Commerce Server Blog

Staging Deployment – Security Considerations

ravikanth — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:55:03 +0000

In last two articles, we have seen what is commerce server staging and how it works. Check below links for more details. http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/introduction-to-commerce-server-staging-2/ http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/how-commerce-server-staging-works/ In this article, we will see what are the security (access privileges ) consideration we should consider to staging service accounts. Microsoft CS team has provided some recommendations on this. I [...]

Pipeline Editor displays registered custom pipeline components as unknown in 64 Bit version.

ravikanth — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:07:45 +0000

If you are using commerce server 2007/2009 on 64 bit machine and used pipeline component registration wizard to register pipeline components and if we try to open 64 bit pipeline editor, you may not see your component rather you will see "<<unknown>>” message. This issue occurs because Pipereg.exe cannot recognize 64-bit architecture. To resolve this [...]

How commerce server staging works

ravikanth — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:14:00 +0000

In the previous post, I explains the core CS staging concepts and if you have not yet viewed , click below link for more detail. http://microsoftblog.co.in/commerceserver/how-commerce-server-staging-works/ In this article, we will learn how staging works. When you install commerce server staging (Note: staging is part of CS enterprise version), a service named “Commerce Server Staging” [...]

Steps to extend payments in Commerce Server 2009

ravikanth — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:33:55 +0000

I have seen couple of post in MSDN forums asking help to extend payment methods in commerce server. In CS2007, the process is simple but in CS2009 and if you are using SharePoint extensibility kit then the process is much more complex but can be easily achievable. Note that current extensibility kit only supports credit [...]

Introduction to Commerce Server Staging

ravikanth — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:02:58 +0000

Commerce server staging (in short CSS), helps us to transfer and update business data and web site content from one environment to another environment. In the nutshell, CSS provides following functionality. Remotely administer servers and projects. Replicate web site content or business data over LAN and through firewalls (TCP port 507). You can deploy content [...]

Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information

ravikanth — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:31:26 +0000

After getting latest code from TFS, I compiled and installed the latest build assemblies in GAC and from then my commerce server application stopped working. I was getting error “Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information”. The stack trace is shown below. [ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable [...]

Commerce server staging throws Remote authorization failed to server. Ensure the service has access to this server.

ravikanth — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:15:19 +0000

After periodic password update to our application service account, the staging environment stopped working. When I right click and start the project, the process keeps on aborting and in the event log, I am getting “Remote authorization failed to server hl-stage-web. Ensure the service has access to this server.” error. With the error description, I [...]