This document contains a list of activities to help you optimize your system setup for migration to future editions of the software, if you are using Site Server 3.0 or Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.
Addresses the issues that a service provider must consider when setting up a secure Site Server data center.
Describes how to design and build an affordable, highly scalable server farm with as few servers as possible. By scaling vertically, horizontally, and consolidating operations with similar workload factors on dedicated servers, you can efficiently scale your server farm with the least number of servers.
This white paper describes how to set up Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition to work with Client Certificate Authentication.
Learn how to detect bottlenecks by running calibration tests, testing system capacity, updating user profiles, and monitoring key performance counters.
There are many things to consider, both from an architectural and a technology perspective, when designing e-commerce solutions for organizations that conduct electronic business with consumers and trading partners. This paper helps identify the technology and organizational aspects to successfully evaluate and build e-commerce solutions and extend them over time.
The most important thing to remember when designing an electronic commerce site is to make it easy for your customers to make a purchase. This document contains several tips that will help you succeed in e-commerce site design.
Written for network operators, this document provides filter settings for the protocols and ports accessible on servers running Microsoft® Windows NT® Server. By controlling protocols and ports, network operators can address specific security issues.
Provides step-by-step procedures for building a clustered data center with high availability.
Describes how to effectively host multiple communities and provides detailed information about how to configure Personalization and Membership (P&M) to support hosting. To help you determine the best configuration for your site, the paper considers multiple configurations.
This article illustrates how to create a simple component with a simple COM object. Necessary steps are then presented to manually add and implement the interfaces required for a fully functional pipeline component. The scope of this article covers converting COM servers so that they expose pipeline-compliant interfaces.
Provides scenarios and practical information on successfully implementing Search in large or small companies.
Most problems with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Service occur when appropriate hot fixes are not applied or when the components are installed in the wrong order. In addition, poor performance or failure can be caused by incorrect configuration of the underlying systems (adding invalid Service Packs or configuring the underlying SQL database incorrectly). This troubleshooting guide can help you avoid these problems.
Explains the architecture of the Membership Directory and the numerous options available for deploying a large-scale directory. The paper includes specific configuration and tuning guidelines for the Membership Directory and its supporting Microsoft® SQL Server™ database.
Discusses how to manage the Membership Directory when a complex structure of users or products is required. The paper describes the internal Membership Directory architecture used to support large numbers of groups, containers, or complex structures. It also describes limitations of Personalization and Membership (P&M) released code, identifies hot fixes to the code to remove limitations, and presents architectural solutions for these demanding user applications.
Provides an overview of how to use the Membership Directory to effectively scale a Web site.
Site Server services can produce a large number of Microsoft® Windows NT® events. Solving the problems identified by these event notifications can sometimes be difficult. This document helps to alleviate these difficulties by providing a list of Site Server service events and suggestions for ways to solve the problems.
Written with UNIX users in mind, this white paper provides an in-depth look at the Microsoft® Windows NT® operating system. The paper discusses Windows NT design and architecture, Windows NT Server management, and the key differences between Windows NT and UNIX systems. The paper also provides descriptions of third-party interoperability packages and porting tools.
This document contains three diagrams of the site architecture of a sample Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition (SS3CE) installation. The diagrams are based on a real Site Server Commerce deployment.
Describes how to design, set up, and administer a very large user base, using the Personalization and Membership (P&M) component of Microsoft® Site Server 3.0. This document is not intended to be an introduction to Site Server, Microsoft® SQL Server™, or Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS). Instead, it outlines the critical issues that corporations or independent software vendors (ISVs) should consider when planning a large-scale deployment of Site Server.
Minimizing downtime is of critical importance to many customers. Hardware failure, data corruption, and physical site destruction all pose threats to a 24-hour operation. This document addresses procedures for reducing or eliminating downtime in a Microsoft® Site Server 3.0 environment.
This paper provides ten tips for optimizing operation of Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition Personalization and Membership services.
Describes how to use the Microsoft® Site Server 3.0 Membership Directory and Active User Object (AUO) to support session state data for Web applications based on Active Server Pages (ASPs), especially across Web farms. It also describes how to configure the AUO to provide access to session state data on a per-user basis.
Microsoft® Site Server Service Pack 2 supplies the updates needed for Site Server 3.0 and Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition to work with Microsoft® SQL Server™ 7.0. This document provides the information you need to use Site Server 3.0 and Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition with SQL Server 7.0.
Written for those who are new to Microsoft® Windows NT® Server, this paper introduces Performance Monitor and explains how to use it.
Describes how to use Webhits, an extension of Windows NT Internet Information Server (IIS), to add hit-highlighting capabilities to search applications created with Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition. Webhits is implemented as an Internet Server API (ISAPI) application invoked during a search. Webhits comes with a ready-made results page, which includes a link to the ISAPI application for each document returned.