Add members from Active Directory to the SharePoint Site – WSS 3.0

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I have a running WSS 3.0 site, I want to give some users permissions to participate in this site … but I want to add users from my Active Directory user – user@company.com. When I checked "Authentication Providers" I found only one provider Zone:Default – Membership Provider Name:Windows … I don't know if this can help.

My boss asked my not to add all the people to the SharePopint machine itself in order to make them able to participate … could you help me in this 😀

Best Answer

If you are setup with the Windows authentication method, that hooks up your authentication to the AD domain that your WSS server is in.

Typically you will want to use Integrated/NTLM authentication so that people on computers in your domain will be automatically logged in with their machine credentials. (People not in your domain or not using IE will need to type in their username/password)

Your users should not need any specific privileges on the Sharepoint server - but you may need to add Domain Users (or nt authority\all authenticated users) to the Users group on your SharePoint machine.

Here is Microsoft's planning guide for WSS authentication: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288475.aspx

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