How to get MCMS 2002 SP2, VS.NET 2005 and Team Foundation Server working together

Stefan Goßner posted this important article on his blog. Thanks Stefan for this article
Stefan Wrote
As I dicussed earlier MCMS is not supported with Team Foundation Server. The reason is that the developer tools shipped with MCMS are incompatible with Team Foundation Server and raise an exception when items are checked in.
This might be a significant design limitation for customers, so I spent some time to identify a workaround for this problem. The problem is caused by the developer tools integration in VS.NET 2005. To get Team Foundation Server working with an MCMS template project it would be required to disable the developer tools for this specific project. To still allow users to manage template gallery item it would be required to use a standalone version of MCMS template explorer.
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How to maintain a Microsoft Content Management Server database

This article discusses general best practices for maintaining your Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) database by using tools that are included with the MCMS client tools and with SQL Enterprise Manager.

This article also discusses a substitute process for the Background Process (BP). This substitute process includes a SQL stored procedure version of the BP together with an ASP sample script to delete expired postings and to delete expired pages in your MCMS database.

Note The substitute process is for MCMS 2001 only.

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MCMS and .NET 3.0 / WCF

Sometimes you need to write webservice coded in .NET 3.0 / WCF but the problem here is the site manager.
In this case Site Manager will not run if .NET 3.0 is installed. You would need to create a config file to enforce the usage of .NET 2.0 and to separate the environment for .NET versions to be able to run both Site Manager and your web service.

Unauthorized user able to create posting !!!!!!

This case was reported on microsoft.public.cmserver.general group

Case:
We have multiple websites hosted on the same CMS farm by mapping Channel Names to Host Header Names. On one of the sites any user whose is a member our AD group can create new page/posting even though they are not assigned any role in the CMS system. This happens only on one site among the several sites in the server.
Have anyone come across this issue before.

Answer:
please check your rights groups.
Sounds as if the guest account has been assigned to a non-Subscriber rights group.
This is not supported and will lead to such an issue.

Answered by: Stefan Goßner

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

I get an HTTP 401 error in Site Manager when trying to export or import items. What might be causing the problem?
Answer
1 - Ensure that the 'ASPNET' account has the "Impersonate a client after authentication" privilege.
2 - Ensure that the /MCMS virtual directory has anonymous access enabled.
3 - Ensure that the /NR virtual directory has anonymous access enabled.

Failures occurred during multi-object rollback. The session transaction was rolled back. Contact the site administrator

As usual I came yesterday to my office and opened the mail then I found mail from client say “very urgent- CMS error” opppppppppps, site is up and running since 6 months so what happen?

So I told them that the problem will be one of the following


1 – Transaction log reached very big size and I recommended to them these articles

Microsoft.com
http://www.banmanpro.com/support/logfiles.asp .



Finally the error was because they did replication to the database.

Creat New Page error

Today I had a critical demo on staging server and while I’m trying to create new post I got this error Contact the Web site administrator if you believe this directory should allow execute access. The problem was in the IIS that I should allow scripts and executables in the execute permission

How to: Customize the Variation Root Landing Logic

When you provision a site collection in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and configure variations, Office SharePoint Server 2007 does the following:

• Creates a page in the variation home site named VariationRoot using the VariationRootPageLayout.aspx page layout file in the Master Page and Page Layouts Gallery.


• Replaces the default Welcome page of the Variation home site with the VariationRoot page.

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How to: Deploy Content Between Servers

This code example shows how to use the object model to create paths and jobs that deploy content between site collections. This code assumes that the source and destination site collections are in the same server farm. However, paths can be configured between different server farms. The tasks this code performs can also be done through the user interface in SharePoint Central Administration.

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Custom Document to Page Converters

The document to Web page conversion process is built on the document converter infrastructure in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. And, just like the document converter infrastructure, it also provides developers with the ability to create their own custom document converters.

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