Adventures with Sharepoint – Domain user access

Out of the box SP needs users to be authorised – but what if you just want all of your domain users to be able to access the system without password entry?

For all my testing I have a domain user account that shares the same restrictions/properties as the rest of the users, RDP into a different PC logged on as him and test…

So, to grant all domain users read access try the following;

• From your sites homepage click Site Actions, Site Settings
• Under the Users and Permissions heading click Site Permissions
• In our setup I’ve used Home Visitors as the default group,
• Click New, Add Users, Type in “Authenticated Users; domain users” and click the Check Name button, the display should change to show NT_AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users; YOURDOMAIN\domain users, click Ok
• Go back to your test users desktop and try browsing the SP site again, you should now have read access for that account and all domain users.

03/05/11

Came back in to the office today and found my domain user test account unable to access, edited the above to add in domain users also, seems to work now.