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.
Yes, strangely not widely known. That’s such a huge benefit for using SharePoint online now.
Details here on external sharing:
I don’t think you could open it up to thousands(!) but for most companies, it would work out quite well. Though I don’t see any restrictions on it from Microsoft.
