Chapter 13. Deploying SharePoint for Extranets and Alternative Authentication Scenarios

Many organizations have implemented extranets using SharePoint 2007 to collaborate with partners, vendors, and customers. These organizations have learned to work with many of the issues that are associated with deploying SharePoint 2007 as an extranet solution, such as alert emails sending out the wrong URLs, poor Office client integration, and confusion among teams collaborating via a extranet site.

Microsoft has made a significant investment in many areas of SharePoint 2010, including significant changes to extranet functionality. These improvements include better integration with the Office suite, improvements in the authentication process, flexible deployment scenarios, improved identity management within the application programming interface (API), and many more.

This chapter covers common reasons for using extranet solutions and illustrates the various audiences that extranets are targeted to. It continues by discussing the new security authentication model in SharePoint 2010, and it demonstrates specifics on real-world implementations of extranet solutions. In addition, this chapter discusses how to upgrade an Existing SharePoint 2007 extranet. Finally, it wraps up by discussing security considerations and challenges and best practices around extranet solutions.

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