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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

Getting Started: A Sample Forum


We will demonstrate the concepts with the help of a sample forum meant for developers. After the creation of the forum, you will be able to post and reply queries regarding various programming languages and technologies used by the majority of developers.

Before proceeding further you should log in to the Community Server as a user with administration privileges. This can be done by visiting the home page and signing in using the Administrator username and password you configured during installation.

As with blogs, forums also have a separate home page. For our sample forum, its web address will look like http://localhost/cs21/forums/default.aspx. The initial home page from the point of view of an Administrator will appear as shown below:

The page shown above will look similar for other users when they visit this page as they will be shown a list of forum groups. However, the list of forums may not be the same, as it depends upon the user's permission levels...