John Ostlund and Alex Weinert tell you everything you need to know about the new Site Server 3.0 membership directory in this long but detailed white paper for developers. To make this easier to read online, we've published only the first part of the paper in HTML, and made the full document available for download in Microsoft Word format. This article by Drew DeBruyne describes how to build customized solutions with Site Server Knowledge Manager, a Web application built on the push, personalization, and search services. This article by Mike Cheng explains how Site Server 3.0's full-text indexing works, using ODBC, Active Server Pages, SQL Server, and Access. It also provides troubleshooting tips, and demonstrates advanced indexing tasks.
Developers can use it to build electronic-commerce applications.
This article by Anthony Chavez explains how applications can track information about users who visit your site. This article by Gene Chellis explains strategies and techniques for hosting several separate user communities in a single, shared Membership Directory. Arnold Blinn, a Microsoft architect, discussed the Commerce Server Architecture in an April 6 Dev Talk Live presentation on Audionet. You can view his slides and hear an online recording of his talk . To learn where Site Server fits into Microsoft's family of Web-server products and technologies, check the Web Workshop's server road map .