MOSS: ISA impact on InfoPath and SharePoint Designer

Question

Greetings all,

We are building a MOSS instance and would like to use ISA to accomodate 2-factor authentication with an RSA token being the second factor. http requests to my portal url are being recieved by ISA, which performs the 2 factor authentication, and then passes the data back and forth to/from my moss portal.

I'm wondering if this is going to impact my ability to publish infopath forms and/or open the site using sharepoint designer, as both these tools require authentication but their native authentication prompt only seems to accomodate single factor authentication.

Is anyone familiar with integrating such technologies? Is their a way to do it? Open to all suggestions.

Regards,
Lou Sanderson

Answer 1

Moving to General as it isn't SP Admin and it covers several forums.

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Answer 2

thanks Mike

Answer 3

I'm soon to be doing the exact same thing with the extranet using 2-factor via RSA + ISA, so I will be testing/troubleshooting the use of SPD/InfoPath through this proxy, but I can't help you as of today.

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Answer 4

Lou,

Doing a little readng it would seem that ISA server has a little bit of setup and configuration that must be done as noted in the following to blog articles:

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/02/07/walk-through-for-rsa-securid-authentication-for-isa-server-2006-part-1-rsa-authentication-manager-server-configuration.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/02/07/walk-through-for-rsa-securid-authentication-for-isa-server-2006-part-2-isa-array-members-preparation.aspx

For the authentication provider, I would check to see if it is NTLM based or Kerberos based.

HTH

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Answer 5

any insights dan?