Intranet Blog\Forum software for business use

[JeffDotNet]

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

 

[Guest]

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

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.

 

[Steven Cheng]

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



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[JeffDotNet]

Thanks Steven!

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



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[JeffDotNet]

Thanks Alexey!

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.

 

[JeffDotNet]

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?

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

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...

 

[Guest]

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?

If you would have more RAM (at least 2Gb) you could virtualize Win2003
on your XP box. I'm using WMware for that purpose. It's also possible
to do this using Microsoft Virtual PC and/or VirtualBox.