From this post, in Pre-sales forum, I've got that FileSystemObject is not allowed... Hmm.. strange, I use it in several places (not creating/altering files, but getting folder's list, file sizes, etc.), and it works fine. Is it something that going to be disabled, or I misunderstood something?
no. FSO is available on Win1 and Win2 machines but is not available on Win4 (where new users are being signed up). The reason is because FSO is classified as a high-risk component by many many windows providers. By high-risk, i mean that it could be used to exploit poor windows security. Therefore, we'd like security on Win4 to mature before it is enabled there
I'm on Win2 and I use FSO to write to my guestbook on one of my websites. Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm on win2? It's eisenberghome.com and it's been working since the first day I registered; but I can imagine some windows hosts disabling this component because of possible security risks. If the IIS user account isn't secured well enough, you can write a script which opens any file in any directory and do anything you want.
-Dave
what happened was that I had actually made those posts but they appeared under your username because one of our developers was also working with the forum's MySQL database at the same time. I don't know what he did but it came under your username. He then deleted those posts. We are in the process of switching this to vBulletin.
Wineisgood.com is on Win2 if I recall. FSO is fully functional on Win1 and Win2. Win4 is a new server for new customers. We still have to make lots of security and permission adjustments for it to be able to accept a high-risk component like FSO. I'm hoping that would be completed within a week.
There is no such thing as Win3. Win3 is actually mssql3 which is a new dedicated SQL Server 2000 server