Advanced Administration of Office Server Extensions

Administering FrontPage Server Extensions

Microsoft Office Server Extensions (OSE) is installed on a Web site on a Web server with one of the following configurations:

• Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) on a computer running Microsoft Windows NT Server

  – or –

• Personal Web Server on a computer running Microsoft Windows NT Workstation

OSE includes Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions, and OSE Setup automatically installs or upgrades FrontPage Server Extensions on the Web site.

A Web site that has FrontPage Server Extensions installed is called a FrontPage-extended web. If a FrontPage-extended web also has OSE installed, it is called an OSE-extended web. IIS supports multiple Web sites on a single computer, so it is possible to have multiple FrontPage-extended webs or multiple OSE-extended webs on an IIS computer. A FrontPage-extended web can have one or more subwebs below the root web. However, OSE can be installed only on the root web.

Using the following tools, you can perform several OSE maintenance tasks to administer FrontPage Server Extensions:

• Fpsrvadm

  Provides the complete set of FrontPage Server Extensions operations. Use Fpsrvadm from the command line or in batch files. Fpsrvadm must be run on the server.

• FrontPage Server Extensions Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in

  Administers FrontPage Server Extensions on Microsoft Windows NT through a graphical user interface (GUI).

• Fpremadm

  Administers FrontPage Server Extensions from a Microsoft Windows-based computer other than the computer on which the Web server is running. Remotely performs all the operations that Fpsrvadm performs.

• FrontPage Server Extensions HTML Administration Forms

  Install and administer FrontPage Server Extensions remotely in a Web browser on any computer connected to the Internet. The forms are copied to your Web server during OSE Setup.

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Administering a Web server remotely

You can create a new FrontPage-extended web, change user permissions, and do other administrative tasks when you do not have local access to the Web server on which you have installed OSE.

You can use FrontPage Server Extensions HTML Administration Forms, and the command-line utility Fpremadm to administer FrontPage Server Extensions remotely from any computer connected to your intranet or the Internet. However, remote administration can be less secure than direct administration.

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Selecting the right tool for the task

The following table identifies the administrative tasks you can perform on an OSE-extended Web, and the FrontPage Server Extensions tools to use for each task.

Toolbox   The FrontPage Server Extensions Resource Kit contains additional information about administering FrontPage Server Extensions, including details about configuring settings for a FrontPage-extended web and about communicating between the FrontPage client and FrontPage Server Extensions. For information about installing the kit, see FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions Resource Kit.