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October 1, 2011 | 
Author I am pleased to announce that today Microsoft has renewed my Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status in commerce server for the year FY11-FY12.
MVP award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others in Microsoft technologies. For past one year, I am actively contributing to the commerce server community. In addition, I am blogger and also assists individuals & companies with commerce server architectural advice and guidance.
This award has given me an opportunity, a recognition and motivation to continue the support to the community. Thanks Microsoft CS team & MVP India team (Abhishek Kant) by providing necessary support to achieve this award.
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Commerce server 2007 product which was released in the year 2006 grab bigger market with in ecommerce space Three weeks before, Microsoft has stopped mainstream support & provided only extended support till 2016 to this product. So, going forward you can’t
1. request to change the product design & features
2. Complimentary support included with license, licensing program & other no-charge support programs.
3. Other non-security hotfixes (available only with purchase of extended hotfix support agreement.
These are the services provided (as part of extended support) for next five years are
1. Security updates
2. Paid support (including pay-per-incident premier & essential support).
Free access to online content such as knowledge base articles, online product information, & online support webcasts, etc. will continue to have.
| Product Released | General Availability Date | Mainstream Support End date | Extended Support End date | Service Pack Support End Date |
| Commerce Server 2007 Developer Edition | 6/16/2006 | 7/12/2011 | 7/12/2016 | 7/8/2008 |
| Commerce Server 2007 Enterprise Edition | 6/16/2006 | 7/12/2011 | 7/12/2016 | 7/8/2008 |
| Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack 1 | 6/22/2007 | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 7/14/2009 |
| Commerce Server 2007 Service Pack 2 | 5/29/2008 | |||
| Commerce Server 2007 Standard Edition | 6/16/2006 | 7/12/2011 | 7/12/2016 | 7/8/2008 |
Click here to go to product life cycle page.
Microsoft will continue its mainstream support to Commerce server 2009 till July 2014,
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This week I faced strange issue while working with Staging server. I have a requirement to run some sql scripts whenever the user runs a staging project. I created a sql script and I created a batch file which executes the sql script using sqlcmd command The batch file and sql script are kept in a folder (c:\commercestaging). When I tested the batch file, it worked fine without any errors. I provided the batch file in the staging project properties.
When tested, staging project execution has encounter some errors.
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Log Name: Application Source: Commerce Server Staging Date: 4/26/2011 9:46:59 AM Event ID: 61223 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Description: Error running the script C:\CommerceStaging\UpdateCounts.bat. Ensure that the script exists and can be located in the path. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Commerce Server Staging" /> <EventID Qualifiers="49152">61223</EventID> <Level>2</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0×80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-04-26T16:46:59.000Z" /> <EventRecordID>2487543</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer></Computer>he <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data>C:\CommerceStaging\UpdateCounts.bat</Data> </EventData> </Event> |
I troubleshooting the issue and at the start, I believed it is problem with the staging project but I was wrong. My batch file has below content.
| sqlcmd -s myserver -i myscript.sql |
This script got executed without error from command prompt but when I ran from staging server, it is failing. I figured out that when I execute the script from staging, staging process is not taking the sql script relative path. I changed the script as follows and the staging projects started working as expected.
| sqlcmd -s myserver -i c:\commercestaging\myscript.sql |
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While importing a valid catalog xml file using catalog manager, the application start throwing Microsoft.CommerceServer.InvalidImportTokenException exception. In order to fix this exception, we need to recycle COM+ application and web service . Here are the steps to do it.
1. Go to Start –> Run –>dcomcnfg to open the Component Services MMC
2. Expand Component Services –> Computers –> My Computer –> COM+
Applications
3. Right-Click the "Commerce Server Catalog Import Host" COM+ application and
select "Shutdown" and then right click and select “Start”. 
4. Open a command prompt. Enter "net stop w3svc" – Note: This will stop the IIS process and clear out
the Application Pools, ensure that server can be disabled
5. After this command completes, enter "net start w3svc"
If we try to import the xml again from catalog manager, we may not encounter the above exception. If it doesn’t fix then we may need to reboot the server.
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Today Microsoft commerce server team has released Commerce Server 2009 R2 (March 2011 CTP ) is now available for download.
To download the CTP:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212469
To download the Install Guide:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212468
To download the Readme:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212467
To download the bits:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212466
This is a public CTP. If you are a TAP customer and wish to go live, a separate ‘Go Live’ EULA must be requested and will be approved on a case by case basis. Support for this CTP remains through the product team using the Microsoft Connect system to capture issues just as it has been for previous CTPs (Note: This CTP software will stop functioning on December 31, 2012.).
What’s new in this CTP:
The following are new features that have been introduced since the Commerce Server 2009 R2 September 2010 CTP release:
· Deployment scripts and sample configurations for two-tier and three-tier deployments.
· Support for rich Internet applications (RIA).
· Business data updates to live Web sites.
· Multiple orders from a single shopping cart.
· Updated solution files and extensions to Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer.
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