Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Creating an Extranet Service Application Proxy Group

SharePoint 2010 offers a distributed model for shared services or service applications. Web applications themselves subscribe to use the various service applications. Application proxy groups can be created to define a set of service applications. It is recommended that extranet web applications, one or more application proxy groups be created to ensure only minimum required service applications are enabled for use in the extranet web applications. The following PowerShell commands show how to create a new application proxy group:

1. Open a SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell console and navigate to Start, All Programs, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
2. Use the following ...