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Hi all

I need to pick your expert knowledge to answer a question that seems to be a difficult to answer as the 'Which came first the Chicken or the Egg"!!

I work for an medium size comany with an in house development team, the guys in the dev teams have latched on to moss and wss as there new application delivery portal.

But like all good dev teams money seems to be the last thought in their minds, I need to know how to licence moss enterprise (we have to have enterprise as we want the BDC, BI and excel services) for use with both internal and external users?

The internal users we want to use AD logins but the external we need to use forms based authentication.

My thoughts so far are to have 2 farms, as i understand you can't use mixed licencing modules and there is a moss 2007 web version but does this allow the use of forms based authentivaion with out extra cost in CALs?

Any help would be great

Edward Hewer

Hi Edward,

MOSS licencing is complex subject.  MOSS is licenced on two models CALs and Non employee licence.  CALs are known users and Non employee (also known as Internet Connector licence) is when you don't know how many users are connecting to SharePoint and who they are (public facing websites).

So if you have the CAL licence for SharePoint 2007 Enterpise you can use this internally as an Intranet and Externally as an Extranet (as long as they are known users and you have bought enough CALs).  Extranets typically use the same content from the intranet, they are an extended web application providing a new entry point to SharePoint and using a different authentication model (such as Forms Auth against AD or SQL Server).

Hope this helps

Dave

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I have sort of the same issue: How much does it really cost?

• You need the enterprise version of MS SQL Server
• You need a dedicated MS Server (Longhorn) for SQL
• You need another dedicated server for MOSS 2007
• MOSS 2007 Connector License
• Other MS MOSS Addons- BI etc
• I'm looking a CorasWorks, too  ($22K US)
  

I my estimate with hardware is about $125,000.  I might be a little lite on the estimate but once you get over $100K who cares?

Hi,

There is no need for having two separate site collections. You could use one site collection for both intranet and extranet if you want to.

Then restict access to internal documents to Intranet users only.