Internet Facing Deployment (IFD)

Originally when MSCRM 4.0 came out it appeared that in order to set up a site with an Internet Facing Deployment it could only be done through the install. Meaning, once installed you would have to uninstall and then reinstall in order to get the IFD working.
Microsoft has recently come out with a tool to change any existing site from IFD to regular On-Premise setup. And on top of that they even have a Knowledge Base article that steps you through using the tool and changing your site set up. I know there have been some other blog posts about this but Microsoft just updated their documents on February 15, 2008, so there have been some additions/changes to what was originally put out there.
Here is the link to the Knowledge Base article (the download link for the tool is in the Knowledge Base article):
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 948779

For more information on how to deploy a site as IFD take a look at this document that Microsoft has posted:
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment Scenarios

If you aren't sure what IFD is, or what it does for you or your customers, let me give you my understanding of it as there is minimal documentation on what it is, only documentation on how to set it up. Basically the IFD sets up Forms over Active Directory Authentication to the MSCRM pages externally to your deployment. What does that do for you?
Two things:
1. Users logging in externally will now see a sign in page where they don't have to input their domain, just their username and password. This is different from 3.0 in that MSCRM sites that were accessible over the internet would bring up the windows login prompt, requiring your domain and username.
2. It makes is so that you can use your Outlook client without a VPN. The Outlook client will first attempt to connect to the internal site, if it doesn't find it, it will kick over to the external address provided in the configuration wizard. As it tries to connect it will first try Active Directory Authentication, it will tell you that it fails and will attempt to connect using Forms over Active Directory Authentication.
Good luck out there!
Jan