Hi All, I have been hooked in to a project which requires involvement of MOSS 2007 and Extranet. Can anyone tell me whether MOSS 2007 is compatible with Extranet...? If yes, How does Sharepoint fit in with Extranet..? I need some light on this frnds... Any links or ideas are welcome... Cheers Dibs

You can use MOSS with Forms Authentication so you can avoid dealing with Active Directory.Here's a link to get you started: Forms Based Authentication WalkthroughIn fact, you could have both Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication by extending a Web Application through Central Administration.Denny_____________________Denny ChowHabaero ConsultingVancouver, BC

To add to the previous point, yes you can use MOSS as an extranet. It works quite nicely. If you do it is important to use dual-authentication providers (FBA and Windows Auth) or else your search isn't going to work correctly. John SharePoint911: SharePoint Consulting http://www.sharepointblogs.com/rossonmoss

Hi John, sorry for the delay as I was engrossed in a different thing... By the term 'Dual authentication' do you mean that:- I create a site http://myservername:8080meant for INTRANET users and set it to use Windows Authentication. Then I extend the web application to say, http://myservername:8081 meant for EXTRANET users and set it to forms authentication. Am I getting you correctly.... Why is it that search is not going to work correctly without this dual authentication...? Please help...

Normally people set up their urls like this: http://intranet.server.com http://www.server.com But what you outlined above could also work. Basically, you need to do the dual authentication so that the Shared Service Provider cancrawl the site. John SharePoint911: SharePoint Consulting http://www.sharepointblogs.com/rossonmoss

Here's a good article on MOSS and intranets/extranets http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/08/16/702010.aspx and if you're going to setup Forms Authentication, this is a great resource (3 parts) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

Adding to what Ross said, we need to have our default zone as NTLM so it can crawl and can extend the web app to a different zone for authenticating using either Forms or SSO. RegardsVishwas MCTS, MCITP SharePoint 2010