Thanks to Charles Teague for providing some of the technical detail for this article. (Cross posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/finbar_ryan/archive/2012/05/02/commerce-server-and-the-mscs-catalogscratch-database-and-maintenance.aspx ) We’ll cover what...

When attempting to pack a site or unpack a site you may received errors or failures during the packing or unpacking process. This may be caused by various factors but I wanted to point out one cause that is new when using IIS 7.0. In IIS 7.0 you have...

As you know the Commerce Server 2007 and Commerce Server 2009 help use the new Visual Studio Document Explorer format which means that it’s not as portable as the HTML Help format. I generally don’t have Commerce Server installed on my laptop (I know...

Listed below are the steps you need to perform to successfully export your catalog to a directory. 1. You will need to export your catalog schema using the Commerce Server Export Catalog tool a. Open a command prompt b. Go to the Program...

I was asked recently by a customer what was the easiest way to determine what version of Commerce Server they have installed. There are many ways to check such as Control Panel…Add/Remove Programs with updates being shown, registry setting and in the...

By default, in Commerce Server 2007 and Commerce Server 2009 the Commerce Staging System (CSS) will poll the StagingLog.mdb every 5 seconds. Under normal circumstances this polling interval is not an issue but under an highly used CSS system the frequent...

In Catalog Manager, when you perform a search for a product, category, etc. by default the maximum number of results that will be returned is 500. You can alter the maximum number or results returned by making changes in the Catalog Web Service web.config...

Both Commerce Server 2007 and Commerce Server 2009 have been tested on Windows Server 2008 R2 and both are fully supported on this platform. However there are a few items that I wanted to review regarding either upgrading or installing either version...

If you have deployed any of the Commerce Server 2009 sample sites or your own custom site on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 based deployment, and then decide to upgrade that deployment to Office SharePoint Server 2007, your Commerce sites already deployed...

With Commerce Server 2007 and 2009, if you are using a site based on the Core API such as the Starter Site, you can set the site to share cookie domain level at 2. If you have the web application non-secure hostname (for example: NonSecName.testsite.com...

When entering the store objects in Customer and Orders Manager for the Store Locator, you have the option to enter in the latitude and longitude of the store location. Traditionally latitude and longitude are shown in the following format of Degrees,...

In Commerce Server 2009 we have a new feature as part of the new default sites. This is the Store Locator. The Store Locator provides the ability to have a user enter an address or zip code and find all of your store locations along with getting driving...

When you setup a new site in Commerce Server 2009 using the SharePoint Commerce Services Configuration Wizard (SCSCW), it can be used to create the new web applications in both SharePoint and IIS. When you do this there is one additional step that you...

When you configure the user account for the application pool that the Default Site or the Contemporary Site will use per the product installation guide, typically referred to as the RunTimeUser account, you may see an issue where the FBA site will not...

As Commerce Server 2009 is now out and available I thought it would be a nice idea to do a post on “Where Can I learn more about Commerce Server 2009?”. The first place to keep in your list would be the documentation that is available here. Commerce Server...

The steps to setup and configure site variations in the Commerce Server 2009 Default Site and the Contemporary Site have been worked over several times here and instead of having a 10 page long post on the topic, we have published new documentation to...

As there have been question in the past on the terms and definitions used by Commerce Server, a while back we published a list in the Commerce Server 2002 time frame outlining the meanings to the terms and definitions. I thought it might be a good idea...

The following quick installation instructions are for developers who already have a Commerce Server 2007 installation up and running and want to upgrade to Commerce Server 2009. This post will walk you thru the required installation steps to get the...

The Commerce Server 2009 Installation guide is a large document covering the setup and deployment of Commerce Server 2009. Although great effort went into making sure we covered all the aspects of setting up Commerce Server 2009 some things in the document...

We have completed all testing of both the Commerce Server 2007 Core API and the Data Warehouse functionality with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. All test cases have passed with no issues and we do fully support this update to SQL Server 2005.

The MSDN support and news forum for partners and customers is now live and you can start posting your Commerce Server 2009 related questions, suggestions and feedback on the forum. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/commserver2009/threads/...

Commerce Server 2009 is coming and if you are not already reviewing it then I would like to encourage you to do so. Commerce Server 2009 delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an...

When you attempt to register the Commerce Server 2007 Security Configuration Wizard template on a machine running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 installed you may receive an error that it cannot be installed.  The instructions for the installation...

The December CTP release of the upcoming Commerce Server 2009 is available for everyone to download and start taking a look at.  You can find it here... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dc30f74f-e510-40b4-8da2-895e33fc9490&displaylang...

In the Commerce Server 2007 MSCS_Admin database there is a SQL Server security role named "admin_commerceAdministrator_role".  The purpose and usage of this role is to allow a user or group who do not have DBO or SYSAdmin privileges in...