FrontPage Extensions have been discontinued by Microsoft
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** Revised 03/26/2010
Support for FrontPage Extensions on shared web hosting servers are being discontinued since Microsoft is no longer applying security patches and supporting the extensions.
FrontPage extensions will remain on all Sectorlink servers until June of 2010. We will then be removing the extension because of the risk of exploits.
During this time we may need to install software updates / security patches that may cripple the FrontPage extension bots. These updates could break FrontPage WebBots (See Below). We will not be able to reverse this since this is something that would need to be done in order to secure servers.
Adding FrontPage extensions to newly added websites is no longer possible.
As we continue to update our services to newer systems and faster hardware, occasionally it becomes necessary to discontinue support for technologies which are no longer developed or supported.
Microsoft has decided to discontinue all development and support for FrontPage. The last version of FrontPage Extensions was released in 2002. Microsoft discontinued Frontpage Server Extensions for Unix servers in June 2006. Microsoft also discontinued the Frontpage publishing application in late 2006. Both of these programs worked together to provide you with the FrontPage experience you are familiar with.
Sectorlink has continued to run the unsupported FrontPage Extensions on our servers since 2006 to try to provide as much support for customers as possible, however, in light of our plans for new systems and hardware, we are officially announcing the removal of the extensions.
FrontPage Extensions provided the following functionality:
- Website publishing (through FrontPage Extensions)
- "Save-time WebBots", which were functionality that could be added to web pages when authoring that provided auto-generation of content, such as included content and tables of contents.
- "Browse-time WebBots", which were designed to replace common CGI-based features, such as processing form-results and page hit counters and guestbooks.
If you are only using FrontPage Extensions for website publishing, you can easily switch to FTP publishing. We have provided a knowledge base article to do so.
If you are also using WebBots or other FrontPage scripting functionality, parts of your website will stop working after FrontPage Extensions are discontinued on your server.