Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

336 Part IV: Deployment Scenarios
Extending the Extranet Virtual Server
With the administration virtual server and configuration database in place, you can
extend the virtual server to host the extranet sites. You can use either the command
line or HTML Administration pages to extend the virtual server.
To extend the extranet virtual server
1. Open a command prompt window, and navigate to the \Program Files
\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\bin folder.
2. Run the following command to extend the extranet virtual server.
stsadm.exe -o extendvsinwebfarm -url https://www.servername.extranet.com
-vsname [-apcreatenew -adpidname -apidtype configurableid -apidlogin -apidpwd ]
The -vsname parameter is the IIS name of the internal virtual server you extended
earlier. For example, if you are using a site named “mysite” in IIS, the -vsname value
would be mysite. It is recommended that you create a new application pool for the
virtual server. Use a dedicated application pool account, not a user login account.
The application pool account for a virtual server does not need database owner
rights on the SQL Server computer. Note that the -du and -dp parameters are not
needed if you are using Windows authentication to connect to SQL Server.
To extend the virtual server using HTML Administration pages
1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click
SharePoint Central Administration.
2. In the Virtual Server Configuration section, click Extend or upgrade virtual
server.
3. On the Virtual Server List page, click the virtual server you want to extend.
4. On the Extend Virtual Server page, click Extend and map to another virtual
server.
5. On the Extend And Map To Database Another Virtual Server page, in the
Server Mapping section, in the Host name or IIS virtual server name list,
select the name of the host or virtual server that you want to use.
6. In the Application Pool section, click Create a new application pool.
7. Under Select a security account for this application pool, click Configurable.
8. In the User name box, type the domain account to use for the application pool.
You should use a dedicated account for this account rather than a user’s login
account. Also, you should use the same account for each application pool that
hosts the same content.
9. In the Password box, type the password for the account and then confirm it.