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Preparing Your Network and Installing Contribute
In addition to securing the administrative folders using the operating system’s permissions and
access control lists, you should consider using UrlScan to further secure IIS web servers. UrlScan
is a security tool provided by Microsoft that screens incoming requests to the server by filtering
the requests based on rules that you create. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring
that only valid requests are processed.
To learn more about the UrlScan utility, see the Microsoft website at
www.microsoft.com
.
Other web servers
If you are using another vendor’s web server, refer to the documentation supplied with your web
server software to learn how to prevent users from accessing specific folders and files.
Special files created by the draft review process
The draft review process enables you to send drafts to users for final approval before publishing
pages to your site. When you enable the draft review process, Contribute creates a series of folders
and files used in tracking pages as they make their way through the collaborative approval
workflow. Although there are no site maintenance or planning tasks involved in enabling
approvals for your website, you should be aware of the additional files and folders that Contribute
creates to manage the workflow.
