I am pleased to announce that we now have available a Hyper-V VHD release of the SharePoint 2010 Template Pack for Commerce Server 2009. This is a 64-bit Hyper-V image - as SharePoint 2010 requires a 64-bit operating system. Hence, Windows Server 2008...

Today is the next step in evolving Commerce Server. As of this morning, the Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack for SharePoint 2010 has released and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cfd0c459...

Now that I'm done, I just wanted to quickly summarize the mini-series I just finished looking back at CS2009: CS2009 Overview: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2010/04/07/commerce-server-2009-a-look-back-at-the-one-year-anniversary.aspx A Deeper...

The biggest job in modernizing Commerce Server is most definitely that of replacing its programming surface. Achieving API consistency – and removing legacy components – has been one of the most oft-requested features in Commerce Server from a developer...

With respect to delivering more capabilities to end-users, the decision was simple: integration SharePoint. With the 2007 generation of releases, using SharePoint technologies on the Internet is very real. This will only be furthered by significant, deeper...

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I have now concluded the series of material constituting the Deployment Series of blog posts - and thus my brain-dump of the answers to all of the questions I find myself repeatedly answering. For quick access, please refer to: Part 1 - Kick-Off: http...

Backup and Restore Having good backups – and tested restore processes – is an important element of any mission-critical systems deployment. Commerce Server and SharePoint, like any other Microsoft server product built under the Common Engineering Criteria...

Building Boxes Configuring Commerce Server securely requires one to be an expert in the entire Microsoft technology stack that supports the underlying product, such as Windows Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, etc. Further complicating...

There are many potential flavors and permutations of configuring Commerce Server to run in multiple environments. For the purposes of this discussion, it is assumed that the following actual environments will be utilized for the sake of bounding the problem...

Overview Typical of small to medium businesses with their own dedicated e-commerce presence, the Single Environment Web Farm provides a separation of functions for performance and redundancy’s sake to the maximum extent possible within a single physical...

The Standalone Server The Standalone Server has a very simple topology – that of a single box. It is intended that all software be installed on this box. Typically secure configuration is a non-concern in this type of scenario, as it is typically intended...

There are currently two versions of Microsoft Commerce Server available – Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. Some of the key differences between the two can be summarized as follows: Function Standard Edition Enterprise...

In the Commerce Server product documentation, several baseline deployment configurations are covered in extreme detail. In practicality, this is only of partial use – as these configurations are extremely generic and do not map back to particular real...

Deploying any mission critical system is an extremely non-trivial task. Dollars and cents are at stake. Almost any deployment of Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 or 2009 (hereafter CS2009) can fit this bill. Inherently, e-commerce is about collecting money...

As announced on the official Commerce Server team blog yesterday – see http://tinyurl.com/yljcfwf for details or just follow http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/   – SharePoint 2010 support will be coming to Commerce Server 2009 this summer. This is obviously...

A few questions have come up about how can you do negative discounts. (For the record, a negative discount would increase a price. e.g. - If you qualify, raise the price of Item X by 10%.) The net is that Commerce Server doesn't really support this...

As a few people have unfortunately discovered, those still running Site Server-era code on Commerce Server 2002 discovered that ShopperID cookie is set to expire on January 1, 2010. Whoops! This can be worked around by manually setting an expiration...

All internal testing has now completed - and we can gladly state that BizTalk Server 2009 works with Commerce Server, without issues or any special black magic required. This applies to both Commerce Server 2007 SP2 and Commerce Server 2009. Hope this...

A question got asked to me today about how to migrate data from Commerce Server 2002. It was obvious from reading it, that at least one person doesn't know that there is a data migration tool. It will take data from all versions prior, specifically...

Recently, we have launched the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Commerce Server 2009 Code Name "R2" - which is the next version of Commerce Server. This is highlighted in the team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/archive/2009/06/22/the-next...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…there used to be a solution offering called the Microsoft Solution for Internet Business (MSIB). The MSIB solution integrated Commerce Server 2000 and 2002, Content Management Server 2001 and 2001, and SharePoint...

A colleague asked me the other day – if I have a CS2007 site and don’t feel like changing it (much) at the moment, what’s in it for me to upgrade to Commerce Server 2009? A very good question indeed – I thought… First, Commerce Server 2009 does not...

New Links from Microsoft: https://connect.microsoft.com/Survey/Survey.aspx?SurveyID=8674&SiteID=643 - The Connect Feedback site and June Evaluation VPC http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/en/us/downloads.aspx – The authoritative download...

Life has been busy. Busy working on the next version of Commerce Server, that is. A few weeks back we posted the June CTP of CS2009 code name “R2”. This is the first CTP of the next version of Commerce Server, which will be available by 1st Quarter 2010...