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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

Overview


The reader feature can be used to display content from the RSS feeds. As an administrator, you can grant role-based access to reader for the members of your site. Reader is also called Feed Reader and looks very similar to bloglines in terms of focus and functionality.

Imagine that you are participating in a TechEd conference being conducted by Microsoft. Your local Microsoft office maintains a blog for each and every speaker. You need to display all the posts made by those speakers on their blogs, inside your Community Server site. Moreover, you also want to display information about the latest publications at aspalliance.com. With the help of roller, you can easily aggregate the content from various websites into your blog.

With the release of Community Server 2.1, roller functionality has been integrated with the blogs. Hence, all the content from the relevant RSS feeds will be aggregated and displayed inside the relevant blogs. This feature is called Content Mirroring. The core...