Integrating SharePoint and Community Server

Hans Hugli, a friend of mine (we worked together on Microsoft's evangelism team during the heady dot-com days) and developer on Microsoft's UberDemo team wrote up a great article on SharePoint and Community Server integration. Below is an excerpt:

The business scenario discussed in this article is how to enable Community Server site users to log on to sites that are running Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, by using the same credentials they use to log on to their Community Server site. Much of this article is based on Steve Peschka's post on the official Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies blog. I recommend reading through his blog to get a better understanding of how this works by using SharePoint Products and Technologies. The blog entry describes how to integrate the membership database of Community Server with the security model used in SharePoint Products and Technologies. This article assumes a limited knowledge of Community Server, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Microsoft ASP.NET.

You can get the complete article here.

If you are a SharePoint & Community Server customer let me know, I'd actually love to chat with you about some of our plans to integrate the two.

We're also looking to hire a developer who knows SharePoint (or wants to learn) to set the foundation for our SharePoint and Community Server integration plans.

Published Friday, December 07, 2007 7:40 AM by Rob Howard

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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:14 AM by jayson knight

I'm diving head first into SharePoint right now here at work (our environment is > 2000 site collections), and I'm actually trying to make a case to the business to use the blog portion of CS instead the built in (terrible) MOSS blog when we roll with MOSS 2007. You know how to reach me if you'd like to have some conversations offline; I'd love to be a part of this in any way possible. Definitely a good move on Telligent's part though, and I was just thinking about this very topic recently and sketching out some plans to integrate the 2 in our environment.

# re: Integrating SharePoint and Community Server

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:19 AM by Gretchen

I own a small business and we are currently using a hosted Sharepoint site through Intermedia (i believe they only offer sharepoint 2003 on a hosted basis otherwise we would have sharepoint 2007) - I want to migrate to a public site that has access priveliges and is able to charge for sale of product - is my only option to buy the big $45,000 Sharepoint server package from microsoft (i hope not :) )