Recorded Webinar: ExCM Extranet Online, Overview & Demo

Introducing ExCM Online, the Azure-hosted counterpart to our award-winning on-premises Extranet Collaboration Manager platform.

Presented by Jeff Cate, Founder and CEO of PremierPoint Solutions:

Webinar: ExCM Extranet Online

Join us on Wednesday, August 8, 12:00 PM - 1 PM Eastern U.S. time zone for:

Register here:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1263144639262281730

ExCM Extranet Online Beta Available Now!

Our customers have been asking for quite a while when would have a SaaS version of Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM) available.  Good news for those that have been waiting – we’ve just launched the beta and are hoping to go into production by early Fall!

The on-premises version of ExCM has been in use around the world since 2007 and has been our most popular product here at PremierPoint Solutions.  Organizations have loved its combination of features that provide for a highly-secure, highly-private, and easy-to-use B2B extranet platform.  We’ve worked hard to bring all of these same features into a Software as a Service version that offers all of the benefits of the cloud.

Can You Migrate SharePoint FBA SQL External User Accounts and Passwords to Office 365?

(Update as of August 2018:  This article is still accurate.  However, a new option for migrating on-premises FBA\SQL external user accounts is now available - ExCM Extranet Online.  Businesses with significant investments in on-premises SharePoint extranets now have the option  to use Office 365 for Intranet purposes and ExCM Extranet Online for extranet purposes.  ExCM Extranet Online supports seamless migration of SharePoint on-premises external user accounts and content.)

The short answer is: there is no way to do this and likely never will be.  Read on if you are interested in more details.

Background on SharePoint FBA and SQL External User Accounts

Using SharePoint’s forms-based authentication feature along with the SQL Membership Provider feature has been a very popular way to use SharePoint as an extranet platform for many years.  In many cases, after a company got their Intranet up and running on SharePoint, the next logical step was to provision a new Web Application for use as an extranet for collaborating with customers, vendors, etc.