- Paperback: 1136 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (November 6, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321194446
- ISBN-13: 978-0321194442
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Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) may be relatively new on the Web-publishing scene, but it’s very closely integrated with the Windows infrastructure and therefore an attractive option for many organizations. Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide is both a tutorial and a reference in which the authors strive to explain the Microsoft Way of rising to the Web publishing challenge. You’ll want this one close at hand if you’re involved in setting up or maintaining a MCMS site. Preferably, you’ll have read the chapters that deal with architecture and design–which collectively make up about half of this large paperback document–well in advance of installing the first MCMS component. Better yet, you’ll have had the various members of your Web publishing team (network people, Windows administrators, database experts, and so on) read, ahead of time, the chapters that concern them.
This team-authored book uses a variety of strategies in communicating information to the reader. These include discussion of design issues (generally quite effective in making the reader think about the situation on his own site), narrative elucidation of procedures with frequent screen shots, and code listings (generally under-commented and therefore less useful than other elements). In any case, this is from-the-source documentation of an expensive software package. You’ll benefit by having it around. –David Wall
Topics covered: How to install, configure, and use Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. Sections deal with the general architecture of MCMS, and its particular ways of facilitating page design, user interaction, and workflows. Integration with Visual Studio–the chief advancement in the 2002 version–gets lots of attention, as do security and user rights managements. The Publishing API (PAPI) is covered in greater depth here than anywhere else.
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Praise for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002
“This is one of those rare books that you will read to learn about the product and keep re-reading to find those tidbits that you missed before. Need to know how to setup CMS? Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide will tell you. Need to know how the information is being processed before the user views it? Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide will tell you. A great book no matter what your experience level is with Content Management Server.”
—Gary Bushey, SharePoint Portal Server MVP
“A concise and accurate guide to Microsoft’s enterprise development tool for content-centric applications. An invaluable resource for any developer who wants to get the best out of Microsoft Content Management Server.”
—Ed Robinson, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
“Content management is a complex, multifaceted application area, and Microsoft’s CMS Server is a complex product. This book sets out everything you could possibly need or want to know about CMS. The title could easily be The CMS Resource Kit since it will be an essential addition to the library of any IT professional or developer working on content management and Microsoft’s CMS.”
—Thomas Lee, Chief Technologist, QA
Content Management Server (CMS) is fast becoming a vital content-management tool that helps administrators and developers handle the ever-increasing amount of content on their Web sites. However, an authoritative source of product information has been missing . . . until now.
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide is the first book that explains how to effectively unlock the power of CMS. Administrators and developers alike will learn how to enhance their Web servers’ scalability, flexibility, and extensibility by using CMS features and API to manage content on the Microsoft platform.
This thorough reference explains the product architecture, then shows you how to create and edit content and use the workflow. Topic coverage includes CMS administration and security, the Publishing API, deployment options, site configuration, and template development. A running example is used throughout the book to illustrate how important CMS features are implemented in real-world Web site development. Inside you’ll find answers to such questions as:
- Chapter 6: How do you customize workflow?
- Chapter 10: How do you develop for Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2002 using Visual Studio .NET?
- Chapter 17: How do you establish user rights?
- Chapter 22: How do you best deploy CMS according to your organization’s needs, size, and resources?
- Chapter 32: How do you publish dynamic data?
Books in the Microsoft Windows Server System Series are written and reviewed by the world’s leading technical authorities on Microsoft Windows Technologies, including principal members of Microsoft’s Windows and Server Development Teams. The goal of the series is to provide reliable information that enables administrators, developers, and IT professionals to architect, build, deploy, and manage solutions using the Microsoft Windows Server System. The contents and code of each book are tested against, and comply with, commercially available code. Books published as part of the Microsoft Windows Server System Series are an invaluable resource for any IT professional or student working in today’s Windows environment.
About the Author
Bill English, MCSE, MCT, CTT+, MVP, GSEC, is the owner of Networkknowledge and an author, trainer, and consultant on Microsoft’s SharePoint and Exchange platforms. His books include Exchange 2000 Server (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2001), MCSE Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server Administration Readiness Review Exam 70-224 (Microsoft Press, 2001), Exchange 2000 Server Administration (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2001), and Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server Administrator’s Companion (Microsoft Press, 2000). Bill was named a SharePoint Portal Server MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft and has presented at Comdex, the Microsoft Exchange Conference, and the Microsoft Certified Trainer Readiness Event for Microsoft Exchange trainers.
Olga Londer is a principal technologist at QA, the United Kingdom’s largest IT training company. Shawn Shell has led eighteen CMS installations as the national content management lead for Dell Professional Services.
Todd Bleeker is vice president of technologies for International Projects Consultancy Services.
Stephen Cawood serves on Microsoft’s CMS team.
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Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is intended to be an outstanding reference on this emerging product. This book takes an in-depth look at CMS 2002 and outlines all areas of this product: from architecture to content authoring and publishing. In addition, we have chapters that detail how to create a site framework, administer a site, secure the site, and deploy the site in a production environment. There are several chapters on the Publishing API and how to extend CMS in your environment.
While most of this book is written for the developer in your organization, there are key chapters that will assist your infrastructure team in installing and monitoring a CMS 2002 production server.
In the first part of the book, we cover introductory information and the fundamentals of CMS 2002. This part has a short introduction to CMS 2002, discusses how to install CMS 2002, and then outlines the architecture for CMS 2002 in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 gives a sample outline on how to plan for a CMS 2002 implementation.
The second part of the book covers content authoring and publishing activities. We start this part by discussing the Web Author; then we move on to discussing publishing workflow in CMS 2002 and the Authoring Connector. This part is chock-full of examples and instructions on how to complete these tasks.
The third part of the book focuses on creating the site framework. We’ll show you how to create a new CMS site and how to structure the channel, template galleries, and resource galleries hierarchies in your site. We also have inserted an excellent chapter on how to develop for CMS using Visual Studio .NET, with special attention paid to how a CMS project is different from a generic project. This part also includes several chapters that focus on templates, including a chapter on template-based page processing, one on creating templates, and other chapters that discuss planning, creating, and debugging CMS templates. Finally, we’ll discuss working with placeholders in Visual Studio .NET, creating dynamic navigation elements, and connected postings.
The fourth part of this book focuses on site administration and security. Hence, we discuss how to work with containers, how to set up user security, how to use the Server Configuration Application, and how to secure access to your CMS site.
In Part V, we focus on site deployment issues, such as using the Site Deployment Manager and discussing various site deployment scenarios.
Part VI is for the folks who love the nitty-gritty and the details of CMS 2002. In this part, we cover PAPI, obtaining contexts, traversing channels, managing postings, manipulating postings, and finding CMS assets.
In Part VII, we discuss how to extend the functionality of CMS 2002. We cover topics like developing custom controls, customizing the Web Author console in Visual Studio .NET, extending the publishing workflow, publishing dynamic data in CMS, and building a Web service for CMS.
Part VIII is for those who administer a CMS 2002 server but don’t code in the CMS environment. In this part, we cover capacity planning and performance monitoring issues, to help you run your servers more smoothly and efficiently. We also provide tips on troubleshooting.
Part IX has migration information for those of you who need to migrate from CMS 2001 to CMS 2002.
Complete source code for the examples in this book is available for download at www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321194446.
No technical book has ever been written that can answer all the questions for every reader who picks it up. But this book will be able to answer most of your questions and show you how to install, manage, troubleshoot, extend, configure, and develop for CMS 2002.
Also, when it comes to purchasing a book, most readers evaluate the strength of a book, in part, based on who the authors are. Rarely has such a strong author team been assembled to write a book on a specific product. One of our authors works on the CMS team for Microsoft. Three other authors are very experienced developers, including one who is responsible for a nationwide CMS rollout on the CMS 2002 platform. By adding to that the direct support and enthusiasm of the CMS team at Microsoft, and three technical editors, we believe this book will be the benchmark work on CMS 2002.
We trust that you will find this book to be an excellent reference as you work toward a full CMS deployment in your organization.
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