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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

Managing Blogs Globally


As a site administrator, you can specify permissions and other related settings for the management and appearance of blogs globally. In this section, we will examine these options in detail.

Firstly, you should log in as an administrator and open the Dashboard by clicking on the Control Panel link located at the top of the page. Once you are inside the Dashboard click on the link titled Administration. You will see a new page with the caption Site Administration. From the page, you can give permissions for various applications included with Community Server. You should note that any modification to any of the settings will affect the whole site globally.

Pull down the Blogs link from the navigation panel located on the left side. You will see a series of options. We have already examined the first three options in the earlier sections of this chapter. Let us examine the other options.

The Global Permissions option enables you to specify various permissions globally...