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 run a separate farm. It’s in the DMZ. We do however use a shared Management Metadata Service, which was messy and required far too many holes in the firewall!