Community Server on my mind

A less painful way to upgrade to a Service Pack

Have you not yet upgraded your Community Server sites to Community Server 2.1 SP 1, because it seems to be to much work, and you don't want it to go wrong and just haven't got the time right now to do I properly? Service Packs are an important way to Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The Secrets of CSModules

Listen to this article Whether you are a developer, or a Community Server admin that haven't got much experience of .NET Development, I believe you should benefit from this article. This article gives you an overview of what CSModules are, how can you Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Wikipedia Link Module

Just installed Ben Tiedt's Wikipedia Link Module . A CSModule that lets you add highlighted, clickable words to your posts, that when clicked shows a little pop-up with an excerpt on that word from Wikipedia. I have played with this module before, but Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Adding more buttons to TinyMCE in CS

Community Server 2.1 uses TinyMCE as the build-in editor for posting in forums, blogs etc. You can choose in your profile if you want to run the Standard or Enhanced implementation of TinyMCE in CS. Figure 1: Content Editor Options in your profile Even Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

External Tag Links CSModule

A member of my Swedish CS community has been using Wordpress for his blog for a while. Now he's planning to move to Community Server . One of the things he used with Wordpress was a control that let him add kind of external tag links to the bottom Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Visual Studio Template for CSModules

I created a Visual Studio 2005 template for my own use when creating CSModules. The template contains the base line code that you need for creating a basic CSModule, and some basic instruction on what you need to get going. In case someone else would Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Thoughts on a Job for Max age of user passwords

As I've mentioned before, I have been working a bit on a CSJob for initially forcing users to change passwords after a specified amount of time. And I thought I'd share some ideas around it this article, and see if it would be a usable CSJob. Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Getting into Context with your CSJobs

While working on an add-on that forces users to change their passwords in CS, I stumbled upon a problem that I've seen others also have had problems with. To be able to get a context for certain operations/calls within the CS API. For example to get Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

CSModule for Mindmanager Maps

I've been quiet for a couple of days. So what have I done? Nothing? Well, I have done something! I have been continuing my work on an add-on for forcing users to change passwords after a admin configurable period. It's currently a CSJob, which Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Updated the MSN Soapbox CSModule to ver. 1.61009.1.0

A quick note that I just updated MSN Soapbox CSModule to a new version. Got a comment from Michael S. Scherotter that he had got a mail from MSN that they've updated the embed code for better performance. So I have updated the CSModule to use the Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Filtering out Text Part functionality from Comments

When I posted my update regarding the SoapBox CSModule this weekend, I must have been a bit confused. I said I made 2 changes, but realized now that one of those changes was already in the first version. What I mean is the functionality to set a custom Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Videos on the CS Home Page

After writing the article " CSModule for MSN SoapBox " I got a question on how to put up a Soapbox video on the Home Page of Community Server . And since the last 2 articles has been about Soapbox and CS, why not have one more? Tell me if it's Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Setting up the SDK in VS 2005

Dave mentioned this in his Monday daily news post , but I thought it was worth repeating and also correcting Dave's statement a bit. In the daily news it says Dave Stokes released a document detailing the installation of Community Server 2.1. It's actually Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Tranquilize your blog and inbox

Many of us in the Community Server Land have been talking about blog spam comments, spam rules etc the last weeks. One thing left out, at least from my own blog, is an issue that comes with these spam huntings, and that I got asked in the comments of Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The NewUserDefault CSModule of the Alabaster package

A few weeks ago, the Community Server MVP's released a package of CSModule's , which we called Alabaster. It contained a couple of CSModule's developed by a couple of us MVP's. My contribution to Alabaster was a module called NewUserDefaults, which I Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!