Okay, so I have officially jumped on the Community Server bandwagon. A number of people I respect have spoken highly of it, so in my usual tradition of jumping into uncharted technical waters with both feet, here we are. Actually, where we are (e.g. you seeing this post) is the results of about two weeks worth of work.
The actual data migration from .Text was relatively painless, just download and use this conversion tool. There were a few pains to map over the users, set the blogs, but in the global scheme of things, this was the easy part.
Community Server is just that, a piece of software for communities. For single blog sites, like this one, it can be painful. There are many good posts on the CS forums on how to do this, but I'm not going to direct you there. It ended in great deals of pain, and things not feeling quite right (and that takes a lot for me to say that :) THE place to go is to this one and only page. All thats needed is:
- Install CS 1.1 and its service pack 1.
- Create a blog and gallery (if desired), or simply rename the existing ones provided.
- Hit the magic page and follow its instructions to the letter, and you are done!
One piece of research that I also concluded is that you may use two different installations of CS against a single database. This is great for me, as I have this blog and are considering moving some of my DotNetNuke sites over to CS. Not sure I am ready to do that, as I continue to find DNN much easier to work with. That is just likely due to milage; I've been working with it nearly 2 years now.
Now comes all the fun of tweaking and customization!