Securely extend your SharePoint collaboration environment or custom ASP.NET applications environment to business partners and customers without compromising internal security. The EmpowerID SharePoint and .NET Extranet Directory Solution allows SharePoint 2007 extranets and other .NET applications to be accessed by extranet users without the need to create user accounts for them in your internal Active Directory. It uses its own Metadirectory to simultaneously support secure access by both internal Active Directory users and extranet users.

Supporting external users in the corporate directory is an expensive drain on IT resources magnified by the rapid proliferation of extranet sites and the users and groups that they require. EmpowerID insulates your internal directories and domains from extranet users by allowing external SharePoint users to be created and managed in the powerful EmpowerID Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Metadirectory. The EmpowerID Metadirectory is a fully compliant .NET Membership and Role Provider directory that can be used by any .NET 2.0 or greater application that supports this method of authentication and authorization. EmpowerID's workflow and role-based framework simplifies the management of SharePoint extranet user provisioning by enabling SharePoint site administrators to manage extranet partners and users. The EmpowerID Metadirectory supports multiple organizations accessing the same shared resources while maintaining security, privacy, and confidentiality.

EmpowerID's roles control partner user permissions and enable partner administrators and users to approve and review workflow-based requests for site access or re-activation. This solution allows the granular delegation of extranet user management tasks to partner organizations. This reduces costs, while increasing responsiveness, security and compliance.

• Maintains SharePoint extranet user accounts in the EmpowerID directory separate from your internal Active Directory
• Automated workflow-based user self-registration and requests for site access
• All workflow-driven processes provide inherent security, routing, approvals, and compliance reporting
• Role-based access control automatically grants and revokes access when a user's role or location changes
• Self-service password change, forgotten password reset, and account unlock for extranet users
• User profile self-service with workflow approvals
• Enforces second factor authentication access for your Extranet applications using the flexible EmpowerID Login workflow
• One-time password login support
• System access can be expired with time-based access grants

The EmpowerID Extranet Directory solution provides all of the functionality and user interfaces offered in our Password Manager module, Role Enforcer for Users module, and Role Enforcer for Groups module with access to the EmpowerID Metadirectory. Access to Active Directory or any other external directories is accomplished with the addition of Role Enforcer and Connect modules.