page. Today Angus pointed me to another issue that can occur if you need to display an MCMS site in an IFRAME of another site. For presentation mode...

This was the first time that I got a full impression about what can be done with MCMS.Rapid . Actually this is really a great product filling many of the feature gaps MCMS has out of the box. The most interesting thing I saw was the SharePoint Webpart...

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)

MCMS context objects are not really designed for long running scenarios. Usually long running application need to take care on releasing unused resources and do housekeeping. Unfortunatelly MCMS context objects do not have such features implemented. Allocated...

A new MCMS article is live on MSDN: Enabling SSL Protection on MCMS Sites Complete list of all available Articles, Whitepapers and other useful stuff can be found here .

Through Angus I just got pointed to Blogmap which allows you to see where individual bloggers are geographically located. Would you like to see where I'm located and who else in my area is blogging? Then have a look here:

A common problem is that a resource gallery items might be deleted which is still being used in some postings. On the live site this will cause broken images and/or attachments and during authoring non-Administrators will see an error message . ...

I just took the chance to place a preorder for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood-Prince , the new Harry Potter book which will become available in July. Nice tidbit: they offer 40% savings on preorders!

Guy Barrette , a Business Architect in the Microsoft Team at Nurun in Montreal, a Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region and an MVP for ASP/ASP.NET reviews Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server on Universal Thread Magazine...

Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server has made it to the list of nominees for the .NETDJ Reader's Choice Award 2005 ! Cast your Vote here !

Two new MCMS articles are live on MSDN: Inside MCMS: How Content Management Server 2002 Processes Pages Setting Up a Shared Development Environment in MCMS 2002

Today I was pointed to an article with a very interesting easy approach to protect a web site against hackers: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/01/hackerbasher/default.aspx

IT Hit is currently developing next version of MCMS WAE. It will include many new features as well as bug fixes and integration with Teleric r.a.d. editor MCMS Edition v2.0. WAE v2.0 will significantly change the look and fill of MCMS Web Author making...

Developing my Property Authoring Server Control I run into the issue that using the Calendar control during Authoring time caused the "Are you sure to navigate away from this page?" dialog to show up. As it would have been an ugly idea to force the user...

The content of the MCMS whitepaper blog has now been moved to the following Article . The list of links has been updated today.

MCMS Whitepapers MCMS 2001 Backing Up and Restoring a MCMS 2001 Site Best Practices for Site Deployment Using Microsoft MSCMS Site Deployment Manager Building a Multilingual Site Using Microsoft Content Management Server Content...

IT Hit Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS) Web Author Enhancement IT Hit MCMS Web Author Enhancement replaces 3 standard MCMS Web Author dialogs with more convenient dialogs and installs new popup console. “Insert Hyperlink”, “Copy Page” and...