How to import users from Active directory in to sharepoint Application

Question

Hi friends,


     Currently i have one site and i am loging in to the site through windows authentication.now i want to import users from active directory.
so that the user name should check in the active directory weather the user exist or not .How can i import the users and what changes i need to do .

Plz help me. Thanks in Advance,

Answer 1

Hi,
first of all, are you using WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007. Secondly if you are using Windows auth then the users has to exist in AD (or on the local server) to be able to authenticate, so there are no need to check if they exist.
/WW

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Answer 2

Hi Wictor,

i am currently using MOSS 2007 and the users exist in Active directory. when ever the user enter(Login) in to the site we need to check in Active directory.for that we need to connect active directory to SSP(Shared service Provider) so i wan tto know how can we connect Active directory to Shared service provider


Active directory---------->SSP--------->Sitecollection(our site)


This is the structure we need to follow to retrive the users from the Active Directory.

Answer 3

Hello,
The AD-SSP connection is managed using the User Profiles and Properties->Import Source of the SSP.
/WW

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Answer 4

Create a feature that searchs through the AD users and create each AD user as a SPUser in sharepoint if not already exists.

Answer 5

If the server in which you install MOSS is in the domain, then you need to do any thing extra configuration steps because SharePoint will automatically detect AD.

You need not to worry about whether the user exists in AD or not, because Windows authentication itself will take care off. Windows authentication will fail if the user does not exist. You are really not required to import user profiles to SharePoint to authenticate. A user profile record will automatically get created in User Profiles database if it does not exist when you add a user to MOSS. More over SharePoint will not do authentication. It relies on windows, ASP.NET and IIS to perform that function.

Answer 6

 
You can also set up SharePoint to use the Active Directory MembershipProvider class, you don't neccessarily need to setup Forms Based Authentication


Another usefull link might be:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998345.aspx

Answer 7

 Reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263503.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/cgideon/archive/2006/05/18/601230.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2008/08/21/3107508.aspx

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