Microsoft Office SharePoint: Deactivating and Reactivating the Access Manager Policy Filter

Two tasks follow: one for deactivating the policy filter and one for reactivating it.

Microsoft Office SharePoint: To Deactivate the Access Manager Policy Filter

1. As an administrator, log in to Windows 2003 Server where Microsoft Office SharePoint is running.

2. In the Microsoft Windows Start menu, choose run.

3. Type the following: inetmgr.

4. Click OK.

5. Expand the local computer.

6. Expand the Web Sites folder.

7. Right-click Default Web Site.

   An options list appears.

8. In the options list, click Properties.

   The Default Web Site Properties dialog box appears.

9. Click the ISAPI Filters tab.

10. Click the amspfilter filter.

11. Click Remove.

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    Caution –

    After removing the filter manually, as described in this task, if you want to reactivate it or if you want to unconfigure the agent by issuing the SPAdmin.vbs -unconfig command, you must first add the filter back manually (see Microsoft Office SharePoint: To Reactivate the Access Manager Policy Filter) with the same filter name, for example amspfilter. Otherwise, an error will be issued.

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12. Click OK.

13. Restart the Microsoft IIS 6.0 Server.

    A method for restarting this server is to enter iisreset in a command window.

Microsoft Office SharePoint: To Reactivate the Access Manager Policy Filter

1. As an administrator, log in to Windows 2003 Server where Microsoft Office SharePoint is running.

2. In the Microsoft Windows Start menu, choose run.

3. Type the following: inetmgr.

4. Click OK.

5. Expand the local computer.

6. Expand the Web Sites folder.

7. Right click Default Web Site.

   An options list appears.

8. In the options list, Click Properties.

   The Default Web Site Properties dialog box appears.

9. Click the ISAPI Filters tab.

10. Click Add.

11. In the Filter Name field, enter the following: amspfilter

12. In the Executable field, enter PolicyAgent-base\bin\amsharepointfilter32.dll.

13. Click OK.