In my previous post ‘Adding Active Directory Accounts to SharePoint‘ I outlined how you can first create AD accounts then add them to SharePoint 2007. Since the AD portion still stays the same this will outline how to add users to your SharePoint instance.
Log onto your server with appropriate administrator right to add SharePoint accounts and click: Site Actions>Site Settings>Users and Permissions>People and groups. You will land in the ‘Visitors’ group page. Continue reading
Just a short quick note that seems to be missing from the Internet. To add a new Alternative UPN suffix to your domain controller, you will need to do the following:
1. Goto Administrative Tools -> Active Directory Domains and Trusts.
2. Right-click on Active Directory Domains and Trusts from the top of the MMC tree.
3. Add the domain name you want to use for your new Alternative UPN suffix.
This Article will explain how to set up Forms Based Authentication using an Active Directory backend.
Your default site is required to be a Windows Authentication provider. This is due to the fact that you the search and backup process will break if the default is anything other than a standard Windows provider. This will require you to extend the existing site. Here is an example.
portal.domain.com —> extended to —> fba.domain.com
Windows login: portal.domain.com
FBA login: fba.domain.com
In our example we will be using the following typical variables which you will have to change to suit your particular needs in the appropriate web.config files.
Membership Provider name=”ENIGMA”
Role manager name=”ENIGMAROLE”
server=”domain.com”
userContainer=”DC=Domain,DC=com”