opening Microsoft Management console

marco501

Can anyone explain how to do this please?

John_Gray

Microsoft Management Console is just a framework to Do Things in.

Click on Start -> Run then enter MMC and press Enter. Then click on File then on Add/Remove Snap-in, then click on Add. You then get a whole bunch of snap-ins from which to choose.

But the question you will probably be left with is: "Why am I doing all this?"!

John_Gray

marco501 wrote: »

I don't know if this is territory I should be getting into, but I've got instructions on how to expand Frontpage Server Extensions in order to receive email from a website. Do I need to be in administrator mode first to do this?

I have no idea what "expand FrontPage Server extensions" means! FrontPage Extensions live on web servers, and relates to web pages written using Microsoft's nearly-extinct Front Page software - this has no connection whatever with mail as far as I know.

You might be better off explaining what it is you are trying to do (or saying what someone has suggested you do), rather than asking possibly-unrelated questions.

John_Gray

Did you actually read my last post?

marco501

Ok there is a 'contact us' form within the site and I am following a page I printed off from the MS site. It says:-

to set up your e-mail transport

To send form results to an e-mail host, the FrontPage Server Extensions require a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server. The FrontPage Server Extensions do not support any other form of e-mail server software.

To send e-mail from IIS, configure the FrontPage Server Extensions in the FrontPage Management Console on the Microsoft Windows NT Server that is running IIS to deliver the mail to an e-mail transport. To do this, follow these steps:

1. In Microsoft Windows Explorer, open the Microsoft Management Console.
   
   By default, this file is located in the following folder:C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\40\bin\fpmmc.msc
2. In the Microsoft Management Console, expand FrontPage Server Extensions.
3. Right-click the folder that has your computer name, click Properties, and then click the Server Extensions tab.
4. In the Options section, click Settings.
5. In the Web server's mail address box, type the e-mail address that you want to appear in the From line of e-mail messages sent by your form results component.
6. Click OK two times.
7. On the Console menu, click Exit.

Note If you use the Internet Service Manager (ISM) from the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack to install the FrontPage Server Extensions, you must configure your mail transport in the same Microsoft Management Console. To do this, open the properties of the site, click the Server Extension tab, and then follow steps 3 through 7 in the "Set up your e-mail transport" section.

For transport to work, you must use the same interface (Microsoft Management Console) that you used to install the extensions.

marco501

NB sorry, I am not techie at all, hence the quite pedestrian questions.

John_Gray

To send e-mail from IIS, configure the FrontPage Server Extensions in the FrontPage Management Console on the Microsoft Windows NT Server that is running IIS to deliver the mail to an e-mail transport.

Do you actually have a Windows NT Server running IIS?

I think you are in this way over your head!

marco501

Yes, I did read it.

marco501

I think you're right - thanks for helping, I will leave it alone I reckon.

John_Gray

I'm sorry, but I don't think you will get much further without considerably more knowledge of the subject, or someone with you who has. This sort of thing requires a fair amount of detailed experience, and you are looking at an area (Microsoft Front Page Extensions) which many web-hosting firms are ceasing to provide for customers, because they are now obsolete, since Microsoft Front Page is no longer available.