Professional Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition 1st Edition

by Marco Tabini (Author)

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Microsoft Commerce Server 3.0 (MSCS) is part of Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition. While Site Server encompasses a wide variety of markets, MSCS focuses on the creation of electronic commerce (EC) sites. EC is already a booming market, with over $200 billion in sales projected by the year 2001 (source: Ernst & Young), and thousands of companies, from veterans of the traditional retail chain to Internet startups, are rushing into this business. MSCS has already been successfully used for a number of ventures, including The Gap on-line store, 1-800-FLOWERS, Barnes and Noble, and many others. Professional Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition covers all you need to know to make the most out of this powerful product filling in all the gaps in the documentation and taking discussions beyond the abstract and into the real world.In the book we begin by examining how to determine our system requirements, and how to install and administer SSCE. We then discuss the sample stores provided with SSCE and see how they demonstrate the principles of e-commerce that wil be important in our own sites. Next, we discuss security issues - an essential part of any online store. We follow this with an in-depth look at how we can manage and customize the whole of the purchase process, according to our needs. Next we look at how to use and extend the Microsoft Wallet - and also when we shouldn't use it. We finish by looking at how to optimize the perormance of your store. The book provides strong examples throughout, and contains 3 case studies demonstrating the principles described herein.

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This book is aimed at developers who wish to deploy e-commerce applications on the Windows NT platform. It assumes no previous knowledge of Site Server, but it would be useful for you to have some SQL Server knowledge, have a basic understanding of ASP, and be familiar with IIS and Windows NT.

About the Author

Marco Tabini is an electronic commerce specialist based in Toronto, Canada. He provides custom solution for clients who desire to bring their business online, and writes about electronic commerce and Site Server in various trade publications. He also contributed to the Wrox multi author Site Server Compendium - Professional Site Server 3.0 (Wrox Press, 1999).

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1861002505
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st edition (September 30, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 750 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781861002501
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1861002501
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.75 x 9.25 inches

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Christopher L. Hansen

Better than the rest, but still lacking....

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2000

Professional Site Sertver 3.0 from Wrox is the best book that I have read that explains overall what is going on under the hood of SS 3.0. SS is a complex piece of software that integrates with many other MS Back Office solutions, particulalry IIS 4.0 and SQL Server 7.0. The problem is you will need more information than what they give you here due to the complexity of the toolset and configurations.
Ultimately, you will be interested in buying Wrox's Site Server Personalization and Membership to get a more thorough understanding of this critical component. This is a good example of how in depth the material converage should be for each of SS's components.
Last word: This is a great book for now, but ultimately it will leave you in a pinch for more detailed information as you traverse your installation and configuration. Additionall, it lacks coverage in the design of truly scalable enterprise e-commerce architecture using SS, and the interoperability of third-party modular components, say, for instance, if you want to integrate an accounting system, or a different order fulfillment software, or transcation processing outside of MS Wallet (e.g. Transact).
It would be a huge boon to the people using this if publishers would get on the trail of the hottest technology since NT, and publish some in depth Site Server books based on the modularity of its design. Hoping to encompass all of the feature sets in a 1000 page book will leave you feeling like a kid in a candy store with only a nickle in his pocket. -ch

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Zhen Yin

Good but not excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 1999

It is a good book which introduce SSCE, especially for the beginner. Howerver, it is not excellent (like "Professional ASP 2.0" from wrox).
I really studied something from this book which covers some very important topics such as Commerce Server Objects, Pipeline, and Wallet/Pay Now. However, this author did not want to explain them deeply. A lot of things could be gotten from SSCE document. The first six chapters are nothing. Not only waste your time but also challenge your patient.
Don't expect this book is a bible for SSEC. It is just "second" reference.
Before reading this book, I finished other two books (Pro ASP 2/Pro Site Server 3) from wrox, they are excellent. After that, I read this book, I am really disappointed, because this book did not explain SSCE in details and at the advanced level.
Honestly, only because this book is from wrox and the author did good jobs in others, I gave this book "3 stars". If not, I gave it 2 stars.

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Angel Karantzalis

A brilliant tutorial

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 1999

I'm a Web Developer, dealing with eCommerce without SSCE so far. I've been trying to increase the functionality of our sites, so I reverted to SSCE recently.
The book provides an excellent tutorial, starting from scratch and moving on to advanced issues like personalisation & cross-selling, in a very understandable way. Just a basic knowledge of ASP and IIS issues is required to go through the book easily.
Finally, i found issues covered on the book that we'd never even though of, like cross-selling, buy-now features, security & performance considerations and workarounds etc.
An excellent book !

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ToolmakerSteve

written in 1999 - not relevant to current Commerce Server

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2005

I almost bought this book, before realizing it was written in 1999, for a version of Commerce Server that is no longer relevant to most of us - if you meet a client running Site Server 3.0, try to talk them into updating at least to Commerce Server 2002!

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Tammy Cravit

Decent, but not excellent

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2000

I found this book to be helpful in some respects - it went into great detail about setting up a store, and some of the basics. However, I found that the really tough SSCE pieces -- such as pipelines -- were not covered in enough depth to be useful to me. I have a better conceptual understanding now, but I'm not sure I know any more about how to actually implement a real pipeline for a real site.

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Charles J. Fennimore

Not as good as many say

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2000

I'm working on setting up a corporate intranet web site that will use Site Server primarily for Content Management, Search and Analysis. The book does not adequately explain the process for setting up this type of site. The Membership Server installation is not fully explained and you will probably end up using Access as your database. The example sites that ship with the product are not much help either. The section "Creating a FrontPage Publishing Site" is also lacking necessary detail for this scenario. They try to cover way too much material in one book. Also, there are so many different ways to set up Site Server that you could have a book this size just to cover that topic. Only small sections of this book have been helpful. I'm thinking that when I finish this project I'm going to write my own book.

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Zhen Yin

Very good although could be better!

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 1999

It is very good for anyone that want to know SS/SSCE.
This book really provided detailed materials for SS/SSCE. But it is a littile difficult for the beginners. If you are new one to study SS/SSEC, I recommend you to buy "Site Server Bible..." (I forget that name.) which could give you a good big picture of SS/SSCE in very short time. But this book, you must have sufficient time and interests on SS/SSCE to read it because it is a really heavy and thick book.
Anyway, in the current marketing, this book is the best for SS/SSCE (that's why I give it 4 stars but not 3 stars.)

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Mike Kenzie

Great Examples

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2000

The book has lots of code examples and great documentation on Site Server CE Objects. It is lacking in the features such as ad server and personalization and membership. This is the best book I have found so far on Site Server CE.

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John M. Howitt

Comprehensive but not a lot more than the MS documentation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2000

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A comprehensive book and covers all the basic areas of site server, but... its not much more than the documentation that is available from MS when you install site server and can be got from some of the on-line asp sites. If this one had been titled Starting Site Server, or Site Server Basics then it might have been more accurate.
Compared to the Wrox Site Server P&M book by Robert Howard which gives you stuff you can't get from the documentation then is a no no.
Probably worth it if you don't have the documentation and are trying to get into site server or if you need to read away from the computer.

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