## Back Office Server Components

Important Setup Information

- FrontPage Server Extensions
- MDAC 2.0 Update
- Posting Acceptor (2.0)
- Remote Machine Debugging
- Windows NT Option Pack 4.0

## FrontPage Server Extensions

FrontPage Server Extensions are required to create and edit Visual InterDev Web projects. These extensions replace the FrontPage Extensions installed with FrontPage 98, as well as those installed by Internet Information Server 4.0, and they must be installed to work properly with Webs created by Visual InterDev 6.0. This setup may only be installed on x86 platforms.

See [ ReadMe file ] for more information about installing and running [ component ].

## MDAC 2.0 Update

The Microsoft Data Access Components are the key technologies that enable Universal Data Access. They include ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Remote Data Service (RDS, formerly known as Advanced Data Connector or ADC), OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).

This setup updates the components from the release that shipped with Internet Information Server 4.0 to be compatible to the features that ship with Visual Studio 6.0.

See [ ReadMe file ] for more information about installing and running [ component ].

## Posting Acceptor (2.0)

Visual Studio supports deployment of a solution to a range of servers. In order to deploy solutions with components that need to be installed and registered on the server to Windows NT machines running Internet Information Server 3.0 or 4.0, you must first install Internet Explorer 4.0 and Posting Acceptor 2.0 on the server machine. This is only required for components that have to be registered on the server, and is not required for components that are used on the server machine (from Active Server Pages, for example).

See [ ReadMe file ] for more information about installing and running [ component ].

## Remote Machine Debugging

The purpose of this option is to allow you to debug your script and Java code even when it is running on a remote machine. The situation might come up if you deploy Java COM objects or if they write ASP applications that run on a remote Web server. Once this option is installed on a machine and the appropriate permissions are enabled, you can attach from their own desktop and debug the code while it is running remotely. The feature requires DCOM support on both machines.

See [ ReadMe file ] for more information about installing and running [ component ].

## Windows NT Option Pack 4.0

The Windows NT Option Pack 4.0 is designed to provide a wide range of users, from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to Internet Service Providers hosting Web sites that receive millions of hits per day, with the tools to make it easier to build Web applications, manage Web sites, and publish and share information.

The Windows NT Option Pack 4.0 contains the following new application and communications services:

Internet Information Server 4.0
- Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0
Microsoft Message Queue Server 1.0
Internet Connection Services for Remote Access Service (RAS)
- FrontPage Server Extensions
- Certificate Server
- Mail and News Services Index Server 2.0
- Windows Scripting Host
- Microsoft Data Access Components 1.5
- Script Debugger 1.0
- Site Server Express 2.0

To use these components you must first install Windows NT 4.0 and Service Pack 3. In addition, Windows NT Server service must be installed and running.

Important Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 will not upgrade an IIS 2.0 system if IIS 2.0 was installed after the Windows NT 4.0 system was upgraded to Service Pack 3. Users must first uninstall IIS 2.0 from these systems, and then install the Windows NT Option Pack. However, IIS 4.0 is able to upgrade IIS 2.0 systems that have been upgraded to Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 after IIS 2.0 has been installed.

See [ ReadMe file ] for more information about installing and running [ component ].