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Intranet?
dresdenphile
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I work for a small company, handling tech-support and updating the website. My boss has asked me to look into creating an Intranet to "facilitate communication."
How do I create this Intranet that only the people within the organization can access? My Google searches pretty much return one of two things:
1) "Here's how you make a website, hur hur. Now, make that yer Intranet! How? You make a website, weren't ya readin'?"
2) "Use SharePoint."
I know how to make a website, but it's the "only people in the building can access it" part that I'm struggling with. My boss tried SharePoint 2007 before I came to work here, but no one used it, so he doesn't want to use it.
Any resources/suggestions would be greatly appreciated (preferably in the free or close-to-free price range
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How do I create this Intranet that only the people within the organization can access? My Google searches pretty much return one of two things:
1) "Here's how you make a website, hur hur. Now, make that yer Intranet! How? You make a website, weren't ya readin'?"
2) "Use SharePoint."
I know how to make a website, but it's the "only people in the building can access it" part that I'm struggling with. My boss tried SharePoint 2007 before I came to work here, but no one used it, so he doesn't want to use it.
Any resources/suggestions would be greatly appreciated (preferably in the free or close-to-free price range
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Ding. Couple that with hooking into whatever sort of domain authentication you're running, and allowing only internal traffic, and bam, y'all done got yerself a simple intranet. I have a feeling your boss wants to have basically an internal company webpage that can be used as a homepage/announcement portal/company blog. That's fairly easy stuff.
Really, you're just making a web server that's only going to talk to the internal network.
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If it's just for internal communication you could always just setup a wiki on it. There are plenty of resources online for doing that on a simple IIS setup with windows.
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Additionally, to know what exactly you need, you need to know what exactly they want to do with it. Wikis are great for centrally storing information like Standard Operating Procedures or commonly used forms and that sort of thing, but if they want something that stores customer contact info or holds calendars for scheduling appointments and that sort of thing, something like SugarCRM (an open source Customer Relationship Manager) might be where you want to go, or even a combination of both (both run off web servers with a MySQL Database). The power of the system required to run these is entirely dependent on how many users access it and how often. For 10-20 users, you probably have a spare workstation around that could run a LAMP server (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP, the softwares commonly needed for these sorts of application; there are also WAMP servers, which are the same except on a Windows platform).
It depends on the scope. If the boss just wants a homepage that people will see with the corporate logo/slogan/inspirational message of the day, then I don't think he needs to contract out for that.
If they want Real-Time Convergence with Interactive Whiteboard Application Sharing and Other Buzzwords We Heard About From This Conference that All Sound Really Cool, then yes, contract out and stay the fuck away from the time-and-money-sink unless you're asked to meddle.
edit - I'm not trying to be a jerk either, in case this needs to be stated for some reason, you'd know if I was trying
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Be careful, though - you can absolutely open yourself up to some nice vulnerabilities if you don't watch what you are doing.
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Well, the OP asked the question more from a security standpoint (how to limit access to internal users), so I (personally) would more carefully consider the sensitivity of the information being handled rather than the complexity of the functionality provided in making a decision to bring someone in (if I were in his shoes). Regardless of the complexity of the application, if it's dealing with information like PII or PHI (such as an HR application would), it would probably be best to consult someone about the secure development and deployment of the application. If the OP doesn't know what PII or PHI are, then he should definitely bring in someone to consult about the development and deployment of the application. Do this during the development process - security isn't something you can bake on after a solution is deployed. But now we're getting into an SDLC and/or a C&A discussion and it all just gets very boring from here (and probably not applicable).
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Basically this. He wants to put links to inspirational videos and links. Aye yie yie.
Well in that case, make sure you punk them with goatse.
Ok then this is dead simple. Pick a server with some free cycles/storage. Download and install the free windows sharepoint services. Note that this isn't the same as sharepoint server, but it's built on the same core. Think MSDE vs SQL server.
This will give you what he wants, it runs pretty well right out of the box with default settings, plus you get to put some sharepoint admin experience on your resume.