Feature

Description

Profiles

Extensive and extensible profile management give community members tools for personalizing their experience in the community as well as allowing members to build online identities. Profiles can be extended with custom properties.

Roles

Role management is central to security within CommunityServer. Members are added to roles, and roles are granted permissions. There is no limit to the number of roles supported.

Groups

Groups allow the community manager to add members to shared areas of functionality and specify avatars (images) associated with the groups.

Single Sign-on

Single sign-on ensures that CommunityServer can easily be integrated with any existing application solution. Membership creation can then be made to be a seamless process allowing single sign-on visitor’s accounts to automatically be created when they visit the community.

Fully localized / personalized Date/Time

All content, dates, and times support full localization and dates can be configured to display in the format most familiar to the community member.

Registration and Sign-up

CommunityServer supports 4 options for registration:

• Automatic – prospective members create an account and the account is available immediately.
• Invitations – prospective members must be invited (by email) to join the community clicking on a validation link.
• Email Validation – prospective members apply to join and receive an email containing a validation link to be clicked on.
• Admin Approval – requires prospective members to be directly approved by the community manager.

Private Messages

Enables members within the community to send private messages to one another.

Contact Options

Enables members to share contact information, such as email, and then CommunityServer allows for blind-email (email address of the recipient is not visible unless he/she replies).

Application Security

Each application within CommunityServer exposes its own set of permissions that can then be used to configure how visitors will access the applications managed by CommunityServer.

Premissions

With a unique permissions model, control is given to the community manager to manage and delegate nearly all application capabilities. These unique permissions meet the needs of the most complex permission delegation requirements of nearly any community.

Moderation

Extensive moderation tools give moderators tools for managing and approving all content that gets published. Moderation tools include: moving, approving, deleting, editing, and more. Web discussion moderation allows for approval and work-flow before content is published.

Security Best Prcatices

All of the Microsoft recommended security best practices are implemented to ensure the application protects user data as aggressively as possible.

Delegation Model

Permission and capabilities such as moderation can be delegated allowing the community manager to trust other members of the community with various tasks.

Auditing and Event Logs

Full auditing of all moderation tasks provides accountability along with event logs to capture all events that occur.

Member Eviction and Banning

Member eviction and banning capabilities are built-in to ensure members that misbehave can be removed from the community.

HTML Filters

Content that members publish within the community is passed through an HTML filter that determines which HTML tags are allowed in the incoming content. These tools can limit the types of HTML tags that are used by community members and enable the community manager to harden the application from cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).

Per-User Moderation Options

Moderation of members can be enabled or disabled, i.e. a member can be trusted and their content is no longer forced through the moderation work-flow of the community.

Rule-based Auto-moderation

All incoming content, regardless of whether moderation is enabled or not, is passed through the rules based auto-moderation engine. This rules engine helps capture SPAM and other suspicious content automatically.

Avatar Management

Member’s avatars can be overridden and disallowed by the community manager.