SharePoint Extranet Solutions with ISA Server 2006 – Part 1: Teaser

Over the next few weeks, I plan to publish a series of posts describing how to publish a SharePoint Extranet solution using ISA Server 2006. The Objectives are:

Access and URLs:

• partners use https://extranet.sharepointnotes.local at all times
• internal users use http://extranet.sharepointnotes.local when sitting on the internal, trusted LAN 

Authentication

• Internal users authenticate the corporate AD
• External users authenticate using an AD in the DMZ
• The ISA Server is member of the corporate LAN

URLs 

• The public URL must always be http://extranet.sharepointnotes.local or https://extranet.sharepointnotes.local regardless of what web application / zone the user is redirected to internally

The ingredients include – but are not limited to – the following:

• ISA Server 2006
• Active Directory
• DNS
• Stand-alone Root CA
• Multiple ISA SharePoint Publishing rules
• At least one web application extended to use multiple zones
• Alternate Access Mappings

The inspiration for the series are the following articles:

• What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 1 of 3)
• How to use WSS v3 with ADAM for user authentication  

Tag along – it should be good fun

Update: Initially, I wanted to do this series using ADAM, and although ADAM works with MOSS – it doesn’t seem to be supported combined with ISA Server 2006. So we are using a stand-alone Active Directory instead.