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**** 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.)
what's new?
Probably the biggest enhancement since version 2001 is MCMS's tight integration with Visual Studio.Net. From inside an ASP Net...