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• 11-04-2009, 12:09 PM

  SteveVi Joined on 11-04-2009, 12:01 PM Posts 4

  FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact I have a fresh Windows Web Server 2008 R2 install.  I have installed RTR FPSE (from an elevated command prompt) and and installation completes without errors.  However, the section of the install page titled "Using HTML Administration Pages to Extend a Web Site" indicates that I should be able to extend a web site by: "Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Microsoft SharePoint Administrator to open the Server Administration page." The problem is that I don't have a "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" entry in Administrative Tools group. Any thoughts?

• 11-11-2009, 5:47 AM

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  WenJun Zhang - MSFT Joined on 08-26-2008, 10:53 PM Posts 139

  Re: FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact Do you have the Microsoft sharepoint administration site in IIS? If so, you can browse to this site to open FPSE admin. Please ensure it's running in a 32bit application pool. WenJun Zhang - MSFT Sincerely Microsoft Online Community Support “Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ”

• 11-11-2009, 10:33 AM

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  robmcm Joined on 05-27-2006, 1:05 AM Redmond, WA Posts 125

  Re: FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact The FrontPage Server Extensions do not work with IIS 7.5 - therefore they are not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. You may see a bunch of errors if you try to install FPSE with IIS 7.5, and after the installation has completed they will not work. Quoting some of my earlier posts, currently there are no plans to support FPSE on IIS 7.5. Demand for FPSE has decreased over the past few years in favor of industry-standard protocols like WebDAV and FTP. That being said, I wrote a walkthrough titled "How to Migrate FPSE Sites to WebDAV" that you can find at the following URL: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/359/how-to-migrate-fpse-sites-to-webdav/ In this walkthrough I describe something that I've been doing a lot recently, which is to move away from FPSE on my web sites in favor of WebDAV. What's more - if you use the built-in WebDAV redirector in Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 (including R2) you can map a drive to a web site over WebDAV and open it in an FPSE-friendly client (like older verison of FrontPage or Visual Studio) and still preserve all of your FrontPage metadata. Robert McMurray (MSFT, IIS)

• 11-11-2009, 8:05 PM

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  SteveVi Joined on 11-04-2009, 12:01 PM Posts 4	Re: FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact WenJun Zhang - MSFT: Do you have the Microsoft sharepoint administration site in IIS? If so, you can browse to this site to open FPSE admin. Please ensure it's running in a 32bit application pool. No, oddly no Sharepoint Administration Site in IIS which I think is the root of the problem.

• 11-11-2009, 8:10 PM

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  SteveVi Joined on 11-04-2009, 12:01 PM Posts 4

  Re: FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact robmcm: The FrontPage Server Extensions do not work with IIS 7.5 - therefore they are not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. You may see a bunch of errors if you try to install FPSE with IIS 7.5, and after the installation has completed they will not work. Quoting some of my earlier posts, currently there are no plans to support FPSE on IIS 7.5. Demand for FPSE has decreased over the past few years in favor of industry-standard protocols like WebDAV and FTP. That being said, I wrote a walkthrough titled "How to Migrate FPSE Sites to WebDAV" that you can find at the following URL: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/359/how-to-migrate-fpse-sites-to-webdav/ In this walkthrough I describe something that I've been doing a lot recently, which is to move away from FPSE on my web sites in favor of WebDAV. What's more - if you use the built-in WebDAV redirector in Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 (including R2) you can map a drive to a web site over WebDAV and open it open in an FPSE-friendly client (like older verison of FrontPage or Visual Studio) and still preserve all of your FrontPage metadata. Hmm, I must have missed the part about it not working with R2/IIS7.5.  I followed your excellent walk through and migrated to WebDAV. Overall much easier to do than I thought it would be.  Thanks!

• 11-11-2009, 8:11 PM

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  SteveVi Joined on 11-04-2009, 12:01 PM Posts 4	Re: FPSE Install - Missing "Microsoft SharePoint Administrator" link in Administrative Tools Reply Contact Oops, refreshed the page and ended up with a duplicate post.  Content deleted...