My Company's web--accessin git from outside of office

[madisonjoy]

I am new to this so thx for your patience

My Company's web--accessing it from outside of office..how is this done?
Am I missing something...its viewable @

http://companyweb/default.aspx

within our domain Would like to be view it using https

any help is great!
Jim

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

There are documentation on Microsofts website on how you can set it up. Also get the Administration guide and installation and planning guide from Microsoft if you have not downloaded them yet. I have put some links to both SharePoint Portal documents and Windows SharePoint Services, since you did not specify what you are running.

Documentation for SharePoint Portal Server:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-f586-4941-92f5-048bf00cf332&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...c1-164e-4f14-bf50-60c20d79978c&displaylang=en

Documentation for Windows SharePoint Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f6-8224-4b19-a6a4-3e33fa13d230&displaylang=en

There is a webcast about setting up an Extranet solution, but that is a bit more than what you are looking for but however it might give some tips&tricks.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032254785&Culture=en-US

might be of some help. It is a webcast on how to deploy.

If you want more webcasts about SharePoint then go to:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/webcasts/default.mspx

Hope it gives you some help.

Cheers,
Thomas

 

[madisonjoy]

I am using Share Point 2.0 I believe
To clarify I need our internal website viewable from remote locations (secure). Is this possible? And is it alot of work to set it up?
thx for your time
jim

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello Jim,

So I would then guess you are using Windows SharePoint Services V2 (WSS 2.0), the version that comes free with Windows Server 2003.

There are several ways of granting access for external (remote) users. Depending on how you want users to access the site and how many users we are talking about.

Putting the frontend webbserver on a DMZ and then enabling SSL (HTTPS) is one way of doing it. If there is only a smaller group of users that need access you might use secure VPN connections into your network instead (if you have that possibility)and setup accounts for these persons to be able to access SharePoint.

Check the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator guide (which I posted a link to in the previous message) there you will get information about how to use SSL.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[madisonjoy]

Windows SharePoint Services V2 (WSS 2.0), the version that comes free with Windows Server 2003. This is correct.

We have about 12 users and I require them to access through any secure internet connection. be it on their laptop remotely or a public computer.

Do i require a separate computer for the DMZ or can it be on the SBS we have? As for our firewall its a Watchguard Firebox X w/ vpn capibility

Muchas gracias for this help!!!
My techie is on vacation
jim

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello Jim,

If it is only 12 users then I would suggest that you actually use the Watchguard secure VPN capabilities.
Otherwise you would have to move the server to the DMZ or install another server hosting the SharePoint application.
But since you are running it on a SBS server then I would say that it is out of the question in moving that server anywhere since it most likely are hosting other services such as Domain Controller, Active Directory etc

I have used the Watchguard Firebox pretty much and used the VPN possibilites extensively and it has worked perfect and since you can encrypt the tunnels with 3DES that is good in security perspective.

When it comes to "public" computers the VPN might not be the best solution since they would probably have to either setup a VPN client or use the PPTP connection to the Firebox and doing this on a public computer could possibly be a security risk (it all depends on what "public" computer means). As you can see each solution has its Pros and Cons.

I am having users coming in via VPN to some of our SharePoint environments and that has worked pretty good, but usually the users are mobile and are using their own laptop och have a VPN connection setup at their home-pc.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[madisonjoy]

this helps alot
thank you for the advice
jim