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Community Server Quickly

By : Anand Narayanaswamy
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Community Server Quickly

By: Anand Narayanaswamy

Overview of this book

Community Server is Telligent System's award-winning solution for quickly and easily enabling online communities. It includes a suite of integrated applications, such as blogs, discussion forums, photo sharing, file sharing, email lists, newsgroups, and more, which together can help you create your community presence. Community Server is the trusted solution for many organizations ranging from Microsoft and Dell to Conde Nast and Match.com, and powers massive communities like the Microsoft ASP.NET forums (www.asp.net/forums) and the XBOX forums (forums.xbox.com). You can learn more about Community Server, and see it in action, at http://www.communityserver.org. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book will guide you through the installation, administration, customization, and deployment of a Community Server solution. With the help of this book you will be able to start using your Community Server site within minutes of its installation. The book kicks off with a brief overview of Community Server, its various editions and licensing options, and installation procedures and then delves deep into the creation and management of blogs, forums, photo galleries, file galleries, and more. The book also explores the different ways you can customize your Community Server site along with coverage of various add-ons and modules. You will also learn how to manage your Community Server license and other related settings. Towards the end, the book provides an overview of the various steps required to deploy Community Server to a hosting server.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Community Server Quickly
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Working with Disallowed Names


With the help of the Manage Disallowed Names setting, the Administrator can prevent inappropriate names, called disallowed names, from being displayed on the site and being used as usernames during user registration. Community Server provides a list of some of these disallowed names, which are displayed in the page that appears after clicking the Manage Disallowed Names setting. You can also create them by supplying the name to be disallowed in the Name field and clicking the Create button as shown below:

From the above screenshot you can see that a disallowed name moderator is created that will be added in the list of disallowed names. Hence the Community Server will prohibit any user registering as moderator and display a message: Filled in username is prohibited on this forum. Please choose other username.

Now you know how to disallow a user from registering as moderator, you can also disallow names that are similar to this username like moderator1, moderatoradmin...