Description of the security update for FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computers: April 11, 2006

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS06-017. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update for FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, depending on whether you are a home user or an IT professional:

• Home Users
  http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/200604.mspx
• IT Professionals
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-017.mspx

Issues that the security update fixes

Besides the issues that are described in the security bulletin, the security update for FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:Besides the issues that are described in the security bulletin, the security update for FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions addresses the following issue that is not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• By default, Integrated Windows Authentication is turned off at the global level and at the per virtual server level. This behavior is changed so that Integrated Windows Authentication is turned on by default on the virtual servers on which FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions is running.

Known issues during installation

• After you install this security update for FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions (KB908981) on the original release version of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you will be restricted to using Indexing Services as the default search method. This behavior was introduced with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).