5.3. Configuring Users and Groups in SharePoint
At this point, you won't be able to move forward in your work with SharePoint users and groups without actually being able to work with users and groups. You have yet to add any users to SharePoint, but you are about to get that opportunity. In the following sections of the chapter, you'll learn how to add a user to a group, how to create a new SharePoint group, how to edit the permissions of a group, and how to do related tasks.
NOTE
Remember that any user you want to add to SharePoint must either be a domain user in Active Directory or, in a SharePoint stand-alone server installation, must be an authenticated user on the server.
5.3.1. Creating Users and Groups
Exercise 5.1 will get you started ...