enabling external rss feeds
sharepoint v3 has the nice ability to display rss feeds via web parts... but there is a potential problem
most rss feeds people care about are external, meaning outside the company's intranet.
in order to allow your sharepoint server external access you may have to add a proxy for iis so it can reach the outside internet.
to do this you must edit the web.config file for the appropriate virtual server.
warning: make a backup of your web.config before modifying
add this line toward the bottom of your web.config, but before the closing </configuration>. also you should probably do a CTRL+F and look for the word proxy in your web.config... you want to make sure if you already have settings in there that they don't conflict.
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy usesystemdefault="false" proxyaddress="http://yourproxyhere" bypassonlocal="true" />
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
this should not require a restart of iis.... iis will pickup on the change automatically. try that apache. ;)
