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Public-Facing SharePoint Sites

“Can we use SharePoint for our public-facing site? What benefit is there for us if we do?”

These are questions I get all the time in the field, usually coming from customers who have already had some level of exposure to SharePoint. Organizations have been adopting SharePoint and it's been spreading throughout their business areas, gaining a lot of traction with users. People like what it is doing for them, so the progression to looking at it for public-facing web content is a fairly natural one.

Having said that, the decision to use SharePoint for a public-facing site is one that is usually met with a lot more scrutiny from a business. An organization's public web site is very important to ...

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