I'm trying to decide to between using MojoPortal for my organizations CMS or Commerce Server 2009 with SharePoint 2010.
We already have SharePoint 2010 for our intranet. In that thinking, perhaps it would make sense to deploy the same technology?
We do not have a lot of traffic but do need basic e-commerce functionality.
I haven't really found a lot of documentation for Commerce Server 2009. It would have to share the same server with SharePoint 2010. I'm not worried about that because of the low traffic.
I'm worried about how difficult it is to install. Is it a nightmare product to install or is it pretty straightforward? Is it unrealistic for it to share a server with SharePoint 2010, even in relatively low traffic?
Any experiences with administering MojoPortal?
Thanks!
I've been working with Commerce Server for 6 years since 2002 version.
There is no problem in running your solution in the same SharePoint server of your intranet portal, since you have low traffic prevision. In regard to installation issues you should have in mind that it's not a simple product and the configuration usually takes some time. I think it's not a "nightmare" but not that simple too.
If you wish you could start you solution based on Starter Site which can be installed and then customized. The Starter Site have almost all features that you need in a simple e-commerce site.
Regards,
Alex
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My organization does not have QlikView WorkBench license. My question is, what are the limitations I will run into as I start using IIS with QlikView instead of QlikView web server.
Is it necessary to have workbench installed with license to be able to develop a web application using Visual studio to display QlikView files?
Currently we have QlikView Web server(non IIS install). If I migrate to IIS install, I just want to know if I may get stuck without a QlikView workbench.
Searched a lot on the net for this info but in vain, so please give some details. I am well versed with Javascript, Ajax, HTML and so on but not yet used them with QlikView .
To answer your questions.
There aren't any limitations, using IIS over Qlikview webserver is more of a personal preference, as most Qlikview experts do not have knowledge in IIS, if you are already familiar with IIS it might just give you an advantage in the future.
You do not need a workbench license to use IIS.
Here is a presentation to get started with Qlikview and IIS, although the presentation is of older versions the basics and fundamentals stay the same:
https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2943
I did a deep search over internet and watched videos. There is nowhere that I could find how to make Sharepoint 2010 accesible from internet using SBS 2011.
What could be the steps to do this?
i.e : sharepoint 2010 is running properly on intranet. But the users want to reach it from home as well. And we are using SBS 2011 including Active Directory. How will these users reach sharepoint from home or not only from intranet?
Would you direct me ?
I guess best solution is to provide VPN access to users. - future proof and you don't have to tweak any thing to the server. Its cheaper as well considering the cost and they will have seamless integration to AD
Next since you have already have AD configured ( it depends on how it has been setup) you could have additional ADFS configuration to authorise users.
See if you can upgrade to Windows Server 2012 essentials which gives more power than SBS 11 in terms of Claims authentication
Finally, you have to use Claim Based Authentication for the authentication and DNS routing etc which you might have seen on the videos.
Finally, you have cloud think Azure as well as an option.
Although I haven't configured SBS 2011 for SharePoint extranet, It appears to be same like windows 2008 server (slim down one) according to MSDN which should not affect your requirement. Apart from licensing... ( check this).
We've been asked to look at SharePoint 2010 Standard (we currently have a small intranet on SP2007) with an aim to building a number of custom workflow solutions.
I don't have much experience of SP2010, but from a period of learning/testing it seems to be a very cumbersome system more tailored to allowing individuals/teams to create their own web sites for a specific purpose?
I have also seen some blogs on WF4 - which I have even less experience of! Can WF4 be used "stand alone" or does it require SP2010?
The workflows will range from very basic to reasonably complex based upon variables. e.g. "Route to next person in chain", "route to team based on a value(s)".
So my question is: Could someone give me any assistance in deciding which route to attempt for building workflows? I'm not even sure of the questions to ask of each of them! I appreciate this is subjective, but I'm sure there are people out there who have experience of both?
My experience is in C#.Net/MVC and WCF - the overhead of simply getting an SP2010 Dev environment setup and configured has already made me wary of SP2010!
I can´t tell you much about SharePoint other than that SharePoint 2010 still uses WF3 for its workflow engine. In SP2013 they upgraded to WF4 so if you are looking to run WF4 style workflows you will need to use that instead.
Windows Workflow Foundation is independent of SharePoint. You can create your own Workflow host and Persistence layer. APress had a great book, Foundations of WF which served as a great introduction to Workflow in .net 3.5.
SharePoint 2010 is based on .net 3.5 SP1 and uses the old/original Workflow Engine. It implements its own host and persistence, so it's quite its own beast. There is a wealth of information available for Workflow in SP2007 and SP2010, which is good because the list of caveats, exceptions and "You need to know this, or it'll bite you" cases. In addition, SharePoint 2010 allows workflows to be created in multiple ways: Through Visual Studio (Like a "real" WF Project), through SharePoint Designer and through Visio (the latter two being limited).
WF4 is a new Workflow Engine that Microsoft introduced in .net 4.0. It is not supported in SharePoint 2010, but the next version - SharePoint 2013 - is based on .net 4.5 and should in theory offer support for WF4. I have not verified this though.
I need advise on what can be best way to setup/configure SHAREPOINT 2010 Environment for 6-members teams (with 3-working at onsite and 2-working at offshore)
Currently I only had two team members but team is now increasing. What we have is DEVELOPMENT SERVER - with Visual Studio and SharePoint Server installed. Developers remote VNC to the box and do their development.
But with number of developers are increasing what should be ideal, so that team can communicate from offshore/onshore
Is this Ideal (installed on each developer laptop)
Visual Studio 2010
and
SharePoint Server (Installed on Windows Server 2008) and developers will use this rather than installing SharePoint locally (enterprise edition is very expensive)
We start to developing with SharePoint 2010 in the team one and half years ago. We try different environment structures for developing, but had many conflicts. Today everyone work in his own environment (HV) with SP enterprise edition, just sharing the code via Team System. The problem is in this set-up the content, everybody has his special content, but if it is critical for you, make backup in every environment.
So we have one SQL server, and for every developer a server with SP and VS.
By the way I think you don't need to purchase SharePoint Server for development environment. If I'm right it is free. You need purchase OS, Sql, VS, but not the SP. Please check with your Microsoft seller.
I'm currently looking for a webhost that offers Windows 2008 virtual or dedicated hosting for my ASP.NET app. On dedicated hosting you pay a monthly fee for Windows, I noticed there's a noticeable difference in cost between the web edition and the standard edition, so, my question is:
Does the standard edition come with MS Exchange? If so, is there any reliable equivalent in the web edition?
Thanks
No version of Windows Server 2008 OS (Web, Standard, Enterprise) comes with Exchange. They all have basic outgoing smtp capabilities but if your want imap, pop3, or webmail you need to look for a 3rd party product.
A popular free mail server is SmarterMail
As far as I know the web edition is only for hosting web sites. It does not include any mail server like exchange. It should have an smtp server and should be able to accept mail, but nothing like Exchange.
It might be possible to install a mail server on web edition, but I don't have enough knowledge to know for sure.
In past versions you could not install sql server on the web edition. I am not sure if that has changed.
Another good free email server is hMailServer. I've been using it, and its greylisting feature has really cut down on spam. However, I don't know if this will run on the web edition of Windows Server.
I just read on the SmartTools forum that SmarterMail will run on the web edition.
Does anything know the purpose of getting the Standard Edition of Server 2008 over the Web Edition? I am hosting ASP.NET websites with MySQL 5, SmarterMail and SmarterStats, and need 4 GB min of memory. Will the Web Edition work for this? Just want to make sure it doesn't block ports or anything. I read on another site that they don't allow you to run a mail server on the web edition. The price difference between the two is huge.