Where Did FrontPage Server Extensions Go?

Previous versions of FrontPage included a set of server components called FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSEs) designed to help users publish content to Web servers and to build more advanced features, such as searching, into Web sites without requiring FrontPage users to write code or script. FPSEs are supported by many popular Web servers, such as the Apache Web Server running on Linux, as well as on Microsoft’s own Internet Information Server (IIS). This platform independence allows ISPs to offer Web-site hosting services on Linux or Unix machines that their customers can then build sites and pages for using FrontPage as the content authoring tool.

Although FPSEs are included in Windows Server 2003 and FPSE features are still available for site builders using FrontPage 2003, Microsoft has not added any new FPSE features with the release of FrontPage 2003. Many FPSE capabilities, although not all, have been subsumed by Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) features. The following are common features in FPSEs for FrontPage 2002, with their equivalent features in WSS where available: