Community Server periodically makes service packs available to users to enhance the evolving Community Server functionality. The service packs are available on http://get.communityserver.com. You should periodically check this site to find out if you have downloaded the latest service packs.
You will need to determine which version of Community Server you are running when you want to upgrade Community Server or install the latest Community Server service pack.
After you successfully deploy, install, and activate the SharePoint Integration for Community Server 2008 MayPreview, you will need to provide some additional information in order to begin taking advantage of the newly installed features.
This procedure describes the manual setup of a new database for Community Server 2008 with ASP.NET 2.0.
You should back up all of your existing files before launching the Community Server 2008 upgrade tool.
You cannot upgrade directly from Community 2007 to Community Server 2008. If you do not have Community Server 2007.1 installed, you must first upgrade to Community Server 2007.1, then from 2007.1 to 2008. To upgrade to Community Server 2007.1, go to http://get.communityserver.com/download/cs20071up.
Blogs enable people to simply and easily publish content and the commenting feature of blogs enable readers to immediately interact with that content sharing their own perspectives and ideas.
Community Server runs exclusively on the Microsoft Web application platform. This enables Community Server to focus on being the best-of-breed solution rather than being limited by common denominators across multiple vendors’ web application platforms. Community Server has the following requirements...
An author multiple authors publish their content on an individual blog page and can receive feedback from their readers through comments. The blog page differs from aggregate page, which shows blog entries from across multiple blogs or from mirrored content. You can find out more about blogs by clicking here.
Community Server provides a robust blogging application with all of the required features to build, grow, run, and manage both small and large blogging communities.
The Community Server forums application provides an innovative and simple to use web discussion system for super-charging communities with interactive discussions.