Hi there,

Up in Redmond last week attending the Commerce Server 2007 bootcamp I told Max that would be great to have all the tools demonstrated during the training in a kind of resource kit.

I now about all the difficulties to pack an official resource kit, meanwhile I'm revamping the Nihit Kaul work on Cool Tools for Commerce Server 2002 now for the 2007 version.

Kudos to Max Akbar, Colin Bowern and others...

  • Commerce Server Best Practices Analyzer: This is the Microsoft tool to check your Commerce Server 2007 infrastructure against a set of best practice rules.
  • Commerce Server Capacity Planning Tool: A website with a tool to start your capacity planning. It gives you start point to a more complete capacity plan for your deployment.
  • PackageThis: Max has already posted about this tool and its capacity to convert from new help file formats and documentation available on MSDN to portable/standalone CHM files.
  • PUPViewer 2007: This tool can be used to navigate through PUP file components. Now it is updated to Commerce Server 2007.
  • Securing Commerce Server 2007: Painted yourself in a tight spot configuring CS2007 security accounts, application pool identities, database roles, authorization manager role addignments? Enjoy Max's Secure Commerce Server 2007 tool.
  • Pipeline Component Project Templates: This one packages Visual Studio 2005 project templates for pipeline components development in C# and VB.Net. Kudos to Colin Bowern for this one.
  • Deploying Commerce Server 2007 Sites without Site Packager: Are you trying to automate your Commerce Server website setup and you feel that the CS Site Packager could be more flexible? Colin came up with a set of scripts and tools to create Commerce Server resources, change authorization manager roles, etc.
  • OrderFormViewer 2007: This one allows the visualization of the marshaled_data and search against orders without the Commerce Server Orders Manager.  

Since the GotDotNet workspaces are not available anymore I guess I missed some of the tools demonstrated during the bootcamp.

Max is now updating his website with all the tools @ http://www.commerceservertraining.com/.

Regards, Cris.

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