Microsoft Content Management Server 2002

XML and .Net support make for a stronger development platform

by Keith Schultz

New Architect
March 2003

Keeping a high-volume Web site up-to-date requires more than a simple HTML authoring program—you’ll need a system designed to provide reusable components, content authorization, workflow management, and most of all, an easy-to-use authoring system for getting the content into the site in the first place.

Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 is an enterprise-wide Web content management system built on .Net technologies, XML, and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). MCMS is a separate server that uses IIS for management and for content publication. Microsoft is not known for its cross-platform/cross-vendor support, and MCMS doesn’t do much to change that impression. It requires a Windows 2000 or .Net server platform with the latest version of IIS, operating system patches, Microsoft Data Access Connector (MDAC), and also a Microsoft SQL 2000 server located on the network. (MDAC is strictly the SQL connectivity driver for MCMS to directly communicate with SQL.)

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	Content Management Server 2002
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