The subject of using SharePoint as an Extranet has come up in conversation a few times recently and I was wondering if the community pursue this option in their Farms? We used a very cool Extranet tool called Extradium on SP24, but I know there are other options out there (such as doing your own Forms Based auth). I am really interested to see how you do it? If you do extend SharePoint to your partners do you go for a completely separate Farm running SP Foundation? We also offer a solution to help manage third-party risk so would love to hear your thoughts on that.
We’ve been using SP2007 as an extranet for about 6 years.
We use forms logins using an ASPNETDB SQL DB for the users.
Plus we got some custom authentication work done for us to allow some users to authenticate via IP address.
More recently we stuck it behind UAG to allow us to use Kerberos and connect through to SSRS in integrated mode.
Just in the middle of migrating to SP2013, WAP and ADFS… it’s not all plain sailing…
