SharePoint Hosting – How to Collaborate With External Parties In SharePoint?
Opening up an internal SharePoint farm to the Internet in order to share resources with external parties might seem a good idea, because it helps avoiding expensive infrastructure changes. However, in terms of security, this is not recommended because it does not sufficiently protect internal resources from external threats. The protection of internal resources hinges on the security-level of the Windows Server operating system, the SharePoint product and the deployed 3rd party code. In other words, if security patches are not…
