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Can I use Frontpage extensions?

April 26, 2017extensions Frontpage

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Can I use Frontpage extensions?

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We are familiar with the Frontpage server extensions, and can certainly appreciate the convenience they would offer. However we can not install the Frontpage server extensions for security reasons and because the Frontpage server extensions are incompatible with the UM environment. This does not mean that you cannot use Frontpage to publish pages on our servers, it merely means that the UMCE is not structured in a way that would permit the server extensions to work. Our web servers are completely separate from our file servers (the files you store in your IFS home directory are read by (but do not reside on) the UM web servers). This distributed file system (IFS) makes access to files extremely easy and convenient, but because of this setup we lose some ability to use software such as the Microsoft Frontpage server extensions that manipulate files in individuals’ directories. Our web servers cannot safely be configured to have write access to user home directories.