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1 Tech Note 211 Configuring Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions All Tech Notes and KBCD documents and software are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. See the Terms of Use for more information. Topic#: Created: April, 2001 Updated: March, 2003 Introduction This Tech Note outlines how to manually reconfigure the Microsoft Server Extensions, and provide a utility to do the Task automatically. Note You cannot publish Suite Voyager windows via SSL. SuiteVoyager uses Microsoft Front Page 2000 Server Extensions to manage publishing security when using the Win-XML Exporter. The portal installation program automatically configures these extensions for the default location of SuiteVoyager under the InetPub\wwwroot directory, and adds the installing user as the administrator of these extensions (SuiteVoyager Roles do not govern the rights to publish). If, however, you choose another location for the portal files, it is likely that the installation program will not have the rights on that file share to automatically grant publishing rights. In this case you must configure the extensions manually. Another reason to perform the manual configuration would be to give other users, other than the installing administrator, the rights to publish converted XML windows to the portal. To learn more about this system, see the Microsoft documentation for Front Page Server Extensions. Installing the Front Page Extensions Please follow these steps to configure the extensions manually: 1. After the installation of the SuiteVoyager portal, open the Internet Services Manager (Start/Programs/Administrative Tools). 2. Expand the node tree and right-click Default Web Site (Figure 1). 1/10

2 FIGURE 1: SELECTING THE DEFAULT WEB SITE 3. Select All Tasks, then click on Remove Server Extension. 4. Uncheck the Preserve web meta-information option and click OK (Figure 2): FIGURE 2: THE REMOVE SERVER EXTENSIONS DIALOG BOX 5. When finished, right-click the Default Web Site again and select All Tasks. 6. Click Configure Server Extensions. A wizard (Figure 3) appears that will walk you through the process of configuring the extensions. 2/10

3 FIGURE 3: THE SERVER EXTENSIONS CONFIGURATION WIZARD 7. Click Next. Not selecting the Create Local machine Group option will Advance you to Step 8. The wizard will ask to create three Windows Groups for Administrators, Authors, and Browsers (Figure 4). The names of these groups will default to the machine name plus the group name. These are the NT user groups that you will be able to assign users to for publishing rights: 3/10

4 FIGURE 4: CREATE NT USER GROUPS 8. Click Next. FIGURE 5: SERVER EXTENSIONS CONFIGURATION WIZARD 9. Click OK. The wizard will ask for a user name or user group to assign to the role of Web Administrator (Figure 6): 4/10

5 FIGURE 6: USER NAME OR GROUP PROMPT 10. Enter the account information and click Next. The wizard prompts for mail information (Figure 7): FIGURE 7: THE WIZARD - ASKING FOR MAIL SERVER SETTINGS CONFIGURATION If you do not have an SMTP mail server, you can skip this step. SuiteVoyager publishing does not require this feature. You may select the No. I'll do it later option (Figure 8 ): 5/10

6 FIGURE 8: THE WIZARD - CONFIGURING THE MAIL SERVER SETTINGS LATER 11. Click Next. The wizard will list the information that you have requested (Figure 9). FIGURE 9: COMPLETING THE SERVER EXTENSIONS CONFIGURATION 12. Click Finish. The Wizard begins the process of configuring the extensions and creating the user groups (Figure 10). 6/10

7 When it is finished, you should open the NT User Manager and assign users to these groups. FIGURE 10: CONFIGURING EXTENSIONS AND CREATING USER GROUPS Next, if you have installed SuiteVoyager to a location other than the default, then you will need to use the Windows Explorer to navigate to that location. 13. Open the SuiteVoyager Directory and right-click on the winroot sub-directory. 14. Select Properties. 15. Select the Security tab. 16. Add the newly created groups to the Access Control List and assign the associated rights. 7/10

8 FIGURE 11: THE WINROOT SUB-DIRECTORY - PROPERTIES 17. Open the Win-XML Exporter and verify that you can publish to the SuiteVoyager Portal. Utility to Reinstall the Front Page Extensions, and Recalculate the Web 1. To fix the InTouch Windows publishing error, download the ReCalculate utility Unzip the file and run the executable. The following command prompt appears: FIGURE 12: COMMAND PROMPT 8/10

9 2. The user simply needs to press the Enter key to complete the repair process. Note This utility will bypass Step 7 mentioned above. SuiteVoyager Version 2.0 Enhancements and Differences SuiteVoyager 2.0 support IE5.5, and higher, while version1 supports IE5.01, and higher. The computer must have IE 6.0 installed on it, before Installing WinXML Exporter. It is recommended to reinstall WinXML Exporter Utility, while Upgrading to SuiteVoyager2.0. The SuiteVoyager 2.0 Portal will automatically determine the browser's capability to use XSLT. Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher supports XSLT. SuiteVoyager Prerequisites will check for Microsoft Extension and will let you configure them if needed. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later must be installed in the web server computer before installing SuiteVoyager. Note FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 will not be supported until NET server is released and SuiteVoyager has passed QA on this platform. Please refer to SuiteVoyager Installation Guide For more information: Installing SuiteVoyager Prerequisites. Configuring Front page Server Extensions. Installing the Windows Operating System. Software Requirements. Publishing Error - Undocumented IIS Setting You will not be able to publish to the server if the IP setting in Default Web Site Properties dialog is set to Use IP Address instead of All Unassigned. (Figure 13). To correct this error, change the IP setting to All Unassigned and restart the Web server. 9/10

10 FIGURE 13: THE DEFAULT WEB SITE PROPERTIES DIALOG BOX K. Nourbakhsh Tech Notes are published occasionally by Wonderware Technical Support. Publisher: Invensys Systems, Inc., Rancho Parkway South, Lake Forest, CA There is also technical information on our software products at Wonderware Technical Support For technical support questions, send an to back to top 2013 Invensys Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, broadcasting, or by anyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Invensys Systems, Inc. Terms of Use. 10/10