April, 2009

Someone asked me for resources on how to harden a Commerce Server deployment. The best starting point is: Deployment - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd464584.aspx Securing a Deployment - can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com...

I was sent several questions about Virtual Catalogs over this last month. So here are the answers... Q: My understanding is that items and categories are including in a Virtual Catalog by creating INCLUSION RULES. Is there a limit to the number...

I am super-excited to announce that today we have shipped: Commerce Server 2009 Template Pack: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147778 Commerce Server 2009 Inline Product Property Editor: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147779 A new white...

As of this week, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is now available for free. You can download it from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx . This will be a great tool for use in editing the pages in the Default Site in...

The question keeps coming up about whether or not there is a Commerce Server certification. As of right now, there is not - nor are there any definitive plans to offer this through the typical Microsoft Training and Certification channels now or in the...

When we shipped Commerce Server 2007, we began supporting ASP.NET Authentication for SQL Authentication and ADFS for Windows Authentication. In fact, this became the preferred and directed method to handle site authentication for Commerce Server. The...