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In Plesk 7.6 and 7.6.1 for Windows, Creation Utilities have got some new features that are designed to enhance the overall availability and manageability of Plesk entities from command line both for developers and for system administrators. To make it easier to use these new features, the enhanced Creation Utilities manual has been published on the site. This manual is meant to replace all the previous Plesk for Windows documentation related to Creation Utilities, including the relevant sections in SDK documentation for Plesk 7.5.
Note: Creation Utilities mentioned below are included in Plesk 7.6 and 7.6.1 for Windows only. Though described in the manual common for all versions of Plesk for Windows, the new Creation Utilities features are not available in earlier versions of Plesk for Windows, neither are they present in Plesk for UNIX.
Subscribing for mass mailing of SWsoft, Inc.
In Plesk 7.6 for Windows and later, the administrator is allowed to subscribe for mass mailing of SWsoft, Inc. via CLI and to get announcements on new products, the information about discounts, and other useful information.
ASP.NET version support on domains and subdomains
Plesk now allows to choose between two versions of MS ASP.NET (1.1 and 2.0) on domains and physical subdomains with ASP.NET support.
Creating virtual subdomains
Along with physical subdomains (having their own folder structure not related to the structure of a parent domain), Plesk now provides the opportunity to create virtual subdomains that are physically hosted within the folder structure of the parent domain. This approach allows direct access to resources (applications, etc) of the parent domain from within a virtual subdomain, e.g. using URL like http://<subdomain_name>.
Creating virtual directories on the site
This is the newest feature supported in Plesk 7.6.1 for Windows. Now Plesk supports virtual directories created on a site and mapping its physical folders. Virtual directories are provided with flexible access settings, SSL support, ASP.NET support and other useful features.
Providing support for multiple FrontPage users on a domain
For domains with FrontPage support, Plesk provides the opportunity to create multiple FrontPage user subaccounts (extra FP accounts created in addition to the default one, FP WebAdmin). Once created, these FP subaccounts can be managed via the administrator's FP account. FrontPage subaccounts cannot be deleted by FP WebAdmin.
Providing remote access to Plesk CP for a client via XML based interface
Plesk can provide a client with an opportunity to create/manage/delete the client's domains programmatically via a special RPC-XML based interface. This feature can be useful for the clients selling domains via the Internet.
Extended management capabilities for a Client
The new version of Plesk for Windows provides some additional management capabilities for a client via CLI. Namely, now the administrator can use CLI to enable/disable the client to access the client's Plesk via Control Panel, to manage the client's IIS application pool, to set aliases for the client's domains, to manage the client's hosting performance, and finally, to create and manage additional FTP subaccounts (a new feature that allows the use of FTP accounts with access permissions for the specified domain folders only) on the client's domains and subdomains.
Managing SiteBuilder integration support on a Client and Domain
Plesk supports integration with SWsoft SiteBuilder. Thus, if any version of SiteBuilder is integrated with Plesk and configured properly, creating a new client in Plesk entails creating a SB user associated with this client, which is called synchronization with SiteBuilder. Beginning with version 7.6, Plesk can integrate SiteBuilder 3.0 and the administrator can decide via CLI whether to put a client in sync with SB 3.0 or to disable SB 3.0 support for this client.
In case a given client supports SB (any version), then creating a new domain owned by this client entails creating an empty site and publishing it on the domain. Here Plesk allows the administrator to disable publishing, including via CLI.
Also, in case a given client supports SB 3.0, creating a new domain can be accompanied with creating and publishing two related subdomains – blog and photo. The administrator is allowed to enable/disable this option via CLI.
Managing spam filtering in SpamAssassin via CLI
Now Plesk allows the administrator to enable/disable spam filtering for the specified email box by means of SpamAssassin via CLI.
Managing server-wide spam filtering in SpamAssassin via CLI
This is also the freshest feature supported in Plesk 7.6.1 for Windows and later. Now Plesk allows the administrator to define spam filtering settings on the server-wide level. These settings can be forcedly applied to all mailboxes of the server either instead of or along with personal spamcheck settings enabled for each mailbox individually.