Robert McMurray : FrontPage Topics

Migrating FPSE Roles Between Servers

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:35:00 GMT

I ran into one of those strange situations the other day where you feel like you've been doing the same thing on your computer at some time in the distant past - kind of like déjà vu for geeks. In this specific case, I was moving some web sites that I am hosting for other people that still use FPSE from an older physical server to a new virtual server that is hosted through Hyper-V. (I'm also trying to convert them all to WebDAV, but that's another story.) Anyway, I had dozens of custom FPSE roles set up for each of those sites that I didn't want to manually replicate on the new server. Unfortunately, FPSE doesn't have a way to migrate the roles from one server to another. All of those FPSE-related roles are kept in local groups with cryptic...(read more)

Life after FPSE (Part 3)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:09:51 GMT

In continuation from on my blog posts on April 17th and April 23rd , today's blog post will continue to examine moving from the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to WebDAV, and today I'm going to address a combination of issues that I've run into and questions that I've received from customers. WebDAV Authoring Rules versus FPSE Roles FPSE had a variety of built-in roles defined that have no replacement in a WebDAV world, but in all actuality most of those roles have no meaning in a WebDAV world. FPSE Roles were built around a set of User Rights, with several predefined roles like Administrator, Author, Contributor, and Browser. Each of these predefined roles contained various User Rights, and you could create your own roles from scratch by...(read more)

Life after FPSE (Part 1)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:59:00 GMT

Today's blog post will be the first in a series of blog posts that I intend to write about my experiences with putting together a Windows Server 2008 machine without using the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) for any web publishing. The main goal of this series is to describe some of the highlights and pitfalls that I have run into while transitioning away from FPSE. Over the years I've seen the users of FPSE broken down into two groups: those that love FPSE and those that hate FPSE. So before anyone thinks that I fall into the category of people that hate FPSE, in this first part of the series I will explain a brief bit of my history with FPSE. My Personal Background with FPSE In late 1995, Microsoft bought a little-known Massachusetts-based...(read more)

FPSE 2002 RTM for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:00 GMT

I'm happy to announce that earlier today Microsoft and Ready-to-Run Software released to web the RTM version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Listed below is the link for the download page for the combined 32-bit/64-bit installation package: FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86706 FPSE 2002 for IIS 7.0 is supported on all of the the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Additional documentation about installing and using this version of FPSE 2002 can be found at the following URL: Installing the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions...(read more)

FPSE 2002 RC1 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:25:00 GMT

Earlier today Microsoft and Ready-to-Run Software released to web the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. This build now includes a combined installation package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Listed below is the link for the download page for the combined 32-bit/64-bit installation package: FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 FPSE 2002 RC1 for IIS 7 is supported on all of the the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008 (Code Name "Longhorn") Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Once again, additional documentation about installing and using this version of FPSE...(read more)

FPSE 2002 RC0 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Earlier today Microsoft and Ready to Run Software released to web the Release Candidate 0 (RC0) version of the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. This build now includes support for 64-bit Windows, and addresses several issues that we've seen since the FPSE release that shipped last April . Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages: 32-bit Installation Package : FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 (x86) 64-bit Installation Package : FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 (x64) FPSE 2002 RC0 for IIS 7 is supported on all of the the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008 (Code Name "Longhorn") Windows Vista Ultimate...(read more)

FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Beta for Longhorn and Vista

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:04:00 GMT

Following up on my FrontPage Server Extensions on Vista and Longhorn blog post from last February, I'm happy to announce that Microsoft and Ready to Run Software have released the first beta version of the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE 2002) for Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" and Windows Vista. The beta version of FPSE 2002 can be downloaded from the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86544 Additional documentation about installing and using this version of FPSE 2002 can be found at the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88546 It should be noted that this version of FPSE 2002 is a beta release and is therefore unsupported. Also, this version of FPSE 2002 introduces no new functionality;...(read more)

FrontPage Server Extensions on Vista and Longhorn

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:20:00 GMT

As most people that have installed IIS 7 on Windows Vista or Windows codenamed "Longhorn" have realized, there are no options to install the FrontPage Server Extensions, leaving the only possibly way to edit your web site that is hosted on a Vista/Longhorn computer is to edit the web site locally using the file system, or to use FTP to upload your files to a remote Vista/Longhorn computer. The FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) 2002 are part of the Office XP system of products. The Office XP system, including FPSE 2002, left mainstream support on July 11th, 2005, according to the Office lifecycle policy. At that time, the FrontPage Server Extensions were removed from the Microsoft Download Center. Office policy is to remove software from the...(read more)

Using WSH to create an off-line backup of a FrontPage-enabled Web Site

Robert McMurray's Blog [MSFT] — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:51:00 GMT

As the old adage says, " Necessity is the mother of invention ". With that in mind, I had a friend drop by my office the other day and ask me a question that started me on another quest for code. What he asked me was whether there was a way where he could create an off-line backup of his web site. Of course, there are whole sections of the industry these days that are devoted to such things, but he wanted a simple way to create a backup on his home or work computer of his web site that is hosted at an ISP. Some time ago I wrote a FrontPage VBA macro for another friend that could be used to automate publishing, but only from within the FrontPage application itself. Since the FrontPage application exists as a COM object, I theorized that I could...(read more)