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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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at two ways of transferring MCMS objects from one server to another.

The first method used the Site Deployment Manager—an interactive graphical user interface that allows administrators to create export packages. The same interface is used to import these objects to a separate destination server.

The second method we looked at was how incremental updates to a site can be scripted as console applications using the Site Deployment API. Once written and compiled, the executable file can be run on a scheduled basis. We wrote scripts to perform incremental exports and imports as well as backups and restores of rights groups and users. We also discussed some differences between using the Site Deployment Manager and the Site Deployment API.

Finally, we compared the server-side deployment API and the client-side deployment API. Both essentially provide the same functionality with the exception that the server-side API is run on the local machine while the client...