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Community Server 2008
Now that was a smooth transition. Within minutes BloggingAbout.NET was upgraded from version 2007.1 to Community Server 2008. We've gotten a brand new license from the great folks over at Telligent , the folks behind Community Server . For logged...
Posted: Apr 21 2008, 09:05 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Community Server on Windows 2008
TAGS When you've installed Community Server on Windows 2008 and especially are running under IIS7, you'll probably get some problems with at least your tags. Community Server will throw a 404 "Page not found" error on tags with spaces...
Posted: Apr 16 2008, 02:17 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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New skin for BloggingAbout.NET
Before installing Community Server 2007 I wanted to customize the look and feel of it a bit, so it wouldn't be the standard CS2007 skin. Luckily there was a theme competition at Community Server and Kevin Harder created a great skin. I've installed...
Posted: Aug 21 2007, 11:04 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Login on Microsoft Community Server websites
I don't know if you can find them, but I have no idea how to get to the login page and/or register account page via some link, on weblogs.asp.net and blogs.msdn.com. A lot of blogs have anonymous comments turned off, therefor you might want to register...
Posted: Dec 15 2006, 09:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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IE7 Search Provider
Recently I've installed a search provider for IE7 on BloggingAbout.NET. This means that on every page here you should be able to search this site using the search box in the upper-right corner of your IE7 browser. You can also install it into IE7 and...
Posted: Dec 07 2006, 12:13 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Community Server newMediaObject
I wanted to see if the newMediaObject module, offered by the Community Server team, had benefits over my current implementation. Although I still have to figure out why, the implementation we had running kept creating copies of the media objects when...
Posted: Nov 10 2006, 10:33 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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Community Server 2.1 SP1
Just upgraded Community Server 2.1 to Service Pack 1, downtime was only a few minutes. Thanks Telligent. Be sure to check out Blogmailr.com if you want to blog using e-mail, for free. I still prefer Windows Live Writer though for the features, the SDK...
Posted: Nov 09 2006, 09:51 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Wishes for Community Server 3.0
Logik! was the one who started with a wish list for Community Server 3.0. I don't know if others have picked this up, but I have some wishes for myself. Let's see: Skinnable root pages I'm not sure if the new theme engine will support this, but I sure...
Posted: Oct 06 2006, 11:08 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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Windows Live Writer
Since last night's upgrade, BloggingAbout.NET supports Windows Live Writer 100%. And I really love writing new articles with WLW, especially now it can automatically 'upload' images as well. Here are the steps to take when you want to join in on the fun...
Posted: Sep 30 2006, 06:05 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Community Server 2.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 upgrade
Until a few hours ago, BloggingAbout.NET ran on ASP.NET 1.1. For multiple reasons I wanted to upgrade to ASP.NET 2.0, one of them being that most Community Server addons are released ASP.NET 2.0 only. So I've created an exact copy of BloggingAbout.NET...
Posted: Sep 30 2006, 01:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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[Spam] Someone placed a new comment!
At this community with some beautiful members who like to blog here, we had a serious problem. Spam comments. I've blogged about it before and others as well. So when reading the article about the CS Spam Blocker by Jayson Knight , I read that comments...
Posted: Aug 31 2006, 01:22 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 12 comment(s)
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Spam control
We're getting some serious comment spam at the moment. Just today I've already received a couple of hundred comments that Community Server marked as spam. Although none of them pass the great spam filter(s), it's still very irritating. Here are some tips...
Posted: Aug 22 2006, 05:02 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 10 comment(s)
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Modify paperclip skin
Because I sometimes want to paste source code into my posts, I want my skins to be a little wide. Source code is often much wider than normal text. I really like the new Community Server 2.0 paperclip skin, but it wasn't wide enough. So I changed it a...
Posted: Aug 14 2006, 03:01 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 7 comment(s)
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Community Server 2.1 Features
Community Server just keeps getting better and better, providing more features then I could even imagine to incorporate into a product like this. Some features that our bloggers will probably notice most: FreeTextBox The editor that was installed since...
Posted: Aug 14 2006, 02:17 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Community Server 2.1 upgrade
Monday, august 14 2006, 12:30 CET Let's upgrade to Community Server 2.1. More info on new features can be found here . Monday, augsut 14 2006, 14:07 CET Well, finally all files are uploaded. The SQL update wasn't hard and took only a few minutes. Uploading...
Posted: Aug 14 2006, 12:30 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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