I recently reviewed this sites Robots.txt file for Community Server 2007 and noticed it needed some changes. Here's the updated version. # Robots.txt file for http://domain # User-agent: * Disallow: /App_Browsers/ Disallow: /aspnet_client/ Disallow: /ControlPanel/ Disallow: /Downloads/ Disallow:...

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Last night, I upgraded this site to Community Server 2007. The upgrade took a while as this site requires changes to the CS codebase and other tweaking. Other than that, the upgrade went OK for the most part and there are a couple of issues to work out. With this upgrade comes three new Community Server...

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You be the judge. Compare the anonymous image from Community Server to a picture of Rob Howard. It looks like his silhouette....

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Up until an hour ago, this site was using Snap to render web page previews of images and links that linked to external sites. However, this caused the following JavaScript error when using the roles modal in Control Panel > Administration > Membership > Browse People / Find People. Line: 63...

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I've updated the Community Server 2.1 shipping blog skins with ad support for SP1. They can be downloaded here ....

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I've created the following Community Server jobs: BlogActivityNightlyJob - Executes the cs_BlogActivityNightlyJob stored procedure. UserActivityNightlyJob - Executes the cs_UserActivityNightlyJob stored procedure. This elimates the need to run those stored procedures as SQL Jobs. You can download StrongCoders...

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I've created a simple contact form for Community Server that can be downloaded here. To see it live on this site, click here

By default, the web.config file of Community Server allows any registered user access to the Control Panel, including Setup.aspx and 2 pages hidden from the Control Panel UI that have functionality. To prevent registered users from accessing these files and the Control Panel, change web.config in /ControlPanel...

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You've probably noticed the ads on my blog. By default, Community Server doesn't have built-in ad support in blog skins. You can easily add it by wrapping AdPart controls around the BodyTemplate control in LayoutTemplate.ascx, which is located in the root of each blog skin folder. The default...

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 RTM. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 RC1. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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There's a couple of extra steps I take to tweak Community Server out of the box. Tweak 1 Go to Control Panel > Administration > Membership > Manage Roles (Manage All Roles in CS 2.1). Add a new role named ResourceOwner and assign it to any user that is the owner of a resource like a blog...

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Community Credit now has an add-on to submit your points from blog and forum posts from Community Server. Download it here.

A while back, I used to have my blog located at http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/ryan before I moved it to here. The biggest challenge in doing so was making sure all of my existing links redirect to the links on this site. Here's how I did it. 1) Download Madgeek.RedirectModule.dll and place it in...

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 to take advantage of the fixes in CS 2.1. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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Just updated this site and thought I'd share this with everyone. From the download page at CommunityServer.org: "Telligent recently discovered a serious security vulnerability that can enable an attacker to obtain unauthorized security privileges in Community Server 2.0 for ASP.NET 1.1 / 2.0. It is highly...

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I was getting annoyed by MSNBot trying to index /reader/default.aspx. So, I decided to deploy a Robots.txt file. In case anyone wants a template for a Community Server Robots.txt file, here it is. I don't know what the Downloads folder is used for (other than what I found at this thread ), so I've included...

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Today I installed two modules on this site: ScottWater.CS.Modules and Telligent's FreeTextBoxWraper replacement assembly for CS v2.0 . With Scotts' module the site now has the Share this post links in the blogs, module notifications for events like pending users on the admin end, and HTML code rendered...

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I discovered an issue with the LuxLegend2 blog skin regarding comment subscriptions and ratings. I fixed it as well as added some other stuff. Visit the download page for LuxLegend2 for more details and to download the updated version (which this blog is using)....

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I just created an add-on for Community Server 2.0 that enables a Terms Of Service. To see it in action, you can visit the Terms Of Service on this site. The Terms Of Service add-on has a double-click editing feature. Download Terms Of Service Add-On...

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I had an aweful hard time trying to find out how to get Moderate > History to appear in the forums section of Community Server 2.0. It is kind of burried. To get it to work, you have to do the following: 1) Goto Control Panel > Administration > Membership > Posting Settings 2) Set Enable...

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I just updated the LuxLegend CS blog skin so that it works with CS 2.0 (tested on RC1). It's the theme that my blog uses. If you like it, you can download it from the files section of this site. LuxLegend2 Blog Skin Update: I've added screen shots on the download page in the Files section for LuxLegend2...

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