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Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007

Sat, 20 May 2006 07:42:51 GMT

The Microsoft Commerce Server team has announced that the Release Candidate of Commerce Server 2007 is available. This will be the new name of Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 beta. So check it out! :)

The following notes are released:

Note that with this Release Candidate, a name change to Commerce Server 2006 to Commerce Server 2007 has been implemented. Microsoft decided to rename Commerce Server to 2007 to be more in sync with the Office 2007, Exchange 2007 and Windows Vista wave of product releases and our general branding guidelines. This is a name change only and does not affect any features, support, or anything else.

The CS2007 RC contains the English-only, Enterprise Edition for x86 and x64 platforms; other languages and editions will be available at RTM

The CS2007 RC will expire on September 30^th, 2006

The CS2007 RC is for testing purposes only, and is not supported by Microsoft in production environments except for authorized TAP customers

This release does not include an updated Starter Site, that will be available in the RTM timeframe

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Commerce Server: An error occurred while accessing the Business Desk. Contact your system Administrator

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:54:34 GMT

I installed locally commerce server 2002 sp3 on Windows 2002 in a domain. When I try to connect to BizDesk as local or domain administrator, I got the following error:

"An error occurred while accessing the Business Desk. Contact your system administrator."

It seems that in IIS 6.0 Active Server Pages (ASP) was prohibited. Just go into "Internet Information Server Manager" and look under "Web server extensions". Change the "Active Server Pages" to Allowed.

MSCS_Admin database missing when starting Commerce Server Manager 2002

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:56:13 GMT

I just started with Microsoft Commerce Server and my first problem was that after installation of the product, including the service packs and feature pack 1 my MSCS_Admin database was not found in SQL Server.

After googling i found out that this is easily resolved by doing the following:

Create a database with the name MSCS_Admin
Open the SQL Query Analyser in this new database
Start the admin_schema.sql script found in the folder c:\Program Files\Microsoft Commerce Server 2002
Make sure that the login credentials are correct by starting the Commerce Server Manager and right-click properties on the "Commerce Server Manager" node.