Quickly and easily create new users in both Active Directory (or NT) and SharePoint from one location saving IT Administrators time and effort.

What Does It Do?

The User Account Setup Web Part allows SharePoint users designated by an IT administrator to add users on their own rather than relying on IT personnel to create the accounts.  You can create an Active Directory user account at the same time that you create the SharePoint user account. You can specify the Active Directory attributes as well as which SharePoint groups and permissions the user may have. The new user accounts are created without compromising the security restriction for domain access or SharePoint user and group security permissions.

How Does It Work?

SharePoint users who have permissions to use the Bamboo User Account Setup Web Part walk through a short four to five step process that allows the user to enter a new account in SharePoint and local user management utility, such as Active Directory Services or NT Directory Services depending on Web Part configuration, all at once. The user first enters the Display Name, First Name, Last Name, Email Address, User Name, Password and confirmation. Next, the user has the option to enter in user properties such as Job Title, Company, Home Phone, Business Phone, etc. (only for users added to ADS since local NT does not collect this information). The third and fourth steps allow the user to select groups and permissions for SharePoint. The user may also have the option of selecting the specific organizational unit or NT security group to add the user to depending on the configuration of the Web Part. When the user clicks Finish, the user is added to Active Directory as well as SharePoint.

Why Did We Build It?

Out-of-the-box SharePoint does not provide IT administrators the ability to create user accounts in their directory services provider and SharePoint simultaneously. Because of this, IT administrators are responsible for managing users for SharePoint customer portals, department sites, hosted applications, and the entire corporation in both Active Directory or NT and SharePoint separately. Offloading some of this work to users that the IT administrator has selected and granted special permissions to, allows the IT administrator to focus on higher priority tasks while not worrying about violating security policies.

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• Read the User Account Setup Web Part Overview.

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