Best way to add 50,000 users to SharePoint?

[LukasJHU]

I would like to create 50,000 users for my installation of SharePoint. All of them will be either READERS and/or MEMBERS OF, as far as permissions go. But, do the town residents need an instance in active directory?

I couldn't find a way to add users to SharePoint without them being in our Active Directory.

Thanks!

P.S. After a few days of playing around with SharePoint, I went from hating the program to actually being quite fond of it. It's still overwhelming, though. So, to all those out there still studying it... good luck and keep at it!

 

[globalstrata]

Well, you will find that the add users feature is not user friendly.


Gladys Rodriguez
GlobalStrata Solutions

http://www.globalstrata.com

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

I would recommend that you use Active Directory groups to manage such ammount of users. Then you just give the A.D security group access to sharepoint and put them in the appropriate sharepoint sitegroup. And that is easily done by adding DOMAIN\AD_security_group_name in the add users section. Are you using Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) or SharePoint Portal Server (SPS)

Sharepoint is using NT accounts, and if you have an A.D you should definately use them in sharepoint. Otherwise you would have to create local accounts on the sharepoint server, and just imagine to handle 50K users that way!

On some of our implemetnations I have actually granted all authenticated users read access to a site and then only added specific groups of users access to actually edit information on the site.

If you do not have permissions to actually edit/manage your A.D you might ask your network admins to create a specific OU (Organizationl Unit) in your A.D and delegate rights to you in the specific A.D. This is how I have been doing it here. We are having on A.D with 36 domains, and there is different user-rights in each domain (yes it is quite a mess!), so we just created an OU for our sharepoint and then delegated rights to that one for our Site Administrators (Super users)so that they can more easily manage their users in the A.D instead of sharepoint.

Regards,
Thomas