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License Question for public facing SharePoint

Asked By: Ladonna Aguirre Date: Oct 26, 2008 Category: Sharepoint Views: 287

Question about how to handle public facing SharePoint sites, how is licensing
controlled for public facing in SharePoint? ie. We want our home page for our
campus SharePoint to be visual to *all* without any authentication. To move
beyond an initial splash page we will provide a 'logon' button. Are we in
violation of Microsoft license if we do this? On one hand, I suspect there is a
connector license we need but, on the other hand if the user doesn't actually
interact with anything on SharePoint but view the content it is really nothing
more than an IIS page.

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2 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Kacey Russo Answered On: Oct 26, 2008

Licensing questions really should be directed to Microsoft as they are the only
ones that can provide you with answers that would hold up in court.

Answer #2 Answered By: Rebecca Lewis Answered On: Oct 26, 2008

But
technically you need both a Windows Server Internet connector license and a
MOSS Internet connector license to do an external facing site even if the
users are all anonymous read-only users. If there is sharepoint data
displayed on the home page then you must have a SharePoint license. You
could have a static web page in a regular IIS web site that will redirect to
sharepoint when people click a signin link without the license, but not one
served up by SharePoint.

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