Latest MCMS 2002 topics

We had a case where some content owners copied content from the old site (straight from IE) into the placeholders for the new site. Let me say one thing about that: tell your content owners NOT to do that. Why? Think of image links: they won’t be the same, but the URLs will be pointing back to the old site… scary! So we needed a utility that would tear through all text placeholders (Html & Xml) and search for a specific string.

I found these to be the most benefial resources around for MCMS. »no particular order«: GotDotNet User Samples Stefan Gobner’s blog (Microsoft Escalation Engineer for MCMS) MS public MCMS Newsgroup (google link): this was flat out invaluable… Stefan trolls it frequently (hourly) and helped me out of a TON of binds. FAQ by Stefan (noticing a Stefan trend here?) Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide : Very helpful.

Today is the date our site’s DNS is cutting over from the old site to the new site. We’ve worked on the old site for about 5-6 months and implemented it using Microsoft’s Content Managment Server 2002 SP1 . I’m about to embark on another MCMS project and since I learned a ton, accumulated a bunch of resources, and built a nice library of handy code snippets, I figured I’d create a category on my blog for MCMS specific stuff.

Chris Sells has a page filled with some nice utilities… I especially like the .NET CollectionGen tool .