Today we are excited to announced that Community Server 2007, Beta 2 is now available! Community Server 2007, Beta 2 (Web Install) Community Server 2007, Beta 2 (MSI) Community Server 2007, One-Click Demo We've managed to fix quite a few bugs and tweaked some features (thanks for all the great feedback...

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and upgrade my site to CS 2007 Beta I figured I could only help do my part by testing and working out the little bugs to help make RTM time a most enjoyable occasion, everything went well with the upgrade though I lost a few of my modules which I will need to test and see which ones still work. Plus...

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or in Scott Watermasysk own words "The Wizard has been Assimilated" Previously as some of you already may know I was working as a contractor for Telligent Systems the home of Community Server . I am very happy to announce I have recently excepted an offer for full time employment so as of 3...

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Written by 4 of Community Server greats! Wyatt Preul, Keyvan Nayyeri, Jose Lema, Jim Marten and proof read by many more... Professional Community Server More Information Be sure to stop back for my review....

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As posted originally by Rob Howard on CommunityServer.Org We're thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Community Server 2007 Beta 1. Community Server 2007, Demo.exe ( NEW ) - Just double-click to run! It does require SQL Express (see readme notes). Community Server 2007, Windows Installer...

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Rob Howard has posted this announcement over at CommunityServer.Org! We've had a number of people ask about Community Server 2007 availability and licensing. The document below provides details on how Community Server 2007 is licensed, its availability, as well as information on how customers that...

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If you are running Community Server 2.1 and would like to have a single blog as the home page then this post is for you. All you need to do this is Ken Robertson's great Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping v2.1.60714 CS Module and a some tweaking to the SiteUrls.config and the CommunityServer.config to make...

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I have been tagged by the Burke man and the Qgyen master. 1) I was an over the road trucker for 2 years after the tech industry took a hard hit because of the 911 fallout, almost became a trainer before returning the the IT world in 2005. 2) I have Timneh (African Grey) Parrot named "Bri" and...

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Community Server Quickly If you are a Community Server site admin, owner or even a user then this is the book for you! Written in very easy to understand sections that covers everything from the installation and hosting all the way to using and customizing your Community Server site, includes many screen...

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Community Server 2.1 Service Pack 2 is now available. This is a recommended installation for anyone currently running Community Server 2.1. Download it Now! Service Pack 2 contains all Service Pack 1 items. Please note, if you download Community Server 2.1 after this announcement that version of Community...

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This how you can display the most recent blog posts from a specific blog or blog group on your Community Server home page. Open up the default.aspx file in the root (home page) and in this section just add the desired blog ( SectionID="" ) or group ( GroupID="" ) In this example I...

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I was asked about this by a community member over at Community Server so I thought I would post this to my blog for posterity. If you want to just run a blogger only site using Community Server and host multiple blogs this is how I did it. 1) Make a backup of all web files just in case. 2) Copied the...

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I just finished updating the main site to Nick's Aero 2 RTM and it's full of juicy goodness (stolen from the Burke man) Check out the sub menus for Blogs - Forums - Photos - Downloads click on the little arrows between the buttons to jump right to the sub items with in that button like specific blogs...

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Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, hope you all get to spend it with someone special and enjoy a good meal. I am thankful for my life, family, friends and my new job! Here is something fun for you to enjoy, hope it puts a smile on your face as it did mine. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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About one year ago I was fortunate enough to be invited into the Vista beta program thru Connect, Microsoft’s private testers group and began my beta testing of Windows Vista the next generation of the Windows operating system. One year later I find out that after all the hard work and troubles...

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This is a preview of what the UI for the latest release of the Aero theme for Community Server 2.1 SP1 from NB Development . Below is a set of screenshots from the Aero configuration script making it a breeze to customize the look and feel of Aero. (click on each thumbnail for a larger view and description...

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The Community Server 2.1 MetaBlog API Update is now available and is a recommended installation. This update extends the MetaWeblogAPI service in Community Server 2.1, adding support for the newMediaObject method. It will allow images and other files to be uploaded to a blog using the MetaWeblogAPI web...

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Remember to get out and Vote today Novemember 7th 2006. This is your chance to make your voice heard and the power of one added together does make a difference and this is one of the few ways you and I can influence what goes on with our world and communites. Also remember to think about the future and...

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As Rob Howard talks about on his blog there are 2 great books on Community Server coming soon the first one is more of a getting started book for new comers written by Anand Narayanaswamy called Community Server Quickly The second one is more technical and geared towards development and is written by...

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Coming Soon, this will change Blogging forever!

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Well I made it thru my first day on support at Telligent without getting axed! :-) Just kidding of course, it was a pretty good day I worked on Gold Forum support. Dave Burke has been kind enough to help me in getting my new hat to fit just right and so far I only got corrected once by Eric Duncan it...

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The much anticipated service pack for Community Server 2.1 has finally made it! This is a big update folks and I highly recommend you update your site, below is a list of the changes and fixes. Changes between Community Server 2.1 RTM and Service Pack 1 ----------------------------------------------...

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I am proud and excited to announce that on October 30th I will be joining the support team @ Telligent! I am sad to be leaving ASPnix but I think my best role is yet to come in the world of hosting, communities and asp.net I hope to bring something great to the team and to Telligent and of course to...

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Today is your special day hope you have a great one!

Happy Birthday Keyvan

Whew if you ever want to know what you actually do at work just take a little break and then come back and you will see! First of all I want to say thank you to Telligent for having us and being a very nice host(yummy BBQ from Bone Daddy's) Rob Howard and Scott Watemasysk are at the top of the thank...

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Well I am here at the office and already had some good BBQ right here in the office and got to meet quite a few Telligenti and we are having a nice lunch and learn session. The flight was late arriving to Dallas by one hour because it decided it wanted to rain on my travel day so we had a little delay...

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Only 2 more nights to go and The Wizz will be in Dallas. I am preparing for my trip and getting my laundry cleaned I figure I might as well wear clean clothes for a change, wouldn't want to make Dave look too good! I will be bringing with me some comments and ideas from the community as well as representing...

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On this day of rememberence I want to share the words to the song by Alan Jackson. Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) by Alan Jackson Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September Day? Out in the yard with your wife and children? Working on some stage in L.A.? Did you stand...

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Why do folks insist on garbaging up there personal blogs with things like google ads ? No offense meant towards anyone but I just don't get it? Not only does it look tacky to me but who actually clicks on those ads anyway while reading someones blog . and even if a few readers did they surely don't...

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That is the question, in shared hosting ASP.NET 2 Here is my problem, we run many web servers with many domains in a shared hosting environment and have experienced server crashes or slow performance from either clients just forgetting to turn off debugging in there ASP.NET 2 applications or trying to...

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Well tonight for fun I installed CommunityServer 2.1 on Windows Server 2007 "Longhorn" I downloaded the latest release (build 5600 32bit) of Windows Server 2007 Codename "Longhorn" from Connect this afternoon and then tonight after work I burned a DVD and installed in on my test server...

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Did you ever wonder how to change the number of blog posts that display on your blog home page or the blogs aggregate home page? Well those super developers over at Telligent have made it really easy for us non programmer types by adding some nice Control Panel options to handle this. Just login as Administrator...

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This weekend I will be taking a little Holiday and some Wizard and Family time, I will be unplugging and heading off to the farm. I also want to take this time to mention the Wizards best friend Rob Gersna who has no joined the world of blogging with CommunityServer so let's all encourage him to...

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I just uncovered this cool little feature and thought I would write about it. If you set a tag or tags in the Default Aggregate Tags box then only blog posts with those tags selected will show on the Blogs Aggregate page and also in the Blogs RSS feed as well. You can manage this feature by going to...

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Here I come! I am going down to Dallas on September 22nd to meet up with friend, fellow CSMVP and Telligenti Rich Mercer who is coming to visit all the way from the UK! We are planning on seeing the city and having a bit of a good time and of course going to meet some more Telligenti @ Telligent HQ I...

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Michael is at it again over at Custom Community and I am very happy about this little gem, while it's very nice to have IE spell built into the core of Community Server 2.1 unfortunately it only works with the Internet Explorer web browser so if you or your users prefer to use another web browser...

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Michael Trefry from Custom Community has re wrote his registration addin for Community Server 2.1 and it's available for both ASP.NET 2 as well as ASP.NET 1.1 in my opinion this really should be in the CS core because it's a much needed addition especially for large community sites, I have added...

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If you recently upgraded your Community Server site and the search is not working properly or not at all then run this script against your database to re-index the search barrel to solve the problem. TRUNCATE TABLE cs_SearchBarrel TRUNCATE TABLE cs_SearchIgnoreWords UPDATE cs_Posts SET IsIndexed=0 I...

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Jose came up with this little gem so I thought I would share what I did to get my badge to display on my blog. I am using a slightly modified version of the Cactus Paperclip theme on my blog so here is what I did to get it to work. Open up the BlogSideBar.ascx file which is located in the \Themes\Blogs...

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We’re please to announce the immediate availability of Community Server version 2.1! If you are running ASP.NET version 1.1: Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Windows Install (MSI) for ASP.NET 1.1 Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Web Install for ASP.NET 1.1 If you are running ASP.NET version...

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Just testing out Ken's Lightbox CS module.  

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I have decided to upgrade the site to CS 2.1 b2 since Nick released his Aero b2 theme for the new build. The upgrade went very smooth and only took about 30 minutes including the theme upgrade. I am still tighting things up on the site so you might notice small changes over the next few days....

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Thanks to Telligent and Community Server 2.1 Beta 1 and Nick my site not only got a brand new look but also some life breathed into it with Nicks new and Awesome Aero Theme . One of the coolest things about the theme is the customize tab in the right hand corner that lets users pick from many different...

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I am very happy for my good friend Jaxon to finally formally be awarded CSMVP status from Telligent he has been working his butt off lately with CommunityServer and is by far one of the greatest designers I know, congratz my man and welcome to the club!...

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This is how you can add a download or a link to a remote site as a forum to your CommunityServer site. When adding the forum simply type in the url in the url box and not only will it send the user to the url or start the download but it also can track the url to see how many hits you get by using the...

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I am just having a great time working from home for ASPnix Web Hosting I am also really enjoying the evolution of CommunityServer and love our CommunityPlace over at ASPnix Web Hosting that is running on CommunityServer it's the bomb!...

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Articles allows you to create new pages with the look and feel of your CommunityServer site and your skin or theme. It gives you the use of the same built in content editor that the Content Part control uses so you can paste in html or JavaScript or just use plain text if you like. To create an article...

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The Network Service account needs permissions set on specific folders that for some reason are not set when you install IIS and add the Application Role to the server and must be done manually. The first is on the C:\WINDOWS\Temp just click the modify check box and it will fill in the rest then hit apply...

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I just read a post in Setup & Installation on CommunityServer forums and thought I would do a CS tip on it. Go to Control Panel -> Membership -> Manage Roles Then click on the role you want to add the icon to and browse to your image and upload and save....

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I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet . It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful...

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Jaxon has again created an awesome CommunityServer resource I highly recommend if you have a CommunityServer site you read his blog daily for the tip of the day! Souplog...

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I have decided to release my two themes for CommunityServer 2 you can download them here and use them how you wish! Hopefully as time goes on I will get better at skinning and be able to do some of the fine work I have seen over at CustomCommunity ! Enjoy the themes and if you have any problems or questions...

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Telligent has release the final build of CommunityServer 2 (Build # 2.0.60217.2664) Source code will not be release till 5pm central today follow the link below to read more! http://communityserver.org/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=516103...

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I am both excited and proud to have been selected as a communityserver mvp I also want to congratulate the other winners and encourage future mvp's to step up! " /> Gary Mcpherson ( Genyus ) David Voss ( bayonet-recon ) Michael Trefry ( michaeltrefry ) Toshiya Inomata ( inomata ) Jan-Olov Eriksson (...

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This is to test a really cool new feature of CommunityServer 2 it's called cross posting and it allow one to post to more then one blog at a time as long as the remote blogs is using metablog api control and you have a user account to post too! Very Cool Indeed.......