Extranet Manager

Expose your SharePoint to your partners, customers, and employees with our Extranet manager feature

Your organization is growing and you need a way to share confidential information with your clients, partners, consultants, and sometimes even vendors.

Alexya’s™ Extranet manager feature offers an advanced solution for managing and sharing content and creating innovative solutions. It can be used to provide authenticated SharePoint access to all authorized external users via a secure extranet portal. The Extranet manager feature grants unique levels of access to information based on specific extranet access permissions levels. You can use the SharePoint Extranet to restrict user access to specific areas of the portal based on roles. This pre-packaged, secure Extranet for SharePoint uses best practices in information management and collaboration.

	Save Time & Money Building an extranet with SharePoint can be costly and time consuming. Our Extranet manager feature will enable you to deploy and get your extranet up and running within a day—no coding required!		Easy to Use Our Extranet manager feature will enable your users, analysts or IT personnel to quickly use the extranet. You will be amazed by the simplicity of the Extranet’s administration components.
	Ease your Collaboration with a Secure Extranet Most organizations need to share content, processes, and critical information with various people. Our Extranet manager feature will provide you all the required functionality to easily manage what people can access and work on. Best practices in security control are applied to this Alexya™ feature.		Give Power to your Users You will now have the ability to provide your various departments with a specific SharePoint site on the extranet, allowing them to manage and control access and content. The Extranet manager feature will enable each department to have its own specific extranet solution.
	Alexya™ and SharePoint Extranet manager is an Alexya™ feature built on SharePoint and Microsoft technologies. It also supports Alexya’s™ other features.

	Foundation	Standard	Enterprise
This Feature is available in these Alexya™ versions:

Features

• Offers the flexibility to designate certain users as Site Sponsors to perform routine administrative tasks
  • Sending invitations
  • Adding accounts
  • Unlocking accounts
  • Managing passwords
  • Granting access
  • Removing access
  • And more
• Bottlenecks and wait times are eliminated
  • Improved control over assignment of administrative responsibilities
  • May be based on SharePoint Group(s)
  • May be based on Membership Role(s)
  • Or both
• Ability to require users to agree with Terms and Conditions
• Ability to capture all site activity
• Allows administrators to track service levels and maintain compliance
• Works with Alexya’s™ Content transformation feature
  • Converting Documents to Many Popular Document Formats
  • Maintaining relationships with published and native content
• Ability to automate registration approval processes
• Membership management features
  • Adding and removing extranet accounts
  • Changing extranet account passwords
  • Locking extranet accounts based on last password change date or last login date
  • Unlocking extranet accounts
  • Approving or denying extranet accounts
  • Viewing members of extranet roles
  • Adding extranet users to extranet roles
  • Adding and removing extranet roles
• User creation and registration
  • Allows new extranet users to register for site access
  • Allows existing SharePoint users to register for site access
  • Supports invitation registration and anonymous registration for site acces
  • Allows requiring email verification during an anonymous registration
  • Allows an administrator to manually verify an email address used during a registration
• Ability to send invitations
  • To one or more desired extranet users.
• Allows an administrator to send an invitation URL manually
• Improved control of email notifications
  • Ability to customize notification content with a mail definition created by an administrator
  • Ability to define signatures for your notification emails
  • Ability to define the “From” address used by each notification email
  • Ability to “turn off” any unwanted notification.
• Reporting and monitoring features
  • To measure the extranet’s effectiveness
• Self-service features for extranet users
  • Resetting password or retrieving it when lost
  • Extranet account sign-up
  • Profile updating"
• Ability to choose between membership providers for the extranet user database
  • SQL
  • Active Directory
  • Other membership providers
• Ability to set security policies
  • At the site collection leve
  • At the site level.