Overview of Internet Information Services 5.0
Overview of Internet Information Services 5.0 |
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FrontPage Server Extensions are a set of programs that you can install with the Windows 2000 operating system on a Web server. You can add them on to the IIS 5.0 snap-in and thus simplify administration. FrontPage Server Extensions can do the following in terms of FrontPage webs (projects containing all the pages, images, and other files that make up a Web site):
Example: When an author moves a page from one folder to another in a FrontPage web, the Server Extensions automatically update all hyperlinks to that page from every other page and from every Microsoft® Office document in the FrontPage web. These updated hyperlinks are then placed directly on the Web server.
For a full description of FrontPage webs, see the Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Server Extensions Resource Kit at http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk.
Example: A FrontPage web administrator can specify which users can administer, author, or browse a FrontPage web.
Example: When users of a FrontPage web participate in a discussion group, the Server Extensions maintain an index of hyperlinks to articles in the discussion, separate discussion threads, tables of contents, and search forms to locate pages of interest.
The FrontPage client and Server Extensions work together to minimize costly file transfers over the Internet, a definite advantage in terms of publishing on a Web site. When the Microsoft® FrontPage® Explorer opens a FrontPage web from a Web server containing the Server Extensions, information about the FrontPage web (such as its hyperlink map) is downloaded to the client machine so that the FrontPage Explorer can display the information. However, the full set of pages and other files that make up the FrontPage web remain on the Web server. A page is only downloaded over the Internet when it is opened for editing in the Microsoft® FrontPage® Editor. This is a very efficient mechanism: An entire Web site can be changed directly on a Web server at the cost of downloading and editing a single file.