Manage outside access to our web pages

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We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read access
for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web server for
customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature, presentations,
and so on.

We want to do the following:

1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.
2. Manage where those accounts can go.
3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to
what.
4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.
5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up
thinking they can improve it.
6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the person
can access.

There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,
Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in there
is a page with links to all the products and information that you are
allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a package
out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?
 
Jordan,
1) Active Directory accounts
2) NTFS permissions
3) Group memberships
4) The Dot Net Factory
5) Its standard
6) IIS
Its all standard in W2K3. You can use SharePoint to create the portal if you
prefer. SSL will provide security.
I would take a look at SharePoint,
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.co.uk


"Jordan" <none@here.com> wrote in message
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> We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read access
> for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web server for
> customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature, presentations,
> and so on.
>
> We want to do the following:
>
> 1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.
> 2. Manage where those accounts can go.
> 3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to
> what.
> 4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.
> 5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up
> thinking they can improve it.
> 6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the
> person can access.
>
> There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,
> Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in there
> is a page with links to all the products and information that you are
> allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a
> package out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?
>
>
 
Thanks,

Although I could just create another separate domain and can easily manage
it myself, AD way is a little more complicated and much more expensive that
what I had in mind. Accounts in IIS/Windows need to be licensed per user if
using AD to manage security and logons.

When I went to the Visual Studio 2005 launch they demoed how to develop an
app that did something similar to what I desire. It used V.S. and a SQL
Express engine to house information like logons and the site wizard
developed a pretty basic site that allowed users to request accounts via a
web page and the admin of the site to approve the account and the areas. I
was told something like this did not require more licenses beyond the
IUSR_ComputerName and IWAM_Computername accounts.


"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@no-reply.com> wrote in message
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> Jordan,
> 1) Active Directory accounts
> 2) NTFS permissions
> 3) Group memberships
> 4) The Dot Net Factory
> 5) Its standard
> 6) IIS
> Its all standard in W2K3. You can use SharePoint to create the portal if
> you prefer. SSL will provide security.
> I would take a look at SharePoint,
> Anthony
> http://www.airdesk.co.uk
>
>
> "Jordan" <none@here.com> wrote in message
> news:%23%23rCeMxyIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> We are using W2003 to host a website and an FTP site. We have read
>> access for everyone. We want to start putting things up on our web
>> server for customers and vendors like vendor and customer literature,
>> presentations, and so on.
>>
>> We want to do the following:
>>
>> 1. Give customers, reps, and vendors usernames and passwords.
>> 2. Manage where those accounts can go.
>> 3. Allow our internal Sales and Engineers to manage who has the access to
>> what.
>> 4. Have it be so easy that a sales person can run it.
>> 5. Have it be something good enough that the engineers don't mess it up
>> thinking they can improve it.
>> 6. Preferably have somthing that straight forward access to what the
>> person can access.
>>
>> There are some software vendors out there like Mentor Graphics, Ansys,
>> Xilinx, and so on where they give you an account and when you log in
>> there is a page with links to all the products and information that you
>> are allowed to download. We would like something like that. Is there a
>> package out there for Windows 2003 server that can do this?
>>
>>
>
>
>
 
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