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