Microsoft Commerce Server TechNet Resource

Learn how Commerce Server 2002 provides features for user profiling, personalization, catalog management, order processing, globalization (multiple languages and currencies), and advanced online business analytics.

This paper focuses on applying Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to Internet services.

Learn how to create a usage profile to assist with Site Capacity Planning.

Learn methods for estimating your web site capacity and performance so that you can better understand your hardware requirements and the user experience.

This white paper describes how to import Web log file data from a computer that is not running Commerce Server 2002, external catalog data, and external profile data into the Commerce Server Data Warehouse.

This paper provides a conceptual overview of the caching architecture in Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2002.

This paper provides detailed instructions for deploying Commerce Server 2002 in a secure configuration. It assumes you are performing a new deployment, and therefore instructs you to install and configure each server in this sample deployment.

This white paper focuses on Web-based security vulnerabilities. It includes content from the excellent book, Writing Secure Code, by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc.

This white paper provides performance analysis and transaction cost analysis (TCA) for the Commerce Server 2002 Product Catalog system.

This white paper provides a performance analysis of the Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Direct Mailer and List Manager system.

This white paper provides performance and scalability analysis of the Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Business Internet Analytics system.

This white paper provides performance analysis and transaction cost analysis (TCA) of the Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Content Selection Framework (CSF), pipelines, and core objects.

The white papers referenced on this page explain the concepts and methodology and demonstrate how the Commerce Server 2002 team conducted performance analysis on sample sites.

This white paper provides performance analysis and transaction cost analysis (TCA) of the performance and scalability characteristics of Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 User Profile Management (UPM) Service.

This white paper provides performance analysis and Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) for the Commerce Server 2002 Authentication system.

This white paper explains performance analysis and transaction cost analysis (TCA) for the Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Web site called Site Verification Test (SVT).

This white paper describes a successful effort scaling out Active Directory using the Commerce Server UPM partitioning feature at a load of millions of users.

Locate support resources such as how-to articles, download details, and troubleshooting documents that have been reviewed and approved by the Microsoft Commerce Server team.

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