Maintaining Office Server Extensions

How to Configure Web Discussions on an OSE-extended Web

The Configure Web Discussion Settings page has several options for you to specify a variety of settings for Web Discussions. You access the Configure Web Discussion Settings page from the Microsoft Office Server Extensions (OSE) Administration Home Page.

To open the Configure Web Discussion Settings page

1. If you are logged on locally to the Web server with OSE installed, click Start, point to Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server Extensions, and then click OSE Administrator (HTML).

   – or –

   If you are connecting remotely to the Web server with OSE installed, enter the following URL in your Web browser:

   http://site_name/msoffice/msoadmin/

   where site_name is the name of the OSE-extended web.

   When you are connected to the OSE Administration Home Page, you see the name of the server you are connected to at the bottom of the configuration and management pages.

   Note   You can view the OSE Administration Home Page only with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later.

2. Click Configure Web Discussion Settings.

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Enable or disable Web Discussions

On the Configure Web Discussion Settings page, you can enable or disable the Web Discussions feature. You can also disable Web Discussions on documents that are not located on the OSE-extended web.

To enable or disable Web Discussions

1. Next to Web Discussions are, click On to enable Web Discussions.

   – or –

   Click Off to disable Web Discussions.

2. Click Submit.

To enable or disable Web Discussions on remote documents

1. Next to Allow Web Discussions on, click Documents located on this server only

   – or –

   Click Documents located anywhere on the Web.

2. Click Submit.

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Delete discussion items

On the Manage Web Discussions page, you can view a list of all documents on which users are maintaining Web Discussions, and then you can delete specific discussion items or all of the discussion items on a document. You can also select when you want discussion items automatically deleted. For example, you might specify that all items older than 15 days should be deleted from a document. When deleting discussion items, note that top-level items continue to exist until all their component items are deleted.

To delete a specific discussion item in a document

1. On the OSE Administration Home Page, click Manage Web Discussions.
2. Select the document in the list box, and then click View to open the document in your Web browser.
3. Point to Explorer Bar in the View menu, and then click Discuss to view the discussion items in that document.
4. Click the Action button at the end of the discussion item you want to delete, and then click Delete.

To delete all discussion items in a document

1. On the OSE Administration Home Page, click Manage Web Discussions.
2. To delete all discussion items for a document, select the document, and then click Delete.

To configure automatic deletion of discussion items

1. On the OSE Administration Home Page, click Configure Web Discussion Settings.
2. Select the Enable automatic deletion of Web Discussion items checkbox.
3. In the Delete Web Discussion Items after text box, type a number for the quantity of time.
4. In the drop-down list, select day(s), week(s), month(s), or year(s).
5. Click Submit.