http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev is a great starting point.

Fong, You have a few resources available to you: - Migrating from Site Server to Commerce Server 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/techinfo/deployment/2000/wp\_sscemigration.asp - CS2K Product Docs: Migrating the Membership Directory http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/prodtechnol/comm/proddocs/cs2000/cs\_gs\_membershipmigr\_oaak.asp - Membership Migration tool in the tools section of the Commerce Server 2000 SDK Cheers! Colin

There are no restrictions on having them on the same box. The rule of thumb is that for higher demand environments you want to look at seperating applications on to their own servers. Cheers! Colin

Check out the Device Driver Development Kit (http://www.microsoft.com/ddk) docs section on bugchecks. It also has some good strategies for debugging (KD/WinDBG). Cheers! Colin

1. The .NET Framework is available for Win9x/NT/2000/XP, so you can run your apps on all of them. 2. Using a Windows Installer-based setup, you can use the Merge Module that ships with the Framework SDK and it will automatically look to make sure the framework is installed. 3. Don't have to reboot. 4. You can interop with COM components from managed code as well as use unmanaged C++ to create code that does not require the CLR. 5. No 6. Win9x through WinXP Cheers! Colin

Hi, Your DLLs will be able to be used in both Winforms and Webforms. The efficiency of the implementation depends on the how you use the DLLs. If you want to talk about it some more, I would need to know a little more about the application (client and server side) architecture. Cheers! Colin

Mike, What I would recommend is that you look at using Visual Basic for Applications to implement in Excel. There are some great books like: Microsoft Excel 2002 Visual Basic for Applications Step By Step http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/5163.asp Cheers! Colin

Iman, You can purchase Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 if you need it for Windows NT. It has been renamed/improved for Windows 2000 and is now called Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (http://www.microsoft.com/ISAServer). Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Microsoft Services (Canada)

Mike, In your VS.NET Release Candidate that you received at PDC, check out the help for an article called "Security in .NET: Enforce Code Access Rights with the Common Language Runtime". It talks a little about the SAFER initiative and code verification. Cheers! Colin

Web Services are based on open-standard XML/SOAP. Visual Studio .NET automates the translation from the HTTP-based protocol to a class interface by creating a proxy class. As long as your UNIX clients can do HTTP, then they can see the resulting XML from the call and interpret it. I don't have any specifics for UNIX, but it shouldn't be too hard to find information on XML/SOAP calls. Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

The Common Language Runtime offers some great stories around performance (Just-In-Time and pre-compiled apps). As far as commercial applications, it is already being used in some earlier adopters. Crystal Decisions is one of the first out the door with their version of Crystal Reports built on .NET. Expect to see a bunch more out soon now that the Release Candidate is available. Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

The .NET Framework will be available for Windows 95 through XP. Some installation packages such as InstallShield Developer and Wise Installer allow you to package a "merge module" for the .NET Framework, thus ensuring that it is installed on the target machine if it is not already there. MSDN is a great resource and all of the technical content is available free at http://msdn.microsoft.com Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

If you have the Visual Studio .NET Release Candidate (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/beta.asp), check out the following help topic "Walkthrough: Calling XML Web Services from Windows Forms" Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

Paul, We have quite a few CMS projects rolling out here in Canada. I'm going to be doing one next month. Is there a specific area that you are having problems with? BTW... Have you seen the Commerce Server 2002 technology preview? I think you'll find it a little easier to work with. Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

Windows Managment Instrumentation will give you that information. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmistart\_5kth.asp Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)

Michelle, Can you give some more detail on what method you are trying to use? I haven't seen the SDK for the Cisco IP Phone 7960 yet. Cheers! Colin