March, 2010

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...