Hello All,
This is my first post and very excited to have joined this community. I have searched around the site looking for tips on setting up an extranet for some auditors that need access to internal SP information. My setup is fairly simple with one SharePoint Server 2010 and an sql backend. One of my main questions are, do I need to purchase more hardware and/or licenses for these users? Also, is there any additional configuration that is needed other than extending the web app?
Thanks in advance,
Brandon
Welcome, Brandon!
Here’s a few good resources:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh204611(v=office.14).aspx
You have to buy one license for each external user who will be able to access to your SharePoint resources to do audit. You don’t have to prepare for hardware but my experience is to setup a staging environment that ideally will be used for those auditors to work on. Don’t give them access to your production environment because your information would be compromised.Â
If you are aware of security then Information Rights Management is worth considering to be deployed. Building a real IRM is a long story I can’t one page here describe.
Be aware of giving full access to your SharePoint resources.
Regards,
-T.s
If you only have a few auditors that need to access your internal on-prem SharePoint instance, I suggest that you consider giving them remote desktop access to a workstation inside of your network and then allow them access to only SharePoint. I’m assuming that if they are auditors, they come with pretty stiff NDA’s (security first).
That may sound like overkill, but in my experience the SharePoint 2010Â extranet story is not great (this may have changed in 2013 and of course it’s totally different in Office 365).
If you really need to go extranet, check these articles out:
