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Home > Products > USPM v2007 > Features > Clone User Site Security
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Works with: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and
Office SharePoint Server 2007 |
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The SharePoint Clone Account Site Security feature of USPM is a simple and
easy to use wizard that enables SharePoint Admins or other
delegated users to clone site security from one user/group to another. With multiple configuration
settings that enable you to target exactly what sites and permissions you want cloned between the selected users.
Now cloning a users site security will be able to be done in a quick and easy process.
Current SharePoint Challenge(s):
SharePoint 2007 security architecture has become more standardized and
provides more consistent capabilities across the platform, however along
with this new architecture and security features comes more complex
management and reporting tasks. Some of the current challenges around cloning user
site security are:
- No cloning capability.
SharePoint does not provide a way to clone user site security settings.
- No holistic user site security view.
SharePoint does not provide a holistic view of where a user or group
DOES have access across the environment and therefore can be cloned. SharePoint's out of
the box view is limited to single site collections and does not display
entire site hierarchies.
- Multiple ways a user can have access.
There are a multitude of ways a user can be given access within SharePoint and no complete clone
tool to ensure proper cloning of all the methods that provided access to a site.
- Sites Security Interface.
Site Security in SharePoint is managed directly from a individual sites interfaces. When cloning a user across
multiple sites SharePoint administrators have to navigate to each sites interface to make changes and this
proves to be very time consuming.
- Web Application Policies override
security. Policies applied to the web application can now
override or alter the entire security for a user or group. These policies provide a user access and therefore need to be considered from a proper cloning.
SharePoint Clone Account Site Security : Business Value
The SharePoint Clone Account Site Security Wizard provides a single process that enables SharePoint Administrators and designated users to clone a users site security from
one user/group to another with a whole host of configuration capabilities. This wizard will enable the process of cloning user site security across the environment to be completed in
a matter of seconds.
Key
Benefits/Capabilities:
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Provides a simple process interface for cloning users/groups.. Easy to use wizard interface that walks the user through cloning
a user or group site security to another user/group. |
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Visual
Hierarchical Site Security View. View all the sites in in a
hierarchical format where a source user has access. Cloning view shows only sites where a user has some type of access and allows selection based on security
inheritance.
Visually see where you can clone the user/group. |
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Clone Security Permissions (both SharePoint Groups and/or Direct Permissions). Wizard settings allow a user to determine if they want to add
the cloning process to target permissions such as SharePoint Groups and/or Direct permissions on the selected sites. |
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Active Directory Group Reports.
USPM will provide a Active Directory
Groups report that will display any Active Directory groups that provided access to any of the sites selected for cloning.
USPM does not directly modify Active Directory but this report will allow users to easily send the information to
their internal support team who is responsible for
Active Directory group memberships. |
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Web Application Policy Reports.
USPM will provide a Web Application Policy report that will display any Web Application Policies that provided access to any of the sites selected for cloning.
USPM does not directly modify Web Application Policies but this report will allow users to easily send the information to
their SharePoint Farm administration team who is responsible for
Web Application Policies. |
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Feature Delegation. The USPM framework allows individual features to be delegated out to
specific users. This capability will enable SharePoint Administration teams to determine who is allowed to execute and leverage the power of USPM. |
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Auditing
Capabilities. Each USPM feature that makes changes to SharePoint's settings, using the SharePoint API, creates an audit trail allowing the
determination of who executed the USPM feature and what changes were made. |
...and much much more! These are just
some of the overall key benefits of the SharePoint Clone Account Site Security.
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