Creating users

I would like to create some new SharePoint users. My sys admin told me that
he cannot create them in the AD.

The goal is to test the audience with some fake users and to give a demo to
someone logging in from a VPN.

Optimally, our client will will log in as himself (SP Site Collection admin)
through a VPN and connect to SharePoin to see some functionality (always as
himself), and then log in as different users (IndiaUser, MexicoUser) throught
the menu option "Sign me in as a differnt user" to view the audience
functionality.

How can I arrange this from SharePoint? It seems it will only accept domain
users.

I'm relatively new to SharePoint and cannot find info on this topic anywhere.

onewahid
Fri May 02 13:12:07 CDT 2008

New users (and groups) really should be created in AD, its much easier
to manage. I suppose alternately you could create users in SQL and
have SharePoint use that. Which version of SharePoint are you running
and which version of SQL?


On May 1, 11:09 am, Marie-Pier <MarieP...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I would like to create some new SharePoint users. My sys admin told me that
> he cannot create them in the AD.
>
> The goal is to test the audience with some fake users and to give a demo to
> someone logging in from a VPN.
>
> Optimally, our client will will log in as himself (SP Site Collection admin)
> through a VPN and connect to SharePoin to see some functionality (always as
> himself), and then log in as different users (IndiaUser, MexicoUser) throught
> the menu option "Sign me in as a differnt user" to view the audience
> functionality.
>
> How can I arrange this from SharePoint? It seems it will only accept domain
> users.
>
> I'm relatively new to SharePoint and cannot find info on this topic anywhere.

Daniel
Sun May 04 15:08:40 CDT 2008

You think you should put external users in SQL Server or something other
than AD.

Use From-Based Authentication.

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 1):
Introduction
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 2):
Membership and Role Provider Samples
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975135.aspx

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 3): Forms
Authentication vs. Windows Authentication
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx

Hope this helps you!

/Daniel Bugday
http://www.sharepointforum.com/
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/default.aspx

"Marie-Pier" <MariePier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4620AE52-9B23-44E6-9B56-C00C28611F84@microsoft.com...
>I would like to create some new SharePoint users. My sys admin told me
>that
> he cannot create them in the AD.
>
> The goal is to test the audience with some fake users and to give a demo
> to
> someone logging in from a VPN.
>
> Optimally, our client will will log in as himself (SP Site Collection
> admin)
> through a VPN and connect to SharePoin to see some functionality (always
> as
> himself), and then log in as different users (IndiaUser, MexicoUser)
> throught
> the menu option "Sign me in as a differnt user" to view the audience
> functionality.
>
> How can I arrange this from SharePoint? It seems it will only accept
> domain
> users.
>
> I'm relatively new to SharePoint and cannot find info on this topic
> anywhere.