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Thomas2000
Technical User
Hello,
An audience is a "group" of people that you use to target content to. For example if you have an IT department you can create an audience, and chose to add users from the IT department in that audience and then target content. It can be for example news, links etc. that has to do with IT that you want to display only for the IT Department people.
uum.. I hope I made some sense there...if not..let me know and I'll try to be more clear
Cheers,
Thomas
An audience is a "group" of people that you use to target content to. For example if you have an IT department you can create an audience, and chose to add users from the IT department in that audience and then target content. It can be for example news, links etc. that has to do with IT that you want to display only for the IT Department people.
uum.. I hope I made some sense there...if not..let me know and I'll try to be more clear
Cheers,
Thomas
Hi, just having a look at audiences as well, what I wanted to do was include people in an audience by the user group I put them into in sharepoint not Active Directory, is this possible as I am struggling to get it working with OU's in AD?
For example in AD I have an OU called BranchStaff, then more OU's inside there with the different branches, inside that is the users who work in the branches. If I do User, Member Of, Domain Name\BranchStaff I get "No account is found from Active Directory based on your input."
For example in AD I have an OU called BranchStaff, then more OU's inside there with the different branches, inside that is the users who work in the branches. If I do User, Member Of, Domain Name\BranchStaff I get "No account is found from Active Directory based on your input."
Thomas2000
Technical User
Hello,
You will have to add a security group (user group) from the Active Directory. An OU is not a real usergroup so that can not be added to SharePoint. You would have to create for example a global group in Active Directory and put the users in there and then add that group to SharePoint.
As far as I know you can not use a SharePoint Usergroup you have created i SharePoint, you will have to use a windows security group or distribution list.
Regards,
Thomas
You will have to add a security group (user group) from the Active Directory. An OU is not a real usergroup so that can not be added to SharePoint. You would have to create for example a global group in Active Directory and put the users in there and then add that group to SharePoint.
As far as I know you can not use a SharePoint Usergroup you have created i SharePoint, you will have to use a windows security group or distribution list.
Regards,
Thomas
Thomas2000
Technical User
Hi,
An audience is not a user-rights group per say in SharePoint. An Audience is only for targeting content to a group of people not giving them access to different things. As I wrote in my first post. If you have for example an IT-department you can setup and Audience that you will target content that relates to IT, for example display news, links etc.
So if you create an Audience called IT-Department you can chose to add a distribution list as a member of that Audience. But if you want to give the users access to IT-department documents, lists etc you will have to put them in a sitegroup that have the rights to access and edit things in the IT-Department area of the portal.
Regards,
Thomas
An audience is not a user-rights group per say in SharePoint. An Audience is only for targeting content to a group of people not giving them access to different things. As I wrote in my first post. If you have for example an IT-department you can setup and Audience that you will target content that relates to IT, for example display news, links etc.
So if you create an Audience called IT-Department you can chose to add a distribution list as a member of that Audience. But if you want to give the users access to IT-department documents, lists etc you will have to put them in a sitegroup that have the rights to access and edit things in the IT-Department area of the portal.
Regards,
Thomas
Thomas2000
Technical User
Yes, as far as I have understood it that is the way audiences work. I have used audiences on some of our environments and it is a nice way of presenting users with information relevant to their department/organization.
So when it comes to security and protecting information, you use sharepoint usergroups (sitegroups) / Windows Security groups.
Regards,
Thomas
So when it comes to security and protecting information, you use sharepoint usergroups (sitegroups) / Windows Security groups.
Regards,
Thomas
Ah, a little purple star for you, you also could of told me just to read the text displayed on the page when creating an audience that says security group or distribution group. However I could of played with it for a few more days before I did actually read it so thanks. What I have done is create security groups specifically for the purpose of sharepoint audiences, eg. IntranetBranchStaff. Works a treat.
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