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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / General / February 2008Intranet Blog\Forum software for business use
I’m interested in setting up an Intranet blog/forum application for work. The idea is to have people in the office blog about projects they are working on and problems they are facing. We will still need to have a site moderator that approves the blog entries prior to posting. And we would also like to be able to control the access level of the viewing user to determine which posts they may view. I have been developing asp.net apps for several years with IIS…I have a good idea of how I would implement if from scratch…but I would like to avoid reinventing the wheel. My schedule is pretty tight at work and I’m trying to find application template to avoid creating this site from scratch I have heard that PHPBB is a popular choice…but I don’t have any experience with it. I would also like to be able extend the application with custom asp.net controls if possible. I have heard that CommunityServer.org might be a good option but it is only free for non-commercial use. Our software budget is tightening at work so adding new costs is not going to be popular when we don’t have an absolute need. Someone had mentioned share point however I wasn’t sure this would really get me a head start on this application. I have team addition for developers so I suspect that I may already have access to a good tool for the job. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Jeff > I'm interested in setting up an Intranet blog/forum application for work. > The idea is to have people in the office blog about projects they are working [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Jeff You can try WSS (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, it is a free feature of Windows 2003) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101726561033.aspx For approval in WSS you would need to create a workflow. Thanks Alexey! > > I'm interested in setting up an Intranet blog/forum application for work. > > The idea is to have people in the office blog about projects they are working [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > For approval in WSS you would need to create a workflow. Hi Jeff, If you do not plan to adopt any 3rd party blog application, I agree with Alexy that the windows sharepoint service(3.0) is a good one for building intranet portal which can give you powerful functions such as creating per-user based site, document library , access control ..... Currently WSS 3.0 is a free component which can got in the following site: #Download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx You can find more info about it in the tech center of it: #Windows SharePoint Services TechCenter http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/default.aspx Sincerely, Steven Cheng Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead ================================================== Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/managednewsgroups/default.aspx#notif ications. Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. 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Issues of this nature are best handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/support/default.aspx. ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -------------------- >Thread-Topic: Intranet Blog\Forum software for business use >thread-index: AchwzLydkiEpDf8VQty3DL0NdGt6kw== >X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 72.224.109.172 >From: =?Utf-8?B?SmVmZkRvdE5ldA==?= <JeffDotNet@newsgroups.nospam> >Subject: Intranet Blog\Forum software for business use >Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:50:02 -0800 \ >I’m interested in setting up an Intranet blog/forum application for work. >The idea is to have people in the office blog about projects they are working >on and problems they are facing. We will still need to have a site moderator >that approves the blog entries prior to posting. And we would also like to >be able to control the access level of the viewing user to determine which >posts they may view. I have been developing asp.net apps for several years >with IIS…I have a good idea of how I would implement if from scratch…but I >would like to avoid reinventing the wheel. My schedule is pretty tight at >work and I’m trying to find application template to avoid creating this site >from scratch I have heard that PHPBB is a popular choice…but I don’t have >any experience with it. I would also like to be able extend the application >with custom asp.net controls if possible. I have heard that >CommunityServer.org might be a good option but it is only free for >non-commercial use. Our software budget is tightening at work so adding >new costs is not going to be popular when we don’t have an absolute need. >Someone had mentioned share point however I wasn’t sure this would really get >me a head start on this application. I have team addition for developers so >I suspect that I may already have access to a good tool for the job. > >Any advice would be greatly appreciated, > >Jeff Steven, My development box is a P4 1.7Ghz With 512MB of RAM It appears that WSS 3.0 will not run on my development box. It should be fine on my production box. Would I be able to develop on my laptop running XP? Do you have any other recommendations? > Hi Jeff, > [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > > > >Jeff > My development box is a > P4 1.7Ghz > With 512MB of RAM That is woefully inadequate... > Do you have any other recommendations? Get a decent specification development machine - a CoreDuo with at least 2GB RAM...  SignatureMark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net > Steven, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Do you have any other recommendations? If you would have more RAM (at least 2Gb) you could virtualize Win2003 on your XP box. I'm using WMware for that purpose. 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