Chapter 12 -- Deploying SharePoint Portal Server in an Extranet Environment

Chapter 12

This chapter provides the procedures for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint^™ Portal Server 2001 across an extranet. This chapter defines an extranet as intranet resources that are accessible from the Internet, usually through a firewall. These procedures apply to a SharePoint Portal Server computer with one network interface card (NIC). The extranet deployment is not supported for dual-homed servers.

This chapter also defines the key terms used to describe deploying SharePoint Portal Server in an extranet environment, the various ways to access a workspace on your SharePoint Portal Server computer, and the tasks necessary to deploy SharePoint Portal Server in an extranet environment.