The question regarding does Commerce Server 2007 support Windows Server 2008 and/or SQL Server 2008 and/or Visual Studio 2008 has came up several times and I wanted to give a quick post on this. With the release of Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack...

Just wanted to share some information that apparently the developers at PayPal have an Express Checkout component in the works for Commerce Server 2007. Here is the link to the note about it. http://www.paypaldeveloper.com/pdn/blog/article?blog.id...

As many already know Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 Beta 2 has been released to the public with good reception. We have done some basic testing of IE8 Beta 2 against the Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site and Starter Site R2 and have found no real issues so...

In Commerce Server 2007 Staging (CSS) the event logging will retain 3 days worth of event and project data by default. The number of days can be adjusted from 1 to 999 by manually editing the appropriate registry value. To adjust the value follow these...

By default Commerce Server 2007 Staging (CSS) logs event and project data to an Access database. This works fine but for those administrators that won't to be able to better manage and make use of the reporting history usage of a SQL Server database is...

I have a question I would like to get some feedback on. For those that are building new Commerce Server 2007 sites how many start with the Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site as the base for your new site? Also, in your testing how many people use the...

After setting the sequence for product variants in Catalog Manager, the Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site still does not list product variants such as color or size in the desired order. They are always listed alphabetically. To resolve the issue you...

I've been away for a while from the blogging due to various reasons I won't go into here but things have settled down now and I plan to start back up my posting. For those who have offered comments on things to write about I am going to be looking into...

If there are any topics that you would like to see me blog about please post a comment and let me know. Do keep in mind that I will only be able to blog at a high level on some topics.

Commerce Server 2007 supports the process of "upgrading" from the Standard edition to the Enterprise edition. This is a true statement but I wanted to clarify what is meant by the use of the term "upgrade". When you perform an upgrade from the standard...

For those wishing to use the silent unpack feature of PUP.exe to deploy your site, you have probably noticed that there is not a sample INI included with Commerce Server 2007 as there was with previous versions of Commerce Server. And you may have also...

Commerce Server Staging (CSS) logs data of its actions to two Access databases, events.mdb and StagingLog.mdb. The data that is viewed in the reports comes from the events.mdb which is what most customers want to keep. As noted in an earlier blog post...

By default Commerce Server Staging will maintain 3 days worth of event data in its database. This is the data that is viewed in the reports for such items as when a project was ran and completed. To increase the nubmer of days that event reporting...

By default the Commerce Server 2007 Customer and Orders Manager requires that the connections to the Orders and Profiles web services be over HTTPS. This can be changed to allow it to work over HTTP instead. This is not the recommended method to use as...

Hello everyone...This is Charles Teague. I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Commerce Server support team. I support several products but my primary focus is with Microsoft Commerce Server. I have been with Microsoft for over 15 years now and...