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After their announcement that they were going to have some significant downtown yesterday.  We have awoke this morning to a new revamped site and much greater prominence for the Professional edition of Dotnetnuke.

Way to go!

For anyone that is not located in the Florida Area or who like me live in the vast wasteland and can’t get to these type of events, Will Strohl has provided online viewing today through his the Orlando DotNetNuke User Group site.

This link below provides a list to the sessions for the day.

The Mighty Blog - The personal web site for Will Strohl - 2009 Florida Code Camps Coming - Back to Back

This link provides access to viewing of the tracks as they are presented.

http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/ODUGLive.aspx

Well it appears as if the anticipated update to fix issues with 4.9.1 is slowing making it’s way down the line to us.  It was apparently upgraded at the main DotNetNuke site and is now being tested probably at it’s heaviest for now.  Lets hope no major issues are found and hopefully we will also see that long awaited update for 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 as well.

More information can be found by following the link below from Scott Willhite:

Dogfooding DNN 4.09.02 - DotNetNuke Site Updates & Changes - DotNetNuke

With the release of the latest versions of DNN, there was the introduction of a new host module, the Dashboard.  This module was designed for the new Professional version of DotNetNuke. It’s main purpose is to give information about the server that the framework is running as well as some important information for anyone trying to provide support to another person.

The base module provides us with the following 6 tabs of information:

1. Web Server
2. Database Server
3. Host
4. Portals
5. Modules
6. Skins

Web Server

The web server information that is provided gives us lots of useful information for finding out key important information

• OS Version: This will tell us what version of the operating system we are running on and what service packs are installed with that OS
• Web Server Version: Each different IIS version has their own requirements on how things work and knowing the version can make life much easier when supporting someone.
• .NET Framework Version: The version of the .NET Framework that the web site is running under.
• ASP.NET Identity: This provides us with the identity of the user that ASP.NET is running under.
• Host Name: The name of the server that the site is being run on.
• Physical Path: The actual path to the root of the site on the server.
• Site Url: This provides us with the URL that is used to access the site with a browser.
• Relative Path: This is the virtual directory path.
• Server Time: The current date and time on the server.

This takes care of the first part of the module.  I will get part 2 of the post out tomorrow which will cover the Database Server section of the Dashboard.