Sharepoint Service 3.0: Extract user information from Active Directory

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

Easy. 1 list. Several different views for that list, based on metadata - department, building, whatever. You can show different cols in each view. For instance...for HR, you'd show the salary col as well as the name col. For regular people, another view that does NOT show the salary.

Now we make a few web part pages. On each web part page, put a web part that shows our list. But it only shows one view of that list, with no real way to get to any others.

Now we restrict permissions for each of those web part pages to only the group(s) that you want to see it.

So - web part pages that show different views of the same list, and permission restrictions on those web part pages.