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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Launching SCA from a Remote Machine


Out of the box, the SCA runs only from a browser on the local CMS server machine. Special provisions must be made to create a secure network connection (SSL) before you can run it off a remote machine. Without SSL you will get the error message below:

This restriction safeguards you from unauthorized access to information managed by SCA. As you work through this chapter, you will see the list of options that can be configured and the effect each one has on the system. Should hackers sniff the network and get hold of unencrypted data passed over the wire, they might get information about your MCMS configuration including the username and password for the MCMS system account.

Additional security on the SCA is always a good thing. As far as possible, restrict access to just administrators who have local access to the server. Although it is not best practice, there are occasions where the need for remote access to the SCA arises.