Features in Standard and in Enterprise Edition

Empowers business users to create and publish rich Web content by means of their Internet browsers.

Centrally manage branding, navigation, layout, and corporate publishing standards through authoring and presentation templates.

Empowers business users to create and publish rich content by using Microsoft Word and then submit it for approval and publication to an MCMS Web site.

Integrates Content Management Server with both Microsoft Office® SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Streamline the publishing process by creating publishing tasks that automate repetitive steps.

Ensure content is properly reviewed and approved prior to publication by developing multi-step role-based workflow customized to meet your business needs.

Ensure content is always published on time and is never out of date by automating your publishing and archiving schedule.

Streamline the content deployment process by enabling business users to safely publish content in the development environment, the staging environment, or the Web production servers.

Enable users to perform ad hoc audits by automatically storing content revisions and page versions.

Ensure maximum flexibility by storing content as individual content objects—separated from the code and design elements of the Web site—in Microsoft SQL Server™. Storing the content as objects makes it possible to dynamically generate content, enabling personalization and enhancing flexibility.

Dynamically assemble pages to personalize content based on user profile, click-through analysis, Internet browser, device, and language preference.

Switch templates quickly to present content in different styles and layouts to support diverse sets of browsing devices.

Easily share content across multiple pages within the Web site.

Build content management applications quickly and easily by using Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET, which integrates with Content Management Server 2002 projects, template manager, solution explorer, and the drag-and-drop server controls gallery.

Capitalize on the full power of Microsoft .NET–connected software in content management applications by means of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Build scalable Web sites with ASP.NET output caching support and Content Management Server 2002 extensions. Use existing authentication models or integrate custom models by using ASP.NET authentication and Content Management Server 2002 extensions.

Build applications faster with pre-built content management developer controls.

Publish content quickly and easily through multiple presentation templates to multiple locations or Web sites.

Take advantage of the power of the Content Management Server 2002 development environment by using the Content Management Server 2002 Controls Software Development Kit (SDK) to learn to use pre-built controls and building custom controls.

Extend the integrated deployment solution for highly-customized deployment operations using the managed deployment API.

Support source code versioning, branching, archival, and team-based development as well as industry-leading source code management tools such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe® to manage application code.

Benefit from tight integration with SQL Server for scalable and reliable content storage.

Integrate with Microsoft Commerce Server to build content-rich sites with integrated e-commerce functionality, content profiling, personalization, and Web site analysis and reporting tools.

Integrate with Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server to build content-rich sites with integrated search, document management, and knowledge worker portal services.

Integrate with Office to empower business users to create and publish rich Web content directly from Word.

Integrate data from legacy systems by using Microsoft BizTalk® Server and over 300 adapters.

Build end-to-end solutions quickly with pre-built production quality solution sites.

Build a content management solution right the first time with prescriptive best practices from Microsoft for building e-business sites.

Take advantage of Microsoft's global network of implementation partners and support staff.

Achieve maximum page serving performance by caching of both static and dynamic content.

Manage content in XML format with XML Placeholder Objects.

Support for content styling through standard Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheets.

Support for content validation through XML schema definitions (XSDs).

Support for exposing content and functionality within the system as standard XML Web services.

Optimized management of multiple sites on the same Web server or highly distributed Web sites with support for delegation of certain administrator capabilities to Channel Managers.

Full support for Microsoft Active Directory® services.

Integration scripts take advantage of Application Center deployment capabilities and provide system administrators with a deployment solution that supports scheduled and automated deployments, incremental deployments for maximum performance, and transactional deployments for roll-back support in case of hardware failure.

Import and export content and templates for deployment and replication between servers.

Easily create and manage the site map, templates galleries, roles, and permissions in the Site Manager.

Configure your servers remotely and securely right from your browser.

Extend the workflow to integrate tightly with your existing business processes and workflow systems using the workflow hooks event model.

Extend the development environment by customizing pre-built controls or adding your own custom controls.

Extend the publishing environment to support your existing business processes and integrate with existing publishing applications.

Extend the integrated deployment solution for highly customized deployment operations using the managed deployment API.

Extend the properties on content objects for content integration with other data systems.

Supports unlimited number of users for authoring

Supports multiple sites through host headers

Allows for scaling up and scaling out.