Xhost - Office Server Extensions FAQ

What are Office Server Extensions?
What additional features will I get?
What payment methods are accepted?
How much will it cost?
What Browser do I need to use in order to add discussions to my web page?

What are Office Server Extensions?

Office Server Extensions (OSE) are a superset of the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions (FPSE), and are installed on the web hosting server to provide powerful additional facilities to those using Office on their client PC.

Office Server Extensions features improve the collaborative process around Office documents, such as spreadsheets, presentations and word processing documents, and Web pages so teams can create documents that better reflect the knowledge of the workgroup. With Office publishing, users can publish documents to the Web as easily as if they were saving files to a file server. With inline discussions, users can share ideas within the context of a document, resulting in better and more timely team output. Finally, using standard Web technologies, users can easily view, search, and retrieve documents stored on Web servers.

What additional features will I get?

Because the Office Server Extensions are a superset of the FPSEs, they contain all of their rich features and functionality, such as the ability to publish in one step, and easily add sophisticated functionality like hit counters, forms, search capabilities, and forms and database support, without having to know programming.

The server extensions provide the following additional features.

Web Publishing
Users can easily save files to or open files on Web servers from within Office 2000 applications. They can navigate the structure of a Web built with the FrontPage Web site creation and management tool in the same way they can navigate the structure of a file server.

Familiar Editing Environment
Once a user saves a file to a FrontPage-extended or Office-extended Web server, he or she can edit the document simply by clicking the Edit button on the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 browser, and then choosing to edit it in the application in which it was created, or edit it using FrontPage or another HTML editor.

Web Discussions
Users can discuss a document by attaching comments from within either a browser or an Office 2000 application. Documents can be in native Office binary (such as .doc, .xls, or .ppt) or HTML or rich text format. Users can reply to other comments, and more than one user can comment simultaneously on the same document. Discussion comments are stored separately from documents, so that the documents themselves are not altered.

Subscription and Notification
Users subscribe to particular discussions, documents, or folders on a Web server and are automatically notified of status changes by e-mail.

How much will it cost?

Nothing! Your current Frontpage 2000 hosting plan includes Office Server Extensions.

What Browser do I need to use in order to add discussions to my web page?

Nothing! Your current Frontpage 2000 hosting plan includes Office Server Extensions.