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Setting Up a Sitecore Extranet

December 26, 2011

I've recently needed to setup an extranet for several websites and began researching. There are several helpful articles on the topic. I found bolaky.net and blog.wojciech.org as well as using Sitecore's Security API and Security Administrator cookbooks. Although there was enough information to get me started, what I found was disjointed and there were a few specifics that weren't detailed. After some testing I was able to create a functioning extranet and in an effort to create a more comprehensive article I have detailed my results.

1. Create Extranet Sublayouts

The first thing you'll want to

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Fix Broken User Manager

June 1, 2011

I've long given up on using the User Manager paging buttons until yesterday when looking over the known issues, I found an article describing a solution to my problem on SDN. Knowing at least one other individual that has had the same issue I thought I'd do a write up to bring attention to it so that the anyone else with the same issue can get back use of their user manager.  

The problem was that on the UserManager, the paging buttons (shown below) simply didn't work.

 

With a long list of users I would often cringe at the thought of the day when I wouldn't know the name of the user I was trying

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