Extranets and Intranet Planning Resources with WSS v3 & SharePoint Server 2007

Planning, Designing & Securing an Extranet and Internet Facing WSSv3 and SharePoint Server 2007 Environments

Note: Many of these resources require the beta 2 control or that your client is running Office 2007 beta 2 or higher. You can download the and install the control to access the documents.

Administrator Documentation

First get familiar with the administrator documentation

Windows SharePoint Services (version 3)

Office SharePoint Server 2007

Security & Hardening Guide

The most important document is the security guide which was written for both WSS v3 & Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Plan & Design Security for WSSv3 & SharePoint 2007

Here are some sections from the guide:

Server Farm Security
Secure Communication: IPSEC & SSL
Server hardening
Application server recommendations
Secure communication with the SQL Database
Single sign-on hardening requirements
Restricting DCOM Ports
Service requirements for e-mail integration
Service requirements for session state
Windows SharePoint Services/Office SharePoint Server services
Accounts and Groups
Web.config file

Planning Architecture & Design

Some new sections were recently posted to TechNet. There are quite a few sections missing here. From here you can navigate to related WSS or Project Server content.

· Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007

· Plan overall design

· Plan site structure and navigation (Office SharePoint Server)

Operations

Key operational sections that relate to any environment. Some of the sections are missing. Use the navigation to see related WSS sections. Don't be disapointed by missing sections here.

· Operations for Office SharePoint Server 2007

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administration

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 Backup and Restore

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 Monitoring

Security and protection for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Authentication

Plan Authentication Methods

This article describes the authentication methods that are supported by Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

In this article:

•	About authentication
•	Supported authentication methods
•	Configure authentication
•	Choose methods of authentication allowed in your environment
•	Complete the "Authentication Methods" worksheet

Plan Authentication Settings

This article presents the authentication configuration settings that need to be planned for individual Web applications in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

In this article:

•	Plan authentication settings
•	Plan authentication exclusions
•	Sample authentication configurations

Resource Models

These files are poster-sized documents created in Microsoft Office Visio. If you do not have Visio installed, you can download a free viewer. A plotter works best for printing these files.

Infrastructure Platform Models

Model: Windows SharePoint Services Base Topologies

Model: Office SharePoint Server Baseline Site Hierarchies

Model: Office SharePoint Server Application Security

Model: Office SharePoint Server Database Administration

Model: Office SharePoint Server Backup and Restore

Internet & Extranet Models

Model: Office SharePoint Server Extranet Topologies

Model: Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Content Management

Scenarios

These files are poster-sized documents created in Microsoft Office Visio. If you do not have Visio installed, you can download a free viewer.

You won’t use all of these, but they may be useful in planning.

Enterprise Content Management - Customer Engagement Cycle
Large Corporate Internet Site (Infrequent Changes to Web Content)
Online News Internet Site (Frequent Web Content Updates and Searching)
Office SharePoint Server Out-Hosted Portal Sites (ASPs)
Office SharePoint Server Out-Hosted Portal Sites (ASPs)
Windows SharePoint Services Partner Web (Extranet)
IT Department Hosting of Windows SharePoint Services Sites (inc extranet)
ISP Hosting of Windows SharePoint Services Sites
InfoPath Forms Services Customer Interaction Form

Web Casts & Conference Sessions

The web casts are overviews. The PPTs are available below, but the SharePoint Conference Sessions audio/video can be viewed from the SharePoint Conference DVD.

Web Casts

Microsoft Web Cast - Preparing for Web Content Management with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Arpan Shah & Manish Sharma

Microsoft Web Cast - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Overview & What’s New – Mike Fitzmaurice

Web Content Management

SharePoint Conference 2006 ECM220: Building an Internet-Facing Web Site Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Perantatos

SharePoint Conference 2006 ECM318: Migrating Your Content Management Server 2002 Web Sites To Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Butler

Extranets & Topologies

SharePoint Conference 2006 COL308: Extranets And Internet Facing Environments In The Real World – Oleson & Ofori

SharePoint Conference 2006 ADM303: Windows SharePoint Services And Office SharePoint Server Administration Part 2 Advanced Topologies

Groove

SharePoint Conference 2006 COL204: Why Groove 2007 - Lowell

Security & Authentication