SamS
Mon Jul 07 21:58:56 CDT 2008
I see no issue giving them access to their SSP site, if they have one.
The problem here is to accomodate their request might be too late as this
would have been planned in the planning stage with all the different
options. If it was to process, look at migrating their environment to a new
MOSS instance
"callahan" <cacallahan@NOSPAM.computer.org> wrote in message
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> Or, possibly, they deployed separate virtual machines for the clients,
> either setup with their own AD, or using the server's SAM for
> authentication.
>
> -callahan
> "AJ" <andyjones99@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 4 Jul, 20:07, "John Timney \(MVP\)" <xyz_j...@timney.eclipse.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> What exactly are they wanting to access via central admin. I certainly
>> wouldn't let them near it just because they asked!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.comhttp://www.johntimney.com/blog
>>
>> "AJ" <andyjone...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>>
>> news:079f51c2-4085-43c4-9aaa-0b80aeafb973@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hello All
>>
>> > We host a few sharepoint 2007 sites for a few clients (SPLA). The way
>> > our setup is configured at the moment is that we configure their top
>> > level site for them and just provide them with an access URL, they
>> > dont get access to Central Admin. Therefore If anything is required to
>> > be enabled on the server, for example the InfoPath forms service, they
>> > request this via a support ticket.
>>
>> > We now have the requirement to provide a dedicated service to a
>> > specific customer who wants to be able to use Central Admin. The
>> > problem as I see it is that the dedicated service is in our hosting AD
>> > domain and therefore they could cause problems and also probably
>> > browse our AD (?)
>>
>> > Is there a way,apart from creating them in their own domain, that we
>> > can stop them interogating our hosting AD?
>>
>> > What are the real risks if we let them lose with central admin on a
>> > MOSS server in our hosting domain.
>>
>> > Any thoughts and advice would be most welcome.
>>
>> > Thanks
>>
>> > Andy- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Hi John
> Thanks for your input. I think this is the stance that we are going to
> take. However I have seen other companies that offer full central
> admin access so I was also curious to how they did this. I guess they
> deployed a seperate AD forest specifically for that customer, or is
> there someway this can be done using forms based authentication and
> SQL server as the accounts repository?
> Thanks
> Andy
>