>Hey Nancy,
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>>So, wouldn't the data server have to be made available via IIS, with yet another app serving the web service<
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>I might have interpreted Dmitry's situation incorrectly, but I think his data server is already available via IIS ... otherwise, how would his local intranet ASP.NET app be able to access the data? All he wants to do is move the ASP.NET app to an outside server. Then instead of having the ASP.NET app on his intranet be the one to "serve up the data", he'd simply be replacing it with a Web Service, and that would still have access to his data server. Right?

Whether he uses a Web Service or not he still has to open up at least part of the intranet to the Internet, yes? So the problem, IMO, is that.

I still do not see what adding additional programming of creating web services solves.