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In this movie, we'll talk about the new segmentation of features between the two versions of FileMaker Server 9; FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. Both versions, as you can see, allow for the hosting of FileMaker databases for access by FileMaker Pro clients on both local and wide-area networks. This has long been the core feature of the FileMaker Server product and is the principle reason for its use. New, however, in FileMaker Server 9 Standard Edition is that most Web Publishing items, including PHP, XML and XSLT have been moved from the Advanced version to the Standard version. This is particularly significant for the new FileMaker PHP API, which links the common web-scripting language of PHP to the FileMaker databases. In the Advanced version, Instant Web Publishing has been retained. Instant Web Publishing allows users to publish their databases to the web with remarkable fidelity between the appearance of the layout in FileMaker Pro and its appearance in modern web browsers, such as Firefox 2, Safari 2 and 3 and Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Also retained in the Advanced version of FileMaker Server is the capability to publish databases as the source of information for ODBC and JDBC connections by other applications such as spreadsheets, word processors, various reporting tools and the like. This again is a case where the FileMaker Pro database is the source of the information. This capability is not required to connect using ODBC or to an external sequel source. Switching now to the Admin Console window on OS X Server, we see that in both FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced, we have the capability to manage a significant number of features, perhaps the most important of which is the automated backups. So as you see, we can create a schedule to backup databases on a regular and frequent basis and we have a great deal of flexibility in configuring this. New in FileMaker Server 9 is the ability to run a ScriptMaker script in a FileMaker Pro file hosted on the server. All the steps in such a script must be web compatible; otherwise an error will occur. If logging is enabled, that error will be written to the log and that's frequently the best way to discover why a script did not run as expected. We also have the opportunity to configure email notifications. And as you see here, we can configure either errors or warnings and errors and this will send an email to the administrator advising him or her of some anomalous occurrence in the performance of the server. We also, as has been the case in previous versions, have the opportunity to configure SSL encryption between FileMaker Server and FileMaker Pro class or FileMaker Web Publishing agent. This particular feature is for the encryption of data in transit, not data at rest. We also have the opportunity to examine the authentication options which are FileMaker accounts only or FileMaker and external server accounts, as well as the display of the files, which is, in effect, a challenge for authentication to the server before seeing the databases. We'll cover each of these in greater detail in subsequent movies. We also have the option to enable logging and this is something that you should do because the logs can give you very detailed information and be invaluable for troubleshooting. We can log events, access and usage statistics and in the event of Web Publishing, we can also set several options for logging ScriptMaker errors, access logging and in certain instances, user information. We also have the capability of addressing issues related to server-side plug-ins in FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced, as well as the ability to set idle timeout for clients to be disconnected if they have remained idle for a significant period of time. Here is the panel where, as I mentioned earlier, you can configure server-side plug-ins. Additionally, there are numerous statistics that can be watched and monitored on an ongoing, live basis, allowing administrators to track the behavior of the server from anywhere on the local or the wide-area network. So to sort of sum up and take an overview, we've looked at, in this particular movie, the basic segmentation in FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced, including the movement from the Advanced to the Standard version of custom Web Publishing. We've also seen a number of items that can be managed from within the FileMaker Server Administration Console on both Windows Server 2003 and Macintosh OS X Server. b Publishing. We've also seen a number of items that can be managed from within the FileMaker Server Administration Console on both Windows Server 2003 and Macintosh OS X Server.