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by vern1271

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My company wants to setup a intranet portal for employees that can be accessed from the office (use Active directory for access) and from the internet...here is where I need help...they also want to set up multiple smaller sites that will be attached to the intranet site where clients and partners can download or upload information. Is this possible or should they all be separate sharepoint sites?

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by daveo2000

I will forward this link to Steffi who is our local SP07 hack. No, we aren't TR reps, just plain folks.

by steffi28

From what I understand that you want, it does require different SharePoint sites, and by this I dont mean different sites under the same main site (I dont think thats what you meant either,just trying to clarify myself) this should be easy enough to do by just adding different ports the the site when creating a site in WSS, eg, ~site:81 ~site:82 and so on meaning you wont need more than one copy of SharePoint and you wont need more than one server to run it on either.

I hope I've cleared this up a bit for you, but if you need any more information just ask :D

by daveo2000

I believe that you can also set this up as all standard port 80 stuff by using port forwarding on a router/firewall. Hide the SharePoint server behind a port forwarding firewall and map different URLs to the various ~site:ports on the SharePoint server.

Sound like a plan (or a mess?)

by steffi28

You lost me after the words port forwarding ?:| Maybe he knows what your talking about though!

by vern1271

Thanks, I was lost in a sea of Microsoft jargon and wasn't sure I could implement all this in ONE site collection. The question comes down to access & security. Our employees will be set up through active directory for the intranet side, but how do I keep partners and customers from getting to these? The customer sites will only be used for implementations (we provide Human Resource & Payroll software) and once done, the site will be deleted. So there will be several of these going at once...all the time. The other site is strictly for partners that sell our products for us. They need to be able to download spec sheets, images, or whatever. I appreciate all the help. Thanks.

by daveo2000

Folks here get a private thrill from getting a "thumbs up" vote when they answer questions. Steffi is still a virgin (in this territory) and is looking longingly towards her first vote. :D

by steffi28

In that respect with the access its all to do with persmissions that the administrator gives out, you would just have to give different users different restrictions on the sites you want them to be allowed on, I know there is a way of not allowing people to go on the site at all but I'm not entirely sure about that as I'm not the administrator of our site, and permissions isnt something I've looked into too heavily, I know its easy enough to give out permissions though, and I think (when logged on as administrator and after the administrator has added the usernames passwords to the site, again something I'm not sure on how to do) on the homepage it can be accessed for the Site Actions bar, then site settings, this should be in the first coloumn under something like site permissions.

I know these permissions can also be set through WSS on the server but once again thats something im not 100% sure on, and I think its easier doing it through the SharePoint site.

by daveo2000

Oops. I meant proxy server and not port forwarder.

Port forwarding simply takes the packtes that arrive on one IP address on a specific port and forwards them to another IP address on (possibly) another port. This is usually used to put a web server behind a firewall.

A proxy server can take requests to a URL and forward them to other URLs with other ports.

Do you want a deeper explanation on that?

by steffi28

But I think it's still way over my head :(

by daveo2000

and more in not being in your area of interest. It is amazing what we can learn when we have to! :)

by steffi28

This time 6 months ago theres no way I would of been able to answer that question at all, or even slightly get a grasp of what your saying, so maybe I just have to carry on with the learning :)

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