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# IIS Server Extensions

Use this Internet Information Services property sheet to configure IIS for performance, scripting, mail, and security using FrontPage and Office Web Server server extensions.

## General Settings

Performance

Select the page range that's closest to the actual number of pages in the selected web. The FrontPage Server Extensions will set aside a certain amount of cache, based on the page range you select. You can use custom settings to gain finer control over performance, such as setting in-memory document cache, include file cache, image file cache, full-text search index size, and maximum cached document size.

Client scripting

Click the scripting language, either JScript or VBScript, that should be generated in pages automatically by the FrontPage Server Extensions.

## Options

Specify how mail should be sent

Displays the E-mail Settings dialog box, in which you can specify how e-mail-based web features, such as e-mail form handlers, send e-mail to Web site visitors. You can use the dialog box to specify the Web server's e-mail address, contact e-mail address, mail server, mail encoding scheme, and character set.

## Permissions

Configure Office collaboration features

Displays the Office Server Extensions administration web pages, from which you can administer Office collaboration features, such as workgroup discussions. This option is unavailable if the Office Web Server (OWS) is not installed on your computer.

Don't inherit security settings

By default, each root web inherits the global security settings of the Web server. To override these settings for the selected root web (and all of its subwebs) select this checkbox. Clear this check box if you want the selected root web to inherit its security settings from the global Web server settings

Log authoring actions

Enables the system to record the time an author's action was performed, the author's user name, the web name, the remote host, and per-operation data, and store this information in a log file in _vti_log/Author.log, in the root web. Clear this check box if you do not want to log authoring actions.

Manage permissions manually

Disables the security-setting functions of FrontPage Server Extension administrative tools (such as the FrontPage MMC snap-in), so that those tools cannot be used to modify the security settings of the selected web. Clear this check box if you want to allow the security settings to be changed by using the FrontPage Server Extensions administrative tools.

Require Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for authoring

Makes it possible for you to use SSL to authenticate prospective web authors. This is recommended if you are currently using only Basic Authentication, which only lightly encrypts information (such as an author's user name and password) transmitted across the Web. Clear this check box if you do not want to require SSL for authoring.

Allow authors to upload executables

Permits authors to upload CGI scripts or active server pages to the selected web. Clear this check box if you want to prevent executables from being uploaded to the web and avoid the risks associated with a possibly buggy script or virus that's uploaded on to your Web server.

For more information about Server Extensions, see the FrontPage documentation.

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