This document details the steps required to install and test the SDL Tridion Content Manager 2011 server on a Windows 2008 R2 platform, with a SQL Server backend.

• Part 1: Setting up the VM
• Part 2: Preparing Windows
• Part 3: Setting up the Databas…

Tridion Dynamic Linking API requires a PageURI value to be used when resolving dynamic links. This TCMURI is used when calculating the the proximity of a potential target URL relative to the current Page (where the link appears on).

Tridion Dynamic Linking API requires a PageURI value to be…

This little module provides information about extensions of the Content Delivery caching mechanism.

Running CCS in debug mode will write all logging output by CCS to a file.

Specify the file to log to as part of the cd_tdf_conf.xml. The TDFramework uses the Tridion…

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