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Ektron CMS400.NET Helper Utilities

(Ektron CMS 400.Net) by Jason Skowronek on 03/01/2010

In hopes to get these utilities in the public (and search engine) limelight, I am posting the content of the Utilities.doc file of the CMS400.Net program folder. If you are not familiar with these (as I myself haven't even taken advantage of all of them yet), I would urge that you at least read over this so you are familiar with them and what they do.

Enjoy!

Utilities Root Programs

  • AssetWorkerSetup.msi - Installs a service to allow a user to place DMS assets in a directory to be uploaded to the CMS Database.
  • CMS400SDK_Setup.exe - Installs Ektron Plugins so users can add there own Extensions to be used in the workarea.
  • CreateFolderInfo.exe - This updates the folder structure for searching and is only run for users upgrading to 6.0 or greater.
  • DBUpgrade.exe - This is used only for users upgrading from versions prior to CMS400 5.0 as well as any CMS300 product versions. This will be run automatically as needed during the CMS400 database upgrade setup.
  • EktronNotificationService.exe - This executable will install the Ektron Notification Service. Installing the base installs this service for you.
  • EncryptEmailPassword.exe - Tool that encrypts a user's email password for the smtpPass key in the web.config file.
  • SharePoint_To_CMS.exe - Integrates CMS400 with SharePoint Portal.
  • UpdateGAC.msi - This updates the EktronBasePlugin.dll in the Windows\assembly directory for use with the Ektron Extensibility Server service.
  • vcredist.msi - This is run on 64 bit machines only and is used for Esync.
  • WebAlerts.exe - Installs Web Alerts so users can send emails to users signed up for alerts on a specific topic.

BigIntUtility Directory

The BigInt utility updates the Code-Behind files for a website from Ektron 32 bit API's to Ektron's 64 bit API's and has to be done in this version of CMS.

BuiltinAccountReset

BuiltinAccountReset.exe - This will reset your CMS400 user \ password to Builtin \ Builtin incase you forget the Username and Password used login to the workarea.

CMS Uninstaller

CompleteUninstall.exe - This executable will wipe your machine clean of all ektron products. Users can choose to remove a specific website or all websites as well as the application directory. (Use with caution. Once run files will not be able to be restored)

DMS Directory

Dms400encryptpassword.exe - Allows a user to encrypt a password to be used to encrypt password in Workarea > Settings > Configuration > Asset Server Setup > Password. This password must match the one used for the EKT_ASSET_USER on the webserver.

EWSUpdates Directory

This directory contains a backup of the Ektron Windows Service 3.0 as well as the older Ektron Window Service file updates for users who upgrade.

Icons Directory

This directory holds all the icons used for the start menu shortcuts.

iFilterPack Directory

This directory contains the PDF Filter msi's that are installed for dms dragging and dropping.

MergeCatalog Directory

MergeCatalog.exe - This executable is used during the sitesetup.exe to merge indexing catalogs. If a user has more than 3 sets of catalogs than it will begin to merge any new sets of catalogs that are added during future site installations.

MultiSiteInstall Directory

Multisite.exe - This executable is used when a user wishes to setup a multisite environment. It will copy the necessary files from an existing site to directory for your multisite website. It will also configure IIS for the multisite.

PasswordUpgrade Directory

PasswordUpgrade.exe - This executable is used during the sitesetup. If a user is upgrading there website and it's from before version 7.65 this exe will run and update all of your user password encryptions to the new password encryption values.

QLXFilter Directory

The QLXFilter.dll is copied to the System32 directory during the base installation. This is used for the searching feature in the CMS.

ResourceFiles Directory

This directory holds all the resource files for easy access to the non-binary versions of the resource files.

SiteSetup Directory

cms400sitesetup.exe - Runs the CMS400 Site Setup install.

Database directory

Holds all the SQL and Oracle database scripts needed to create the CMS400 database.

CMS400SiteSetup directory

Holds all the files that run the CMS400 Site Setup.

Logs directory

Holds all the installation logs. Everytime an installation is run a new log is created and everything that occurs during the install is printed in the log.

Software Directory

  • Microsoft WSE 3.0msi - This will install WSE 3.0 which is needed for CMS400.
  • SearchConfig Folder - This folder contains the SearchConfigUI.exe that indexes all of your content.
  • SecurityConfigurator Folder - This folder contains the SecurityConfigurator.exe. This creates the certificates used for esync to allow users to have Esync talk from the stage machine to the production machine and vice versa.
  • UrlAliasing Folder - This folder contains the UrlAliasingUpgradeCmd.exe. This run during a website upgrade and if the site is older than version 7.60. This runs updates for UrlAlias functionality.

SQLGenerator Directory

  • SQLGenerator.exe - This executable is used to produce a sql script of your database.

Support Directory

  • WSPathChecker.exe - This exe will check all of your websites to make sure the WSPath in each web.config don't match one another.

XMLConfigWriter Directory

This folder contains dll's used in indexing content and the search feature.

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