SharePoint4RealFolks

Wow, who would try something so stupid.....We would. Don't worry about the why's, just focus on the how's. So essentially this is what the business wanted: Business Need - We have a rather large library of techincal manuals that we needed to expose to a specific vendor. These manuals are mostly in PDF but they also had forms that needed to be filled out and all other kinds of goodness. The vendor had a DNA alias on their side called manuals.site.com (yes, it's fake to protect the guilty). Internally our intranet was called intranet (and again, fake name). Internally we have Integrated security (NTLM) configured for our Intranet. Here is the kicker. They wanted the vendor to not have to use a username and password (or in other words) but come in as anonymous. Well so much for logging events. Anyway, we argued for a while and eventually got overruled. So off we went to set up our wacky solution. Ok, first of all, we had no extranet set up so we started with that. Here is

Let me introduce myself. My name is Stephen Schuster. I have been in IT for, well, a long time. I have done a bit of everything but my focus has always been in MS and in programming. Currently I am a manager for an IT Department of a Cargo Air Carrier in Wilmington, OH. We have deployed a server farm sharepoint wss3.0 implementation that I felt deserved a blog. Over the past year we have deployed just about every piece of Sharepoint from single server environments to multi-server farms. Reporting Services (Integrated mode), Forms Services, EXCEL Services, Project Server 2007 ans a ton more. We have extranet configurations and a really unique site configuration where each Department has it's own Content Database (database was unified under a single Content DB and was in the hundreds of Gig's). We went through the process of extracting sites and importing them, including the MySites as well. Sooooo... This blog will be about that. I'll try to post solutions to real-worl busin