Site Server Training Course - Site Server 3 Commerce Edition Development

Site Server Training Course Outline

Overview of Site Server

• What is Site Server 3?
• What is in Site Server 3?
• What Technology does it use?
• Site Server Tools
• Site Server System Architecture

Content Management

• What is a Content Management Site?
• Exploring a sample Site
• Determining and creating content types and properties
• Using View pages
• Adding, approving, and deleting content from a site
• Creating a Content Store
• Customizing a Content Store
• Assigning properties and values
• Understanding the big picture
• Using the Tag Tool
• Using the site vocabulary
• Tagging with regard to other Site Server features

Content Publishing

• Deploying content basics
• Configuring projects
• Using routes
• Scheduling projects
• Deploying content from the client
• Creating projects using Content Deployment Project Wizard
• Rolling back a transaction

Finding Content with Site Server Search

• How Search works
• Creating catalogs
• Crawl, Notification and Database catalog definitions
• Managing catalog builds & Propagation
• Creating search pages & displaying search results

Securing Your Content with Site Server Membership

• Understanding Membership server
• The Membership directory 
• Authentication service
• Active User Objects
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service
• Managing user accounts
• Configuring Membership server authentication
• Setting access control
• How access control works with Membership server accounts

Using Site Server Personalization

• Understanding Personalization concepts
• Using the Membership directory manager
• Delivering customized content
• Rule Builder
• Creating Personalized Web pages
• Delivering Personalized e-mail messages

Analyzing Web Site Content and Usage

• Site Server Analysis components
• Preparing for Analysis
• Analyzing Web site usage
• Analyzing Web site content
• Scheduling activities

Delivering Direct Mail Packages

• Overview
• Configuring Direct Mail
• Using Direct Mail
• Delivering Personalized Mail

Managing Information with Knowledge Manager

• Understanding Knowledge Manager
• Exploring the Knowledge Manager web site
• Creating Experts and Shared Briefs
• The Knowledge Manager Database

Introduction to Electronic Commerce

• E-commerce basics
• Types of e-commerce solutions
• How financial transactions occur in e-commerce
• Security through encryption in e-commerce

Maintaining A Commerce Server Site

• Roles of the site operator and server administrator
• Working with the Server Administration Pages
• Using the Site Manager Pages

Creating a Commerce Site

• Creating a Commerce Server site
• Using the Site Foundation Wizard 
• Using the Site Builder Wizard

Customizing a Site with the MSCS Objects

• The Database & MSCS Storage Components
• The Storefront
• Objects instantiated in Global.asa
• The Include Files

Working with Pipelines

• Understanding Pipelines
• Understanding Pipeline Stages & Components
• Using the Win32 and Web Pipeline Editors
• Pipeline Log files
• The Order Processing Pipeline (OOP): Product, Plan & Purchase
• The Built-in Order Processing Pipeline (OOP) components
• Understanding The Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP): Transmit & Receive
• Built-in CIP Components
• Understanding Micropipes
• Extending Pipelines with Visual Basic

Incorporating Advertising into Web Sites with Ad Server

• Understanding Microsoft Ad Server
• Running & Configuring the Ad Server
• Customers Section
• Performance Section
• Defining Ad Sizes
• Using the Ad Server in your Site
• Global.asa
• Creating Lists of Targets
• Creating an Impression History
• Delivering the Ads

Integrating Microsoft Wallet with Commerce Server

• Understanding Microsoft Wallet integration
• Using the Wallet in your Store
• Browser Compatibility
• The Address Selector
• The Payment Selector

Historical Cross-Selling and the Predictor Component

• The Prediction Process
• The Predictor Component
• How it works
• Collecting Historical Data
• Making Predictions
• The Predictor and Site Personalization

IIS Security and Architecture for your Site

• Development and Production Environments
• Partitioning
• Load Balancing
• Design Considerations
• Hardware Security Overview (Firewalls)
• Software Security Overview (IIS & NT)
• Encryption
• Other General Issues

Site Server Training Course, JB International, London, UK

0800 028 6400