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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

Connecting to an Existing MCMS Database


If you already have an MCMS 2002 database, say from another server, you can point MCMS to it instead of an empty database.

Before proceeding, ensure that the MCMS database has been assigned rights as listed in the section Assigning Users and Specifying Role Membership to the MCMS Database in Chapter 2.

Start the Database Configuration Application by pointing to Start | Programs | Microsoft Content Management Server | Database Configuration Application. Click Next to get past the splash screen.

DCA asks if it may stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service. Answer Yes. The next screen is the Select Database dialog. There, you will find the name of the database that your MCMS server is currently connected to. To change this database, click Select Database. Fill in the details of the Server location, Database Name and credentials used to authenticate with the server in the SQL Server Login dialog.

Should the selected database be an existing database, DCA...