How to add Users from another Domain to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007

When deploying a new SharePoint farm, Admins can often overlook the fact that their users maybe in another domain or forest. To resolve this problem SharePoint 07/1020 must be told where these users are and how to access them.

This can be done using the people picker property. This property must be set using stsadm. You must open Command Prompt (as Administrator) on your SharePoint server.

Then type : cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14(for 2010) and 12 (for 2007)\BIN

You are now ready to execute the command:

stsadm -o -setproperty -url "http" -pn "searchadforests" -pv "example.net",Domain\Username, Password

To get best results ensure that you use the commas. The URL is the URL of your Web App. Example.net shows where your domain name needs to be. You need to also make sure there are no spaces between the Username and password.

The account must be from the Domain you are trying to look up users from. That account should have appropriate permissions in order to find these users.

If you have successfully run the command then you get an "Operation Completed Successfully" message (sometimes this is not true but) you can test this by adding a user from the external domain.

How to Customize SharePoint 2010 Sites using SharePoint Designer 2010

SharePoint 2010 is a powerful tool and now boasts a substantial set of new and attractive features. Analysts such as Gartner have given Share Point 2010 rave reviews, which can be found here.

This means that many more organisations will be looking to implement SharePoint, which then naturally leads to the customisation and branding of such implementations.

I hope to write a series of blogs covering how to customize your SP2010 Site using SP Designer 2010. So here goes…I am going to begin by outlining the basic steps in this post and adding detailed descriptions to future posts.

Step 1: Create the design in Photoshop or any other tool.

Step 2: Convert that design in to HTML/CSS

Step 3: Finally you can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to embed the ASP.net controls (this will deliver the dynamic content, such as menus and the main content) in to the HTML.

SharePoint 2010 Designer provides some very useful tools which enable you to embed ASP controls in to Master Page HTML very easily.

My next post will cover how to embed the ASP controls in to the HTML, since the first two steps are relatively simple.

 
 

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