Enabling Access For End Users
Now that the WSS site is created, you can give access to your users. This section will help you understand how to give access to site administrators, collection administrators, site owners, and, most important, end users. Without proper access planning, you can yourself taking away or add access needlessly.

For more information on planning site security, visit http://technet
.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288189.aspx .

Configuring Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Sites

Within a site collection, you can conand items. Most of the connot from the Central Administration page.
First add site collection administrators to your site. This portion is done from the Central
Administration site by choosing Start All Programs Administrative Tools and clicking
SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. Then, just follow these steps:
1. Choose Application Management from the navigation bar.
2. In the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site Collection Administrators. Figure 7.10 shows the Site Collection Administrators page.

FIGURE 7.10 The Site Collection Administrators page

3. Select a site collection from the drop-down menu.
4. In the following two boxes, add primary and secondary site collection administrators.
5. Click OK.
You are now ready to give site owners, visitors, and other groups access to your site.

When assigning access, it is a good practice to add groups for access
instead of individual users. This makes administration of security easier to manage.

First weNavigate to your site, and on the home page, select Site Settings from the Site Action menu. Then follow these steps:
1. Click People and Groups. Figure 7.11 shows the resulting page.

FIGURE 7.11 Adding users and groups

2. From this page, choose Groups from the Settings menu.
3. From the Settings menu drop down, click Set Up Groups.
4. From this page, you can set up or change users and groups. You can also create a new group.
Now that you have your groups set up, you can add users groups and give them proper permissions:
1. On the People and Groups page, click on the new group that was created.
2. Choose New on the navigation bar and select Add Users.
3. On the Add Users page, type the name of the accounts to add. You can browse for users in Active Directory.
4. In the Give Permissions section, add the level of permissions you want the users to have. Make sure you have selected Add Users to a SharePoint Group and that you select the correct group.
5. Finally, choose whether you want to have a welcome email sent to the new user and any personal message. MCITP Certification

6. Click OK.

Configuring Policy Template

To confi gure a Policy Template, do the following:

1. Expand the local server.
2. Click on Rights Policy Templates.
3. In the Actions pane, click Create Distributed Right Policy Template.

4. In the Template Identifi cation page, click Add.
5. In the Name box, enter the name for this policy.
6. In the Description box, enter a description for this policy.
7. Click Add.
8. Back at the Template Identifi cation page, click Next.
9. On the Add User Rights page, add the users and permissions required.

Configuring Digital Rights Management (DRM)

10. When fi nished, click Next.
11. Next, you are able to specify an expiration policy. Enter the dates, if any, on which you want the content being protected by this policy to expire.
12. Click Next.
13 On the Specify Extended Policy page, choose any additional conditions that you
require for this template.
14. Click Next.
15. In the Specify Revocation Policy page, check the box next to Require Revocation if you need to deny permission based on other factors. Those factors can include users, application, content ID, or operating systems. MCITP Certification

16. Click Finish to create the template.