Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010
Abstract: Most companies, large or small, require contact and collaboration with external entities, whether they are vendors, clients, or contractors. SharePoint gives us the ability to open up portals for collaboration with these external entities – this session will show you how to accomplish this using SharePoint 2010.
We will review what is required to make SharePoint “open” to the external world, discuss scenarios regarding security and privacy, as well as walk through configuring Forms Based Authentication, Claims Based Authentication, as well as using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010, to authenticate, and manage our external users.
Once completing this session, you should have a firm grasp on how to configure an extranet environment using SharePoint 2010, as well as what should be considered during the planning of your extranet scenarios.
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Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010
1. Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.
Planning and Configuring
Extranets in SharePoint 2010
Prepared for
Prepared by Geoff Varosky
Jornata
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Submitted on October 17, 2011
10. Requirements
• What do you REALLY need?
– Who needs access?
– How sensitive is the data?
– How sensitive is your network?
– Budget?
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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Thinking SharePoint? Think Jornata.
12. Requirements
• Who needs access?
– Internal employees only?
• Active Directory
– Internal employees and external users?
• Active Directory
– Additional domain with restricted access
• Active Directory & Forms Based Authentication
– Claims Authentication
– External
• Clients, partners, consultants
– Active Directory
– Forms Based Authentication
– Separate or together?
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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13. Remember this…
You are giving a key
to access your
company’s data in
some form or
another.
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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20. Managing Users
• IIS
– Must change default role manager and membership providers
each time = DOWNTIME.
– Separate IIS Virtual Web Application
• BCS
– Great way to manage users (passwords, emails, etc.)
– No ability to create users without another layer of logic
• Codeplex
– SharePoint 2010 FBA Pack
• http://sharepoint2010fba.codeplex.com
• 3rd Party…
– DevIt.EU
• http://www.devit.eu/
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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21. Remember this too…
• Test the configuration
• Review security regularly
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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22. Resources
• My blog series
– Part 1 : http://go.gvaro.net/ExtranetsP1
– Part 2 : http://go.gvaro.net/ExtranetsP2
– Part 3 : http://go.gvaro.net/ExtranetsP3
• My Virtual Environment via CloudShare
– SharePoint 2010 Information Worker image
– Configured just about the same as we did here
– On the desktop
• Links to my information
• Link to Extranet
• 14 Day Trial
• Use promo code GEOFF to get first month for $29!
• http://go.gvaro.net/ExtranetsVM3
email: gvarosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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23. Resources
• Visual FBA configuration by Donal Conlon
– http://go.gvaro.net/oPnAYx
• Extranet tested topologies for SP 2010 Model
– http://go.gvaro.net/SP2010ExtTopMod
• ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Database Reference
– Create, Add Users, etc.
– http://go.gvaro.net/AN2Mbr
• FBA Configuration in SharePoint 2010
– LDAP: http://go.gvaro.net/FBALDAP
– ASP.NET Membership DB: http://go.gvaro.net/FBAANMDB
email: geoff.varosky@jornata.com | web: www.jornata.com | blog: www.sharepointyankee.com | twitter: @gvaro
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