Windows 2003, so secure it doesn’t work
At least in this instance, the default security was a bit handicapping…
Last night I was attempting to setup a site in a pretty new instance of Windows 2003, and I wanted to transfer the files to the server via FrontPage Extensions. So I remote desktopped in, and opened IIS and clicked the “Configure Extensions” menuitem on the respective website. A local webpage opened and asked me to define the administrator and folder path, which I did and then clicked the button. Waa-laa, up comes the fancy gear-shifting image!
Waiting…
Waiting…
Hmm, nothing changed. Close IE window. Click “Configure Extensions” link again in IIS. Click Button on web page again. Gear-shifting image appears.
Waiting…
Repeat a few times double checking connections and everything. No good.
Ok, fine, its late I’ll just email myself the files using my fancy gMail account. After sending the zipped files I attempt to login to gMail, where I have to enable cookies and javascript even to get into it. I see one of the files has arrived, but then a lightbulb goes on. Bing! I flip back to IIS, click “Configure Extensions”, click the button, gear-shifty things come up and Boom! The page uses the newly enabled Javascript to show me an error. Apparantly I had moved some files under the application root that had some past Front Page extension logs in them and I needed to delete them before I could enable Extensions for this website.
So there you have it, gMail is good for something beyond a status symbol.
