Programmatically Enumerating Installations of the FrontPage Server Extensions
I had a great question from a customer the other day: "How do you programmatically enumerate how many web sites on a server have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed?" Of course, that's one of...
View ArticleUsing WSH to create an off-line backup of a FrontPage-enabled Web Site
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...
View ArticleFrontPage Server Extensions on Vista and Longhorn
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...
View ArticleFrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Beta for Longhorn and Vista
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...
View ArticleFPSE 2002 RC0 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)
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....
View ArticleFPSE 2002 RC1 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)
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....
View ArticleFPSE 2002 RTM for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (x86/x64)
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...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 1)
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...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 2)
Following up on my last blog post, today's blog post will discuss some of the highlights and pitfalls that I have seen while transitioning from using the FrontPage Server Extensions to publish web...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 3)
In continuation from 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...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 4)
In continuation from my previous blog posts on on the subject of migrating from FPSE to WebDAV, today's blog post will address a combination of issues that I've run into and some implementation ideas....
View ArticleMigrating FPSE Roles Between Servers
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...
View ArticleFrontPage Server Extensions and UNC Content
How to get the FPSE2002 AllowUNC feature to work with Windows Server 2008I've had a few questions about getting the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE2002) AllowUNC feature to work with Windows...
View ArticleFPSE and Form Results over Email (SMTP)
I have seen many issues over the past few years when customers try to use the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) to send form results via email, and a recent post to forums.iis.net was enough...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 5)
We recently hosted a group of customers from a large hosting company here at Microsoft, and as the meeting was getting started everyone in the room was introducing themselves to the other attendees. As...
View ArticleLife after FPSE (Part 6)
In this latest installment on my series about configuring your server for hosting without the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE), I'd like to discuss a couple of WebDAV best practices that I like to...
View ArticleManually Localizing FPSE 2002 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista
The FrontPage Server Extensions from Ready-to-Run Software, Inc. (RTR), are available and supported only in the English language. But that being said, the localized language files for FPSE 2002 are...
View ArticleUsing FrontPage 2003 to Bulk Rename Images Using VBA
Despite the plethora of other tools and editors that I use to create websites, there are times when I simply have to dust off my copy of (gasp!) Microsoft FrontPage 2003. It may be a dinosaur, but...
View ArticleUsing FrontPage 2003 to Consolidate Images in a Common Folder
A few months ago I wrote a blog titled Using FrontPage 2003 to Bulk Rename Images Using VBA, in which I shared a VBA macro that renamed all of the images in a website to a common file-naming syntax. In...
View ArticleFTP Clients – Part 14: CuteFTP
For this next installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at Globalscape’s CuteFTP, which is available from the following URL: http://www.cuteftp.net/ CuteFTP is a for-retail...
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