There are a few challenges still with BPOS / Office365. As with many things, moving into the cloud environment also means ensuring that the environment offers the features you need and also meets the compliance requirements that may apply to your business.
Given some of your writing, I suspect you may be based in a country outside of the US. You will want to pay attention to data center location and know that it goes off of the location fields related to the live ID who creates the account in the standard environment, and a negotiated placement if in the dedicated environment. Also if your portal will be anonymous access at all, that takes dedicated completely off the table for now. The final caveat is that federated identity really wont be fully supported until RTM of office365 so like I said, know what you need in a portal platform if you want to consider the MSO solutions so that you have a chance to really examine whats available on the 9.x BPOS environment and what changes when you consider doing your deployment on Office365. The platform is getting better but in my experience it takes about 3 revisions of an offering from Microsoft to get to really good enterprise usability and Office 365 is something like 2 and a half :) -W -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eduardo Navarro Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:26 AM To: mamo; Anupam Kumar Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hardening Sharepoint 2010 on Win 2008 R2 ?I would suggest you look into Sharepoint Cloud offerings. I think it is the best of both worlds. You wont need to harden the server, services, etc. Just place your effort on administration and auditing. I am pretty sure that Sharepoint does very well with maintaining change history on content pages. You can link your company accounts and LDAP to this sharepoint for authentication so you would be missing nothing in terms of user management. -Eduardo -----Original Message----- From: mamo Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 7:24 AM To: Anupam Kumar Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hardening Sharepoint 2010 on Win 2008 R2 Hello. We have quite complex policy that is not possible to summarize on a mailing list. Some important point for me specific for this project (it is a public web site): - The front end on internet need to a have a secure in depth configuration (if one level fail, I don't want to have all site compromised). I am looking both on configuration to be applied to the front end and to the backend. - I want to have a strong auditing level on who does what in changing the content of the site to be able to analise possible compromise/mistake with the change functionality. Thank you. Mamo On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Anupam Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mamo, > > There is no definitive guide that can be given as it depends > completely on the security policy of your company. I work for Capital > One and almost everything is disabled due to security. However, I am > also aware from past experiences that some companies hardly follow any > hardening procedures. To answer your question better, please let us know what is your requirement. > What kind of security are you looking at? > > Knowing this is critical before something can be suggested. > > Regards > Anupam Kumar > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, mamo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> My company is working on the new internet web site. >> It is going to be based on Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 2008 R2. >> >> They are very new platform (very very new for me :-( ). Do you know >> of any hardening guide for Sharepoint 2010? Can you give me pointers >> on Windows 2008 Hardening or security checklist? >> >> Thank you in advance. >> Mamo > >
