Ways to use Commerce Server 2000 and Commerce Server 2002 Business Desk Applications over an Internet connection (315756)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Commerce Server 2000
- Microsoft Commerce Server 2002
This article was previously published under Q315756 SUMMARY As it is stated in the Commerce Server 2000 online
documentation, "It is strongly recommended that your client computer have a
high-speed connection to your Business Desk application." In this
context, a high-speed connection is a local area network (LAN) connection.
Typically, this type of connection is 10 megabytes (MB) or faster. You must
have a high-speed connection because large amounts of data can be transmitted
across the network, depending on the functions that you perform and the data
that you query, such as in Analysis reports. Two reasons that you must have a
high-speed connection to use a Business Desk application over the Internet are
the following:
- By default, in Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS), the security of the Business Desk application is set to Windows
Integrated authentication or Windows NT Challenge/Response
(NTCR) authentication. By default, this type of authentication only
works on an intranet.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer processes an address that
contains a period (.), such as in an IP address or in a DNS name, and an Internet
address, and then Internet Explorer applies settings from the Internet security
zone to the address.
Although a Business Desk application cannot run over the
Internet by using the default client settings and the default server settings,
the "More Information" section in this article discusses a different method
that you can use to work around this issue. Note Microsoft will use commercially reasonable efforts to support
this workaround. If you cannot gain access to a Business Desk
application over the intranet, Microsoft recommends that you install and use
Terminal Services (either on a computer that is located on the local intranet
or on the computer that is running Commerce Server). By using Terminal
Services, you can connect the terminal server (through remote access or PPTP,
for example) to the same network as the Commerce Server-based computer. When
the terminal server is on this network, you can gain access to a Business Desk
application through the intranet. Aside from configuration settings,
Business Desk clients must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later and
the Microsoft SQL Server client tools installed. See the Commerce Server 2000
online documentation for the specific software requirements.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 7/7/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbinfo KB315756 |
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