Ryan Howard's Technical Blog on Community Server, Graffiti, and anything Telligenti

If for some reason you mislocated, lost, or forget your CS administrator password, there is a pretty simple way to recover it. By default CS encrypts all passwords that are stored in the database, well all except one, the admin password. So how do you go about recovering your set of admin credentials...

CS Admin Password Recovery →

I generally blog completely along the lines of, "I'll blog about what I want!" However it's been a while in part because of me being really busy, and the other part because my audience that this blog is geared toward is bordering on entry level CS users and fairly non-technicals, therefore...

What do you want to hear? →

Something I found rather interesting when setting up Windows authentication on Community Server with the SSO module, was with it failing to map user roles. Nothing unusual about installation problems and such, and generally it's a simple typo in the communityserver.config file that causes it to fail...

Single Sign-on Windows Group Mapping Failing →

This morning Rob Howard Officially announced the immediate availability of Community Server 2008: http://telligent.com/blog/archive/community-server-2008-now-available.aspx

Thanks,
Ryan 

As planned, CS 2008 will be released with full group functionality, as you can already see with the beta. However here is a brief outline of how they work and what you can expect. Basically CS grouping creates a small community in a community, so it's like a tiny CS in side your larger CS :-D Each Group...

Introducing CS 08' Groups →

Apologies for the terrible looking blog, I'm still running the beta and have been so busy I haven't had time to upgrade yet. it'll happen very soon!

Yesterday the Telligent Product Team released their latest piece of software called Graffiti. Graffiti is a content publishing tool made simple and easy for everyday users, allowing them to easily publish, manage, categorize and monitor statistics on their content posts. Check it out now at graffiticms...

Graffiti CMS Now Available!!! →

If you want to lock down your site from Anonymous users, but don't want to use some form of IIS security, you can just configure the web.config file to restrict users that aren't actual members....drop this in your web.config, between the <configuration> tags, <system.web> <authorization>...

Locking Down CS from Anonymous Users →

If you're having problems uploading large files to your site, the problem is probably your default .net httpruntime limit. You can change this by editing your web.config file through the <httpruntime> attribute. This attribute has several properties, but what you're probably going to be interested...

Increasing Upload Limit and <httpRuntime> →

If you're upgrading from CS 2.0, you may run into a missing database schema problem when running your upgrade scripts. This is a problem I've had to deal with several times with a few upgrades I was doing, and the schema for the database needed during the upgrade just wasn't there. Kinda weird, however...

CS 2.0 Upgrade Missing Schema →