MCMS 2002

Migrating from MCMS 2002 to MOSS 2007 Web Content Management (WCM)

Wayne Larimore — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:54:00 GMT

I caught this over at AC's blog. Joel Oleson has made available a case study looking at a few areas in migration: (Navigation, Search, Summary pages, Deployment scripts, Form login screens and Developing the approval workflow). They also present some best practices in migration.

» Improving an IT Self-Help Portal User Experience - Technical Case Study

Web Content Management (WCM) Links and Resources

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:37:00 GMT

[via AC]

Need a place to hold-up for awhile and absorb all things Microsoft Web Content Management? Well, stop your looking by golly. Andrew Connell has built the Wal-Mart of WCM Resources - and has done a fine job at it. When you first walk in (er, click in) the eye-candy is appealing. Yeah, this is where it's at - hands down. Book mark it, Add it to your favorites, pass the word around and wake the kids.

Andrew Connell's Web Content Management Resource Site - *** The Definitive Source ***

Catch Up References - MOSS 2007, WSS v3, SharePoint 2007

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:59:00 GMT

I thought I'd relay some references that I've read on Andrew Connell's blog this morning.

Great SharePoint 2007 Web Part series by Sahil

MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 SDKs available for download

MSDN SharePoint Migration Center now live - including MCMS migration/upgrade information!

**NOW AVAILABLE**: MCMS 2002 Assesment Tool

If you are going to TechEd 2006 in Boston, be sure to catch Andrew Connell and Heather Solomon when possible:
Find more on Where Andrew Will Be at the following link: TechEd: CMS to WCM Migration Theater
Heather Solomon's whereabouts can be found here: TechEd: BOF Session and TechEdConnect

Tips To Make Sure Your Virtual Machines are Running at their Peak

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:17:00 GMT

Andrew Connell has posted another informative piece on using virtual machines more efficiently. These are invaluable tips when working with large environments such as SharePoint and MCMS (or WCM). AC has been burning the midnight oil the past few months since starting with MindSharp. I'm sure he has become quite the guru in Virtual PC and Virtual Server environments out of necessity.

Read it or bookmark it later by clicking here...

Making sure your virtual machines are running at the peak performance...

MSDN WebCast: The Evolution of WCM in MOSS 2007

Wayne Larimore — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:21:00 GMT

I've been quite busy lately and was out of town when Andrew Connell gave his debut webcast. If you are interested or currently doing MCMS development you'll want to check this out.

MSDN Webcast Follow-up: The Evolution of WCM in MOSS 2007 (links, references, & additional questions answered)

SharePoint 2007 / WCM --- Built on ASP.NET 2.0

Wayne Larimore — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:52:00 GMT

[via ScottGu]

One of the things we did with ASP.NET 2.0 was to work very closely with the SharePoint and CMS teams within Microsoft to enable much richer architectural and developer integration than we had with previous releases.

Read the entire posting over at...

» SharePoint 2007 -- Built on ASP.NET 2.0

Calling All Content Management (MCMS) Groupies - Vote Now!

Wayne Larimore — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:48:00 GMT

Andrew Connell is needing your vote to have a Birds Of A Feather Session at TechEd 2006 this year.

Vote Now

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Migrating your Content Management Server 2002 sites to Web Content Management in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Web Content Management (WCM) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a significant upgrade from Content Management Server 2002 (CMS). The most significant change is the change to using Windows SharePoint Services as the underlying platform for WCM. The tradeoff: no backward compatibility with the CMS Publishing API (PAPI)! No fear, in this BoF session we'll discuss best practices for current CMS site development, and how to get your CMS site ready for the move to WCM, and what post migration issues you'll have to tackle. Come share your questions and ideas with others to best prepare you and your team with the migration tasks ahead of you.
Intended Audience: IT Pro; Developer
Submitted By: Andrew Connell, MVP, Mindsharp

Andrew Connell on Orlando Codecamp ASP.Net Podcast

Wayne Larimore — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:36:00 GMT

In a previous posting I gave my farewell to AC from our company. I also predicted that there would be good things in store for his future. Well, here's step one for the former colleague known as “AC”. Andrew was included in Wally McClure's ASP.Net roundtable Podcast. With so much coming up with Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and Web Content Management (WCM), the fields are ripe for harvest. In a side-note, I believe I heard Bayer White's name during the round table also. Anyways, Go Andrew Go! It's good to hear your laugh in the background :o)

Some MCMS References

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:03:00 GMT

It's been a while since I've posted anything MCMS related. That's because I've been in the InfoPath / Sharepoint integration development fast lane. So, I thought I'd just take some of AC's (MVP MCMS) recent postings and refer to them...

How did Microsoft ever come up with the plan to integrate CMS into SharePoint in O12? Gerhard tells!

Mark maps MCMS 2002 -> MCMS vNext (aka: WCM) terminology

MCMS 2002 SP2: two post-SP2 hotfixes available by request

Farewell to AC, Turn Up The Heat Mindsharp

Wayne Larimore — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:15:00 GMT

It's not too often that you get to work alongside someone who has great passion and ambitions when it comes to software development. Andrew Connell recently announced his departure from his (and mine too) current employer. I remember the day when I was asked to “show the ropes” to a new employee on some coding practices within the group. I could tell then and there that this mentee was going to be someone who made a difference within our organization. Not since my early days in I.T. America have I seen someone who lived to code and coded to make a difference for the end-users. Every true developer knows what I'm talking about. From my experience there's really three types of developer-employees: those that really enjoy what they do and probably would do it for free, those that enjoy it but have found other important things to balance out there lives and those that see it as a daily grind and paycheck. Oh, and there's one more - those that shouldn't even be there but hang on because of the paycheck. Andrew matched the first profile until the birth of his first child, son Steven. I would say he has stepped into the second profile - I swear the dude was on a latte-high or code-red binge in the early days, and still is from time-to-time (just breathe AC!).

At the time when Andrew was handed the MCMS project within our company, we had another one in queue. The other being our first furray into ASP.NET 1.x development - I chose it thinking it would be funner (ha!). Well, Andrew took on the MCMS project and ran with it. He started his blog, dedicated it to MCMS development in order to help others struggling with the same issues he was having. The end result was more success than I could have envisioned for him: being awarded MVP, coauthoring a book and now given the opportunity to teach others on a much larger scale. I think this is only the beginning for Andrew Connell. I wish him the best. Andrew, I will miss your enthusiasm and valuable input and insight that we took for granted. I look forward to watching the evolution of your blog and future endeavors.