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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

Chapter 4. The Server Configuration Application

In the previous chapters, you installed MCMS and connected it to a back-end SQL Server database using the Database Configuration Application (DCA).

During the process, you made some basic decisions regarding the way MCMS is configured to run. These and many more settings can be configured using a web interface known as the Server Configuration Application (SCA).

As a developer, you are likely to use the SCA very often to configure options, tune the cache settings, and look for pockets of information that are necessary for setting up your websites. This chapter is designed to walk you through the available options. However, nothing beats getting hands-on experience. Right now, we don't have a website to see the effect these values have on the system. Along the way, we will refer you to chapters that provide a step-by-step guide on how to work with these options on a live website.

Starting the SCA

Start the SCA by pointing to Start | Programs ...