Following on from Outbreak of wordpress, it must be contagious and WordPress MU in a Corporate environment

WordPress MU is now a Live service inside BT, for all employees to use !

The platform is currently a single, yet rather large linux VM running WordPress MU 1.3.3 with the LDAP auth plugin into the Corprate AD.
as the need and used grows this will be fronted by a cookie insert load balancer and more apache/php instance

• The front page includes some blog guidelines and a few a few MU plugins
• Recently update blogs
• New blogs
• Top Bloggers (quantity not quality)
• Global Tag cloud

We have also …

• Disabled the self registration system, as by default wordpress MU gives you a blog name based on your username( a meaning less 9 didgit number in our case).
• Enforced logon for comments on all blogs, and modified the PHP to prevent anyone changing that
• Pre loaded the WP_users table with ALL employees, so no registration is required for a User account (require for comment), LDAP to the AD deals with password policies
• User Blog are (Currently Manualy) created using the email address prefix, replacing “.” with a “_” for john.smith@ get a blog called john_smith
• Group Blogs what ever name they wish (within reason)

This make an intersting read

HOW TO: wordpress on IIS7 with some extras too

http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-WordPress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx

My ldap enabled enterprise bloging platform at “the firm” is picking up momentum, lets hope it scales properly, it has been built on the same 3Tera grid technology as wordpress.com But only time will tell

Only one little snag, guess who has to do a blogging with wordpress demo at the Xmas meeting

I am currently looking at Enterprise RSS technology. What a mine field ! No one knows what they want, let alone how to do it.
So I look at it like this.

1. Central  location to discover internal and external RSS feeds
2. RSS feed consumption stats
3. Easy to use
4. Easy to configure
5. Flexible

Newsgator seem to provide all of the above. However with the small problem of a proprietary clients which then have to be deploy to 80,000-100,000 desktops (in my case), and you can guarantee that a large portion on the community (mainly the geeks) won’t like the client. So what you really need is a RSS Proxy server,  that will consume, cache and aggregate RSS feeds and republish them as standard a RSS or ATOM feed, which can then be consumed by the users favourite RSS client (outlook 2007, IE7, Vista, Feedreader etc etc )
Only found one so far http://gregarius.net/ which is open source PHP, I have budget and can buy a solution but can’t find one. 

Are my requirements that bizarre ???

A corporate version of FEEDBURNER woudl be perfect