The Icon Bar: General: Corporate blogging
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monkeyson2 (18:20 28/8/2009)
Steve (19:27 28/8/2009)
andypoole (19:28 28/8/2009)
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Phil Mellor |
Message #111083, posted by monkeyson2 at 18:20, 28/8/2009 |
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What software would you recommend for a company blog?
Here's the requirements:
User account integration with LDAP/Active Directory
Use SQL Server database server
Run on Windows Server
Posting approval process (not essential)
Customisable HTML templates
It would need to support many authors. Anti-spam, comment approvals, automatic e-mails and suchlike would be great too.
Open source, PHP, etc. is all fine.
I'm thinking Movable Type is the way to go, but I don't have any experience of it or any other platforms (such as WordPress). What do you think?
EDIT: Looks like we'd need an enterprise licence for MT - doesn't completely rule it out, but it does mean convincing the powers that be 
EDIT2: Active Directory plugins for WordPress  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/active-directory-integration/
[Edited by monkeyson2 at 19:38, 28/8/2009] |
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Steve C |
Message #111088, posted by Steve at 19:27, 28/8/2009, in reply to message #111083 |
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I'd go for WordPress, - but then I've not really used anything else, so I could be missing out on things!
Recent versions now have the capability to download and apply updates for plugins and WordPress itself at the click of a button (saving a lot of messing about with unpacking files and updating databases etc.).
If you want the 'Pretty URLs' (or Permalinks) you'll either need to be using Apache, or IIS 7. If not, then you'll be stuck with page addresses such as http://www.somesite.com/?p=123 rather than http://www.somesite.com/our_page.
Stephen
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Andrew Poole |
Message #111089, posted by andypoole at 19:28, 28/8/2009, in reply to message #111083 |
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I use wordpress for a blog I look after. Once you get into the way it does stuff, it's nice. There's plugins to make it fit your criteria above.. Although I've never tried Active Directory integration since I've no use for it.
The only bit I'm not sure of is SQL Server. The requirements page suggests it only works with MySQL and Apache.
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Steve C |
Message #111090, posted by Steve at 19:33, 28/8/2009, in reply to message #111089 |
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The only bit I'm not sure of is SQL Server. The requirements page suggests it only works with MySQL and Apache. IIS is fine (see my edit above!) but it looks like you're right about SQL Server. Someone has apparently tweaked a version to work with it, but the comments on their blog suggest other folk haven't had the same success.
Oh, and for installing PHP on IIS 7, there's a good site here, with a page specifically about Wordpress.
[Edited by Steve at 20:37, 28/8/2009] |
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