After a brief overview of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, the
status of construction and installation is described in the first part of the
note. The second part of the document is devoted to a discussion of the general
commissioning strategy of the CMS experiment, with a particular emphasis on
trigger, calibration and alignment. Aspects of b-physics, as well as examples
for early physics with CMS are also presented. CMS will be ready for data
taking in time for the first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN in late 2007.Comment: Talks given at the 11th Intl. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron
Machines BEAUTY 2006, Oxford (UK), September 200