I am setting up a business partner portal in our Sharepoint server. There will be an AD group with permissions limited to viewing and possibly contributing to the specific business partner site and employees of our business partners will have accounts created for them as needed.
Now we would like to let our business development group(BDG) have control over the partner accounts. Ideally they should be able to add and delete accounts and change permissions on them. The BDG are not domain admins so we don't want to give them access to the domain controller. We want to create an Infopath form that will allow them to do all this.
Is it possible to create and manage AD accounts from within an Infopath form on the sharepoint server?
I searched this site and MSDN and can not find anything specifically related to my question.
Best Answer
I know that this is very late, but I accomplish similar functionality for clients without Infopath, but with System Center instead.
System Center Service Manager has a Self-Service Portal where IT staff can list services that they offer (create accounts, provision VMs, raise mail quotas, etc). System Center Orchestrator can capture the data input by the users into the portal and take custom actions, such as creating user accounts. All of this is capable of being integrated into SharePoint.