Microsoft FrontPage 98 Server Extensions: Versions History

Release Date:  5/26/98

Released to Office Update Web site.

Description: 
This update fixes a problem which followed any Daylight Savings Time changes, in which the Modified Time displayed in the FrontPage Explorer was incorrect, and the Modified By information unavailable.

With this update, the root level of a Web or virtual server, rather than the global server setting, is checked to detect the anonymous account name. Also, the Server Extensions now fully support the "Enable Automatic Password Synchronization" checkbox on servers running IIS 4.0.

An updated fpcount.exe has been included in these Server Extensions to prevent a denial of service attack using invalid arguments.

This update also corrects an issue where a potential server lockup could occur if a Web hosted on a multi-processor server running any version of IIS had multiple users authoring simultaneously.

For more information about this update please refer to the Web page.

Release Date:  2/20/98

Released to Office Update Web site.

Description:
This update prevents ASP or server-side script code from being exposed to the end-user when the script code and a run-time component are placed on the same page (a combination of technologies that isn't supported) or when someone passes the script through the SHTML.DLL file.

This update also corrects sorting and table of contents issues with Discussion Webs, and addresses an issue with disk-based webs that are published to a server that supports the FrontPage Server Extensions.

This update also includes the previously addressed issue of support for multi-hosting configurations with the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions running on O’Reilly Web site and Web site Pro on Windows.

For more information about this update please refer to the Server Extensions Update v. 1706  Web page.

Release Date: 2/11/98

Released to Office Update Web site.

Description: 
This update supports multi-hosting configurations with the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions running on O’Reilly Web site and Web site Pro on Windows. Single hosted server support worked before version 3.0.2.1313, but multi-hosted sites did not.

On IIS 4.0, the version 3.0.2.1313 Server Extensions are changed to create individual application roots by default for each FrontPage Web or subweb. These application roots are used to mark the FrontPage Extension DLLs as in-process applications.  Before this change the IIS 4.0 global setting InProcessISAPIApps was used to run the FrontPage Extension DLLs in-process, which is a small security risk if users are allowed to upload and execute their own ISAPI DLLs.

For more information on this update please refer to Server Extensions Update v. 1313.

Release Date:  1/05/98

Description:
Limited test build that fixed multihosted server support for O'Reilly Website Web servers. 

Relelease Date:   IIS 4.0 initial product release (early Dec.'97)

Description: 
Server Extensions update for IIS 4.0.  This version of the Server Extensions is included in the IIS 4.0 setup package and is not on the FrontPage 98 retail CD.  This version also does not support any server type other than IIS 4.0.

To install use the FrontPage Server Extensions option in the IIS 4.0 Custom setup.

Release Date:  Initial FrontPage 98 product release (late Oct. '97)

Description:
Initial release to the FrontPage Web site and  was included on the retail FrontPage 98 CD-ROM.

Although this release will install on IIS 4.0, do not use the 3.0.2.926 Server Extensions with IIS 4.0. Fixes were made in the period between the FrontPage 98 release date and the IIS 4.0 release date.  Use version 3.0.2.1105, or later, of the Server Extensions that are included in the IIS 4.0 setup.

Release Date:  3/13/99

Released to the Office Update Web site.

Description:
This update prevents server-side script code from being exposed to the end-user when the script code and a run-time component are placed on the same page (a combination of technologies that isn't supported) or when someone passes the script through the SHTML.EXE file.

This update also changes the way symbolic links are followed in the FrontPage Explorer and FrontPage Server Administrator (fpsrvadm.exe).

An updated fpcount.exe has been included in these Server Extensions.

This update also corrects sorting issues with Discussion Webs, and addresses an issue with disk-based webs that are published to a server that supports the FrontPage Server Extensions.

The update includes the FrontPage patch for Apache Web Server 1.2.5.

For more information about this update please refer to the Server Extensions Update v. 1330 for UNIX Web page.

Release Date:  1/29/98

Released to Office Update Web site.

Description:
This update to the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions for Digital UNIX on the Alpha platform corrects a FrontPage Theme application issue. This does not affect any other version of the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions.

Release Date:  12/12/97

Released to FrontPage Web site.

Description:
For Apache Web servers, does not require write access to httpd.conf in order to run the FrontPage Server Extensions.  Write access to httpd.conf is required in order to install the FrontPage Server Extensions, but not to run the extensions for remote authoring and publishing.

Release Date:  10/21/97

Released to FrontPage Web site.

Description:
Fixes security issues with the original shipping version of the FrontPage Apache patch.  No changes to the core Server Extensions themselves, thus the version number of the server extensions did not change.  No change or update required for any server other than Apache with the FrontPage patch installed.

The Web server version string reported by Apache indicates whether the fixed FrontPage Apache patch is installed. If the FrontPage number is 3.0.3 or higher than the fix is installed:

• Apache/1.2.4 FrontPage/3.0.2  The fix is not installed.
  
• Apache/1.2.4 FrontPage/3.0.3 The fix is installed.

Release Date:  Initial FrontPage 98 product release

Description:
Initial release to FrontPage Web site and included on the retail FrontPage 98 CD-ROM.