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Welcome to Personal Web Server! Microsoft Personal Web Server is a desktop Web 
server that makes it possible for you to publish your personal home page and 
share documents on the corporate network right from your own computer.

  Or, use PWS as a development staging platform before uploading your site to 
an Internet provider.





What is a Web server? What does a Web server do? In the same way big Web 
servers at an Internet Web site, such as www.microsoft.com, make documents 
available to Internet visitors, PWS makes documents available by Web browser 
from your corporate intranet.





At home, you can use a browser to preview your site before uploading, to see 
how it looks and functions when served.

Create a Home Page Automatically! Most Web sites have a welcome page, typically 
referred to as the Web site’s home page. A home page can tell a visitor about 
you or your company, and provide navigation to other parts of your Web site.

  PWS provides a home page wizard that helps you quickly create a home page. No 
programming skill is




Locate Documents Easily! Ever get confused by cryptic file names on a shared 
directory? Avoid confusion by placing descriptive links on your home page. 
Visitors easily reach the correct document.

  To place links on your home page, you just type the location and description 
of the file. PWS does the rest!



Publish Documents Quickly Visitors to your site can view only the documents in 
your Web publishing directories, and cannot access documents in folders outside 
your Web publishing tree.

  Drop documents on the Publish icon to make them immediately available in 
their original format.




Share Documents Across Platforms If you’ve ever had difficulty viewing a 
document because it was created in a different version of the software, or on a 
different operating system, then you know how frustrating sharing can be.

  Solve sharing problems by converting documents to HTML and publishing them on 
a Web site



Interact With Your Visitors Want to know who's been to your site? Like to have 
visitors leave messages for you? Web sites make two-way communication quick and 
simple.

  To begin interacting with site visitors, select the Guest Book and Drop Box 
options when you create your home page.



Gather Information Need to conduct a survey? Make data collection simple and 
friendly with a collection form on your Web site. Our “cut-and-paste” tutorial 
helps you create a custom form in minutes.

  For advanced form design, use Microsoft® FrontPage® or Microsoft® Visual 
InterDev™, and then test your application on PWS


Test Drive Your Internet Web Site Creating a site for yourself or your company 
on the Internet? PWS makes a great platform for testing your site before 
hosting it on the company server, or on an Internet service provider.

  Check links, forms, scripts, and applications to be sure they display and 
function correctly.



Start Publishing Now! Let Personal Web Server help you bring down the barriers 
to information sharing today. Everything you need to create, personalize, and 
serve your Web site is available in PWS.

  Click the Web Site icon on the sidebar to create your home page