Public Folder home page conflicts with Frontpage Extensions

microsoft.public.exchange.misc

2 Oct 2007 3:43 PM

Chad Ginther

I am trying to create a public folder home page using Outlook 2003 and
Exchange 2003. It seems straight forward enough. Web browsing in Outlook is
enabled.

I can set the homepage to display pages like Google, so I know it functions.
But when I try to set it to a page that is on our local server, Outlook
gives a security warning and asks me to Open or Save a file with a random
name and .tmp extension.

Our web server uses Frontpage Extensions, Server 2003, IIS 6. Our mail
system uses Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003.

I can point to a different machine on the network which does not have
Frontpage Extensions, and the page loads fine. Thus, it doesn't seem like an
internal vs. external issue, or a problem with trusted sites vs Internet
zones. It suggests to me that Frontpage is conflicting.

Placing the public folder page on a different machine is not a good
workaround. I want to only have pages on the web server.

One alternative would be to point to files located directly in the public
folder, but I don't how what URL to use for that, if possible.

It's hard to tell the best place to post this, it seems like an
Outlook/Exchange/IIS/Frontpage combination problem.