What's the easiest way to grant access to all the employees of our company to sharepoint portal. There are some general sites which all employees have read access. So Do I have to create an AD group for all employees and add to the site or is there some better way to manage this?
Security – Grant Sharepoint Access to all employees
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Best Answer
Permissions are set on the site level, so I don't think there is a good way to do this. However, by default new sites created with unique permissions will use the " Visitors" group as the default read-only group on on the new site.
Assuming that the Vistors group does have read-only permissions on each site, then you can edit that group from the root portal site (Site Actions > Site Settings > People and Groups) and add "Domain Users" do the " Visitors" group.
If, for some reason, all domain members are not part of the "Domain Users" group, then you can add "authenticated users" instead. I don't like using "authenticated users" because they could be authenticated to any trusted domain or a local authority.