Community Server

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Community Server
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Section Overview

• Install Community Server
• Demo Installing Community Server Manually
• Configure Community Server
• Demo Provisioning Community Server
• Best Practices

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Installation Requirements

• Current Version 1.0
• Requires
• Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows 2003
• Internet Information Services (IIS) installed
• .NET Framework V1.1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000

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Install Community Server

• Unzip the code to a directory
• Give Network Service account permissions
• Create a virtual directory pointing to the
  content
• Create an empty SQL database and user account
• Assign permissions to db_securityadmin,
  db_ddladmin, db_datareader, and db_datawriter
• Edit Web.config for SQL connection string
• Enable the installer
• Browse to http//www.domain.com/vdir/Installer

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Installing Community Server Manually
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Provisioning Community Server
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Licensing

• Community Server Licenses
• Enterprise is free for members of Windows Web
  Hoster Program
• Source code available (but cannot be
  redistributed)
• Updates until March 2007
• www.telligent.com/hoster/default.aspx

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Next Steps

• Get up-and-running with Community Server
• www.telligent.com/hoster/default.aspx
• Visit the Windows Web Hoster Program site
• Custom development and service-level agreement
  (SLA) support
• sales_at_telligent.com (Rob Howard)

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Appendix
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Community Server Baseline Performance Test

• Overview
• Scenario 2,000 websites on 1 front-end web
  server with databases on 1 back-end SQL server,
  both running Windows Server 2003 SP1. 400
  websites were configured per application pool,
  with a total of 5 app pools.
• ASP.NET v1.1 ran in Medium Trust and we removed
  browserCaps and mobile support. IIS 6.0 had
  memory-based recycling enabled for app pools to
  ensure the system never reached unhealthy limits
  (private bytes700MB, virtual bytes1300MB) and
  an increased kernel request queue (5,000).
• Each test ran for 12-hours.

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Community Server Baseline Performance Results

• Community Server Results
• Traffic Distribution 95 traffic 100 sites, 5
  traffic 2,000 sites
• Pages requested 4
• Requests-per-second 722
• Pages-per-second 52
• Total HTTP requests 31,234,368
• Average working set 10MB
• Average response time 80msec
• Hardware Front-end had (1) 3.6Ghz HT processor
  and 4 GB RAM, back-end had (2) 3.6Ghz HT
  processors and 4 GB RAM

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Admin Features

• Moderation
• Move, Edit, Delete
• Audit history of posts
• Require approval
• Force user moderation
• Auto-pruning algorithm
• Track by IP address
• Lock/unlock topics
• Pin/Unpin topics

• Administration
• Create, Update, Delete forums
• Nest forums (Parent/Child)
• Manage User Accounts
• Super granular access control
• Lock/Unlock topic
• Read only forums
• Force user re-login
• Enable/Disable all features
• Word filters Smilies
• Allow/Deny duplicate posts

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Security Trust

• Secure by default
• Group level permissions
• Runs in .NET medium trust
• Trustworthiness
• Users email is private, never published
• No Newsgroup style spamming
• Control what users can do
• Editable censorship filters built-in on posts
• Moderators can approve/delete/edit/move posts

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Identity Reputation

• More than just an email address
• Users can opt-in to profile themselves
• View any users post history
• Users rewarded for participation
• Groups allow for further identification
• Anonymous
• View and read public forums
• Post and reply in some forums

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Designed for Hosting

• Partitioned Data Model
• Enable multiple installs in a single DB
• User base can be shared or isolated across sites
• Shared admin tool constrained for current site
• Other features
• Easily add-value with customized skins
• Easily add-value with new language packs
• Skins / languages are additive

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Community Server Technical Overview

• Rich knowledge management and collaboration
  platform
• Modular construction
• Online configuration content mgmt by role
• Communities
• Skins for Forums, Blogs, and Photo Galleries
• Provider model allows pluggable services
• Data access
• Membership
• html edit, etc.

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Community Server System Architecture

• Designed for performance
• Architected for multi-server implementation
• Highly tuned advanced caching logic
• Original database model reviewed by SQL Perf.
  Team
• Best of breed design
• Extensible/skinnable presentation layer
• Business Logic Layer
• Provider based business tier

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Community Server System Architecture

• Proven features / Designed for .NET
• Membership, Role Management, Profile
• Site Navigation, Security Controls, much more
• Now implicit features of ASP.NET v2.0
• Add-ons
• Platform is design to enable add-ons
• Satellite functionality that is commercial
• Example NNTP Server

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Systems Architecture
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What is Community Server 1.0

• 1.0 Platform is feature parity integration
• Common User, Roles, and permission system
• Shared database structures
• Shared/common code paths
• Build a solid foundation
• Enabled add-ons for satellite functionality
• Full source code included
• Both Commercial Community versions

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Offline Support - Email

• Today
• Community Server sends email notifications
• Subscribe to post or forum
• One-way message, cannot reply
• Future
• Bi-directional messaging
• Users receive email and reply
• Posts are added into forums system

Prototyped
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2-way Email Support
Send E-mail
Email Queue
Add Post
Forums Mail Gateway
In development
Parse E-mail
Reply
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Licensing

• Licensing Options
• Flexible licensing to encourage adoption
• Community License
• Community License (free)
• Has usage restrictions, but is fully functional
• Commercial Licenses
• Single Instance / Website 179
• Professional 899
• Enterprise (free)

Link to windows web hoster program
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User Features
Installation
User Experience

• Copy/paste installation
• Web-based installer
• Remote installation

• Upload and/or remote avatars
• Personalized information
• Track participation
• Track read/unread messages
• Online status

User Interaction
User Interface

• Rich HTML editor
• Send e-mail notifications
• Edit and delete messages
• Private messaging
• Private forums
• Who is online
• Quoting

• Modular personalized skins
• Install by adding new directory
• Flexible formatting options
• Modular language support
• Localization friendly