06.01.09

Isolated Sharepoint site on SBS2008

Posted in OS, sbs2008 at 7:30 pm by webmaster

There are many applications that call for having the ability to have users share information in Sharepoint both internally and externally to organizations.  It is very easy to setup this ability within Small Business Server 2008 and to provide isolation from the rest of the network resources as well.  (The same concept can also be done in SBS2003 but it is done a bit differently)

The first step is to ensure you are currently licensed for the number of users you are going to be using. 

The second step is create your users and to tweak them so they do not have access to your other resources:

  1. Create new user using SBS Console
    1. Users and Groups
    2. Add a new User
      1. First name
      2. Last name
      3. Username
      4. Email Address (I add an external contact and forward later on)
      5. Standard User
    3. Type Strong Password
    4. Add User
    5. Do not allocate a computer just click finish
  2. Edit Account Properties
    1. Highlight User
    2. Edit User Account Properties
    3. Remove “Disable User can access RWW” on Remote Access menu
      1. Groups
      2. Remove “Sharepoint Membership Group” on Groups menu
      3. Remove OWA from websites menu

         The third step is to create a new Sharepoint site with unique permissions.

        1. Login as Administrator

        2. Navigate to companyweb in browser

        3. Create a new Sharepoint Site with limited rights

          1. Companyweb  –> Site Actions –> Create
          2. Sites and Workspace
            1. Name                                    mysite

            2. Description                           Mysite Description

            3. URL                                        https://remote.DN:987/mysite

            4. Document Workspace

            5. Permissions                          Use Unique Permmisions

            6. Nav                                        No        

            7.                                               Yes

            8. Nav inheritance                     No

          3. I prefer to create a seperate visitors groups so the site can be totally independant of all other sites/settings
            1. Visitors                                  Mysite Visitors
            2. Members                               MysiteMembers
            3. Owners                                 MysiteOwners
          4. Access the site https://remote.DN:987/mysite

        That should do it.

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