Daily Archives: March 12, 2004

IIS6 Virtual Server, FrontPage 2002 Extensions and frontpg.lck

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Since I could not find this on the web, I am putting it here for the next person.

When trying to upgrade a virtual server in IIS6 with the FP2002 extensions, I received an error message “unable to access frontpg.lck“.

Since I was logging into the process with an admin account, I needed to add that account to the permissions of the _vti_pvt folder (even if it is just temporary) for write access.

Extending this virtual server solved the problem I was having with not being able to edit an ASP site in Visual InterDev since I moved from Win2K server to Win2003 Server.

More on ValidateRequest: Don Kiely in ASPNetPro “safe by default comes at a cost”

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I recently learned about the v1.1 ValidateRequest (on by default) feature and wrote about it (though the comments to that post are the most interesting part…). Don Kiely has more to say on ValidateRequest in this quick ASPNetPro article. If you are writing aspnet1.1 sites, you should really be aware of what’s going on in the background with this and take responsibility for your applications.