We’ve decided to control access to all our Sharepoint sites through Active Directory groups. By default every site will have 3 groups – Owners, Members, Visitors. These correspond roughly to Managers, Editors, Readers in the Domino world. The good news is that this will take the burden of maintaining access off my shoulders and put…

We’ve decided to control access to all our Sharepoint sites through Active Directory groups. By default every site will have 3 groups – Owners, Members, Visitors. These correspond roughly to Managers, Editors, Readers in the Domino world.

The good news is that this will take the burden of maintaining access off my shoulders and put it on the Help Desk. We’ll see how popular this proves to be as we move forward. It will also make changes to access a wee bit slower.

The alternative was to use the sharepoint groups directly for access. The big advantage here is that site owners could add/remove people from the site themselves. The downside is that site owners could add/remove people themselves. I’m sure most site owners would do a great job, but I also know from experience that some people shouldn’t be let within 50 feet of a setting like that.