Public site and intranet

Question

We currently have a MOSS 2007 public website for our company. It is using a publishing portal template. We have one web server and one database server to host this only user web applcation which has the only company site collection. On the server we also have shared provider service web application and cental admin application

Now we would like to start our intranet using MOSS,for exmaple, for departments, what is the best way to setup it and what special things need to be done?

1.To create subistes under our public website-current existing site collection and giving permissions to these department to access different subsites?

2. or to create another site collection different from our public site collection?

3.to create another web application?

Thanks

Answer 1

Xcao, 


Now we would like to start our intranet using MOSS,for exmaple, for departments, what is the best way to setup it and what special things need to be done?
Do you have this site already in the Public Website ? In that case you can just extend the Web application and use it. 
Else (If its not there in the Public Site), create a SiteCollection / Webapplication depending upon your need.

2. or to create another site collection different from our public site collection?
Do you mean to say that you want to create a new Site Collection in the Intranet site and you dont want it in the Public Website  ?

Please be more specific and clear in your queries.
 

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- Kiruthik http://www.kiruthik.com

Answer 2

You could really go with either of the 3 approaches, but it all comes down to how secure you want your data to be and whether you need to share information between the Internet and Intranet sites.  For example, #1 would be the easiest to share information but be the least secure.  #3 would be the most secure and allow you to use a separate SSP so that Intranet and Internet data wouldn't even be in the same index.

So the question is, how important is security?

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Answer 3

Thanks, John.

Answer 4

Were you able to figure out which would be the best option?

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Answer 5

I haven't yet. I think I have to go over with some people what are going to be used on intranet, initially and in the long run. we have our storage file servers, so we may not want to change to store all files in intranet in sharepoint.

Currently we only have a publishing site open to public.  A department requested to put some resources on line only be seen by domain users.
The request also cause our attention, we may need to consider to build intranet, since more departments may request like this. It's good to setup a good structure at the very begining.

At first I thought to setup a web application, but if we want link from our public site to this new web application, not sure if it works well.
To create a subsite under current site collection seems the easier.

It seems site collection may be the best, even best if I can create a separate database (I think using the stsadmin can)

I really don't know yet.  I think they all have advantages and disadvantages. 

Answer 6

  There are some big differences between the different approaches.  The biggest decision is normally between whether security is more important or ease of sharing information is more important.

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John
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Blog: http://www.rossonmoss.com
Twitter: JohnRossJr

MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007