Differences between Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

ID: Q235027

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions

SUMMARY

The Office 2000 Server Extensions and the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions are both pieces of the Office Workgroup Web infrastructure. The FrontPage Server Extensions are a subset of the functionality of the Office Server Extensions. It is important to know the differences between the two types of tasks each of these Server Extensions perform and how they work together. This article describes when to use the Office Server Extensions, as opposed to using only the FrontPage Server Extensions.

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FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions

The FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) provide the following features:

Publishing: The FrontPage Server Extensions allow you to publish entire FrontPage Web sites and/or Microsoft Office documents to a FPSE or OSE Extended Web server.

Web Site Management: With the FPSE and the FrontPage client application, you can manage your FrontPage Web content remotely. This enables you to keep track of hyperlinks, subwebs, and other content.

Administration of Permissions: As a FrontPage Administrator, you can remotely configure permissions and manage users on your FrontPage Webs.

Office 2000 Server Extensions

In addition to ALL of the functionality of the FrontPage Server Extensions, the Office 2000 Server Extensions (OSE) provide Microsoft Office 2000 users with the following basic features:

Discussions: With the OSE, you can create threaded discussions in Microsoft Office documents (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and any HTML files that are stored on an OSE Web server. The discussions themselves are stored on an OSE web server. The documents being discussed can be stored anywhere on the intranet or Internet.

Subscriptions and Notifications: The Office 2000 Server Extensions enable users to subscribe to a document or folder. When the subscribed document or folder changes, you receive a notification in e-mail through the OSE Notification Server.

Publishing: You can publish Microsoft Office documents (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint) to OSE Extended Web servers. This functionality is actually provided by the FrontPage Server Extensions (described above).

NOTE: It is important to have the collaboration functionality installed in order to use the features described above.

For more information on how to install the Microsoft Office 2000 publishing and collaboration features, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to Install Office 2000 Publishing and Collaboration Features

For information on how to install the Office Server Extensions, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

How to Install Microsoft Office 2000 Server Extensions

NOTE: Installing the Office 2000 Server Extensions from the Office 2000 Premium Edition compact disc also installs the FrontPage Server Extensions. There is no separate installation for the two types of Server Extensions. To install only the FrontPage Server Extensions, you must download the latest version from the following Internet location:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/languages/fp/default.asp

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