Extranet SPS 2003 and MySite Link

Hello,

I have setup both an Intranet/Extranet SPS 2003 environment for our
organization. Everything is working fine except for one thing -- I
need my extranet users to be able to uthenticate against our external
site, thus giving them access to their MySite page. Currently, this is
not happening.

If an external user visit the site they get the plan looking anonymous
look to it... And in the top right corner is only the "Help" link. If
I try to go to the MySite link, instead of it prompting for
authentication it simply says access denied. I have checked IIS and I
have both anonymous and Integrated authentication turned on.

How can I get the portal side to prompt/or simply use the integrated
authentication to authenticate to the portal so my users can have
access to their MySite pages?

Tony
Fri Jun 02 14:08:07 CDT 2006

Anyone out there?

Tony wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have setup both an Intranet/Extranet SPS 2003 environment for our
> organization. Everything is working fine except for one thing -- I
> need my extranet users to be able to uthenticate against our external
> site, thus giving them access to their MySite page. Currently, this is
> not happening.
>
> If an external user visit the site they get the plan looking anonymous
> look to it... And in the top right corner is only the "Help" link. If
> I try to go to the MySite link, instead of it prompting for
> authentication it simply says access denied. I have checked IIS and I
> have both anonymous and Integrated authentication turned on.
>
> How can I get the portal side to prompt/or simply use the integrated
> authentication to authenticate to the portal so my users can have
> access to their MySite pages?

Shane
Fri Jun 02 14:43:34 CDT 2006

You didn't get an answer in 2 and half hours and you are complaining?

Why do you have anonymous set up on your portal? I don't understand why you
want the whole world accessing your company portal? Also, did you purchase
the SharePoint Portal Server external connector license?

In your scenario the best route is to have a different URL that
authenticated users will access. That way they are authenticated and they
will see the link to the My Site. This is the way I configure things in
your scenario.

--
Shane Young - SPS MVP
SharePoint911 - http://www.SharePoint911.com
Blog - http://msmvps.com/shane/



"Tony" <anthonypetito@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149275287.430353.38660@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Anyone out there?
>
> Tony wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have setup both an Intranet/Extranet SPS 2003 environment for our
>> organization. Everything is working fine except for one thing -- I
>> need my extranet users to be able to uthenticate against our external
>> site, thus giving them access to their MySite page. Currently, this is
>> not happening.
>>
>> If an external user visit the site they get the plan looking anonymous
>> look to it... And in the top right corner is only the "Help" link. If
>> I try to go to the MySite link, instead of it prompting for
>> authentication it simply says access denied. I have checked IIS and I
>> have both anonymous and Integrated authentication turned on.
>>
>> How can I get the portal side to prompt/or simply use the integrated
>> authentication to authenticate to the portal so my users can have
>> access to their MySite pages?
>

Hollis
Fri Jun 02 15:47:33 CDT 2006

In article <1149265842.342349.190380@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Tony
wrote:
> I have setup both an Intranet/Extranet SPS 2003 environment for our
> organization. Everything is working fine except for one thing -- I
> need my extranet users to be able to uthenticate against our external
> site, thus giving them access to their MySite page. Currently, this is
> not happening.
>
The Microsoft paper for deploying an Extranet is located at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-45
1D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en


--
Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA

Tony
Fri Jun 02 18:42:01 CDT 2006


Shane Young [SPS MVP] wrote:
> You didn't get an answer in 2 and half hours and you are complaining?

I wasn't complaining. My apologies if it sounded like I was.

> Why do you have anonymous set up on your portal? I don't understand why you
> want the whole world accessing your company portal? Also, did you purchase
> the SharePoint Portal Server external connector license?

> In your scenario the best route is to have a different URL that
> authenticated users will access. That way they are authenticated and they
> will see the link to the My Site. This is the way I configure things in
> your scenario.

Maybe I didn't explain our setup correctly. Yes, we have already
purchased the external connector license. We also already have
Sharepoint setup as you describe. We have one site for our internal
users that has only integrated enabled and the external site is setup
to handle any external users (this site has anonymous and integrated
turned on). They are 2 seperate URLs that the the user can access.

Our problem is that we have external users that still need to access
items at the portal levle, more specifically items they keep in the
MySite area. Right now, they can authenticate using a user/pass in any
WSS site, however, when they try to access something on the portal side
they get access denied.

Any ideas on whats wrong here?

Shane
Fri Jun 02 21:04:09 CDT 2006

That is just how Portal works. It doesn't like anonymous and authenticated
users from the same URL. WSS works very well (SharePoint911.com is an
example). So what I have done in your scenario is have the url
http://portal.company.com that my users access from both internal and
external using integrated auth. Then for my anonymous users they access the
same portal from http://public.company.com. Portal just doesn't work well
where I access http://public.company.com and try to get it to log me on.

Does that clear it up for you?


--
Shane Young - SPS MVP
SharePoint911 - http://www.SharePoint911.com
Blog - http://msmvps.com/shane/



"Tony" <anthonypetito@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1149291721.412930.202950@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Shane Young [SPS MVP] wrote:
>> You didn't get an answer in 2 and half hours and you are complaining?
>
> I wasn't complaining. My apologies if it sounded like I was.
>
>> Why do you have anonymous set up on your portal? I don't understand why
>> you
>> want the whole world accessing your company portal? Also, did you
>> purchase
>> the SharePoint Portal Server external connector license?
>
>> In your scenario the best route is to have a different URL that
>> authenticated users will access. That way they are authenticated and
>> they
>> will see the link to the My Site. This is the way I configure things in
>> your scenario.
>
> Maybe I didn't explain our setup correctly. Yes, we have already
> purchased the external connector license. We also already have
> Sharepoint setup as you describe. We have one site for our internal
> users that has only integrated enabled and the external site is setup
> to handle any external users (this site has anonymous and integrated
> turned on). They are 2 seperate URLs that the the user can access.
>
> Our problem is that we have external users that still need to access
> items at the portal levle, more specifically items they keep in the
> MySite area. Right now, they can authenticate using a user/pass in any
> WSS site, however, when they try to access something on the portal side
> they get access denied.
>
> Any ideas on whats wrong here?
>

Tony
Mon Jun 05 08:54:37 CDT 2006

Shane,

Thanks for the info.

Shane Young [SPS MVP] wrote:
> That is just how Portal works. It doesn't like anonymous and authenticated
> users from the same URL. WSS works very well (SharePoint911.com is an
> example). So what I have done in your scenario is have the url
> http://portal.company.com that my users access from both internal and
> external using integrated auth. Then for my anonymous users they access the
> same portal from http://public.company.com. Portal just doesn't work well
> where I access http://public.company.com and try to get it to log me on.
>
> Does that clear it up for you?
>
>
> --
> Shane Young - SPS MVP
> SharePoint911 - http://www.SharePoint911.com
> Blog - http://msmvps.com/shane/
>
>
>
> "Tony" <anthonypetito@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1149291721.412930.202950@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Shane Young [SPS MVP] wrote:
> >> You didn't get an answer in 2 and half hours and you are complaining?
> >
> > I wasn't complaining. My apologies if it sounded like I was.
> >
> >> Why do you have anonymous set up on your portal? I don't understand why
> >> you
> >> want the whole world accessing your company portal? Also, did you
> >> purchase
> >> the SharePoint Portal Server external connector license?
> >
> >> In your scenario the best route is to have a different URL that
> >> authenticated users will access. That way they are authenticated and
> >> they
> >> will see the link to the My Site. This is the way I configure things in
> >> your scenario.
> >
> > Maybe I didn't explain our setup correctly. Yes, we have already
> > purchased the external connector license. We also already have
> > Sharepoint setup as you describe. We have one site for our internal
> > users that has only integrated enabled and the external site is setup
> > to handle any external users (this site has anonymous and integrated
> > turned on). They are 2 seperate URLs that the the user can access.
> >
> > Our problem is that we have external users that still need to access
> > items at the portal levle, more specifically items they keep in the
> > MySite area. Right now, they can authenticate using a user/pass in any
> > WSS site, however, when they try to access something on the portal side
> > they get access denied.
> >
> > Any ideas on whats wrong here?
> >