Creating accounts & controlling access for outsiders

We are a non-profit organization using Sharepoint in "Domain Account
Mode" and staff has no problem accessing sharepoint sites. We now want
to provide our members (about 150 people who are not set up in our AD)
with access to various Team Sites where they can collaborate on
documents, forums, receive alerts, etc.

I am planning to create AD user accounts for these members and using
their personal email address (yahoo, hotmail, etc) as their
"established" SMTP email address on our exchange server so the alert
functions of sharepoint will work. my questions are;

1. Is this the most efficient way of going about this seeing as I do
not want to have to re-install Sharepoint in Account Creation Mode?

2. What AD rights do I need to apply to the Group containing these
members to ensure they only have access to Sharepoint and not other
resources on our AD network?

3. To login to the sharepoint site they have to enter the username as
domain\username followed by the pwd. How can on set it so only the
username needs to be entered?

4. How do I turn alerts "on" as the default for various webparts
within the sites so the members do not have to (they will not remember
nor follow insturctions)

Thanks in advance for responses or url's to sites with answers.

Engelbert
Thu Jun 08 23:21:20 CDT 2006

Too many questions but another approach is to assign these users to the
server. Then give the users (servername\username) rights to the WSS site(s).

This avoids a need to re-install WSS in Account Creation Mode (1); means you
avoid 2; they only need to specify the username (3) as unless a domain is
specified servername is assumed; you can turn alerts on for other users with
the Jan Tielens free web part listed second here

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/VII%20view%20%20Free%20WSS%20Web%20Parts.aspx

Engelbert


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> We are a non-profit organization using Sharepoint in "Domain Account
> Mode" and staff has no problem accessing sharepoint sites. We now want
> to provide our members (about 150 people who are not set up in our AD)
> with access to various Team Sites where they can collaborate on
> documents, forums, receive alerts, etc.
>
> I am planning to create AD user accounts for these members and using
> their personal email address (yahoo, hotmail, etc) as their
> "established" SMTP email address on our exchange server so the alert
> functions of sharepoint will work. my questions are;
>
> 1. Is this the most efficient way of going about this seeing as I do
> not want to have to re-install Sharepoint in Account Creation Mode?
>
> 2. What AD rights do I need to apply to the Group containing these
> members to ensure they only have access to Sharepoint and not other
> resources on our AD network?
>
> 3. To login to the sharepoint site they have to enter the username as
> domain\username followed by the pwd. How can on set it so only the
> username needs to be entered?
>
> 4. How do I turn alerts "on" as the default for various webparts
> within the sites so the members do not have to (they will not remember
> nor follow insturctions)
>
> Thanks in advance for responses or url's to sites with answers.
>