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This release was significant to me in two ways.

First, from a personal workflow perspective, my enterprise activitystreams now play in the same space as my personal social networks. Ektron’s Intranet is a First Class Social Network in my mind, because it runs parallel to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn– and not siloed on a webpage on the Intranet. Enterprise activities flow from the Intranet and onto the desktop, giving insight into activities and information that might have otherwise been unnoticed, in real-time, along with activities from personal social networks through LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Fantastic.

Second, ektron’s integration is built on a platform I’ve wanted for a long time now– In 2009, I pleaded with the Lazy Web for an extensible social management client (see Dear Lazy Web: Extensible Twitter Client). Over a year later, Seesmic Desktop 2 launched with an extensibility architecture. It’s the first of its kind and allows developers to build plug-ins for it that extend social services like LinkedIn, YouTube, FaceBook. This is great stuff.

If you’re using Ektron’s eIntranet (v8.02 or later), check out the plug-in to learn how you can use Ektron’s Enterprise Social Desktop integration.

Installing install the IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility on IIS 7

1. Click Start, click Administrative Tools and then Server Manager.
2. In the left navigation pane, expand Roles, and then right-click Web Server (IIS) and select Add Role Services.
3. On the Select Role Services pane, scroll down to IIS 6 Management Compatibility.
4. Select the check boxes for IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility and IIS 6 Management Console.
5. Click Next from the Select Role Services pane, and then click Install at the Confirm Installations Selections pane.
6. Click Close to leave the Add Role Services wizard.

Installing and configuring the Indexing Service is also done through server manager

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
2. In the console tree of Server Manager, right-click Roles, and then click Add Roles.
3. In the Add Roles Wizard, click Next.
4. On the Select Server Roles page, click to select the File Services check box, and then click Next.
5. On the File Services page, click Next.
6. On the Select Roles Services page, click to select the Indexing Service check box under Windows Server 2003 File Services, and then click Next.
7. On the Confirm Installation Selections page, click Install.
8. Follow the instructions in the Add Roles Wizard to complete the installation.

It’s also suggested that you create a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for the Indexing Service, After you install the Indexing Service. To do this:

1. Click Start, click Run, type mmc, and then press ENTER.
2. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
3. In the Available snap-ins list, click Indexing Service, and then click Add.
4. In the Connect to Computer dialog box, click Local computer: (the computer this console is running on), and then click Finish.
5. To close the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box, click OK. The console displays the Indexing Service snap-in.

That’s it. Once you have these steps complete, your Windows 2008 Server is ready to install ektron.

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In the Ektron User Guide, developers work through detailed steps as if building a comprehensive site for an fictional software company. Upon completion, developers will have a complete website for use as a template for other projects. Each technical section implements a specific facet of the site using the Ektron Framework and includes an in-depth explanation of the technology. The content requires no prior knowledge of the Ektron platform, however, developers already familiar with Ektron can use the book as a reference guide. Topics of interest include:

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