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MOSS 2007 - TMG 2010 - InfoPath Forms

I have a friend with the following:

Public facing SharePoint site, accessed through TMG 2010. We would like to put an InfoPath form on the site that allows anonymous submissions. The vendor that is hosting the site/hardware is telling us it's not possible with TMG.

Anyone know the answer?

simonlimon

Hm,

I would try doing the following:

I assume your internal URL for the form is:

http://MOSSSERVER.Mydomain.com/Sites/Default/blablavla/DEfault.aspx

Am I Correct?

I would create a HTTPS publishing Rule where I would Publish The above website on a HTTPS Listener, And for the allowed path in the publish rule I would Enter http://MOSSSERVER.Mydomain.com/Sites/Default/blablavla/*. The Listener would have to be configured to "Not require authentication and not allow clients to authenticate directly"

The External URL would look like this:

Https://www.mydomain.com/Sites/Default/blablavla/DEfault.aspx

You could also make it prettier by mapping the Path

http://MOSSSERVER.Mydomain.com/Sites/Default/blablavla/*

to

Https://www.mydomain.com/default.aspx

Did the vendor specify a reason as to why this can't work?

You can also look a this, It might give you a hint:

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Publishing-Windows-Server-2008-SSL-VPN-Server-Using-ISA-2006-Firewalls-Part2.html

Find the part "Configure the ISA Firewall with an PPTP VPN Server, SSL VPN Server and CDP Web Publishing Rule"

Justin Smith

ASKER

This is the issue we get when submitting a form from an anonymous user. We were able to repeat the error in an environment without TMG:

"Form submission failed. (User: , Form Name: Test, IP: , Request: http://vm-park-outr/_layouts/Postback.FormServer.aspx, Form ID: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:Test:-myXSD-2010-08-20T17-43-26, Type: DataAdapterException, Exception Message: The form cannot be submitted to the following location: http://vm-park-outr/Test/2010-08-20T14_36_06.xml. There is a problem with the Web server. Make sure the Web server exists, try again later or contact the Web server administrator. Access denied.)"

simonlimon

So If I understand correctly, MOSS seems to be the problem, as it won't accept anonymous authentication?

Justin Smith

ASKER

yep. seems to be a common problem out there. no problem submitting anon to a list. but to a doc or form library, seems to be difficult.

simonlimon

On the other hand, have you added a mapping for the external URL to the MOSS server ?

simonlimon

does this help?

http://vspug.com/ervingayle/2006/10/13/enabling-anonymous-users-to-open-and-submit-data-via-infopath-forms-published-to-sharepoint-2007/

Justin Smith

ASKER

nope, we've already set that.