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• Community Server Email Settings for Exchange 2007

  I looked through the Exceptions Reporting section of my website today and saw a whole bunch of "EmailUnableToSend" exceptions! So apparently people out there who have tried to contact me through my Blog Contact Form have been unable to do so... Posted Jul 23 2008, 01:51 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Exchange, SMTP, Email

• Apostrophe in Community Server Blog Title

  Having an apostrophe in my blog title caused RSS users to receive a wacky title, "Matt Williamson&#39s Blog". Thanks to this post by Adam Toth , I was able to clear that up. Replace the apostrophe in your blog title with the character below... Posted May 30 2008, 02:57 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, Community Server, CS

• Not Upgrading to Community Server 2008

  I upgraded Bunker Hollow last night, from this current version of CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960) to the latest version of Community Server 2008 (4.0something). The update was a little confusing... you have to first download and install a... Posted May 20 2008, 09:57 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Update, 2008

• Community Server wwwStatus

  Community Server has a feature called wwwStatus which by default, removes the "www" prefix from your url when you visit the site by redirecting you to the same page, just minus the dubdubdub. The reason for this is to improve Search Engine Optimization... Posted Mar 04 2008, 03:24 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Config, CS, DNS, wwwStatus

• Restoring Community Server 2007 from Backup

  I have two scripts that run each morning at 4:00am to backup my Community Server website. One of them creates a full backup of the database and the other makes a copy of the \Web directory. Last night, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Community... Posted Dec 29 2007, 12:53 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Backup, Restore

• Community Server - Adding the Control Panel Link for New Users

  A good friend just joined my site and I created a blog, a photo gallery, and a download gallery for his own personal use. I assigned him the owner of each. Then, having created a non-admin account for myself, I realized that the instructions to give him... Posted Dec 12 2007, 06:11 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Control Panel, User Role

• CS2007 Private Message Inbox Notification

  Community Server 3.0 code to notify users of new private messages in the inbox when they are logged in. Posted Nov 01 2007, 03:23 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, 3.0, Community Server, CS, Private Message, Notification, Code, Inbox

• Extending the "What's New" Time-Limit in Community Server

  I haven't written a new blog post in a while and I noticed that my "What's New" section has withered away to only two articles. Since I won't be updating this site daily and I don't have anything else on my homepage, I want my... Posted Oct 30 2007, 02:10 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, 3.0, Community Server, What's New, CS

• Creating a Custom Favicon

  The favicon is the little image that appears in the address bar of your web browser. Community Server comes with a default favicon (the tree-man icon) in the web root directory. To use your own, just replace the default with an icon named favicon.ico... Posted Oct 16 2007, 10:29 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, Community Server, Internet Explorer, 7, IE, Favicon, FireFox, 2.0

• Community Server File Upload Error

  So the first time I try uploading a file to the downloads section of my CS site, I get an error stating "Oops! Something went wrong." I'm sure if I had tried the upload locally on the server I would have gotten a more descriptive error but... Posted Oct 13 2007, 11:19 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, Community Server, Error, Upload, Config, File

• Remove Content From Community Server Home Page

  I only want to display "What's New" and "Who's Online" on my homepage. I first tried deleting the rest of the content by double-clicking the area and erasing the html. This doesn't work, CS simply replaces it with the original... Posted Oct 11 2007, 03:59 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, Community Server, Page, Home

• Community Server - Remove Photos from What's New

  Forums and blog posts, the real content of my website, are being overrun on the What's New section by all the photos I've been adding. The CS Forums have good instructions to do this, as usual, which I found here . To keep any information from... Posted Oct 01 2007, 10:44 AM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, 3.0, Community Server, Remove, Photos, What's New

• Customizing Community Server 3.0

  Since I'm running IIS (6.0) and Sql Server (Standard 2005) I was looking for a free blogging application to run on my webserver. Community Server Express fit the bill perfectly. The installation process was easy and straight forward. After only a... Posted Sep 28 2007, 03:12 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Themes, Customization, Dark Theme, 2007, 3.0, Community Server