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SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition
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SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition

by Dux Raymond Sy
January 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
230 pages
5h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Adding Site Members

Before you can add project stakeholders as members of your PMIS, you have to be familiar with how your SharePoint environment is set up. This is a good opportunity to contact your IT/IS department and ask how users are added to SharePoint sites. If you are using a Microsoft environment, users are usually identified in SharePoint by their respective Windows accounts.

SharePoint groups

Figure 4-1. SharePoint groups

Once you know how user accounts are set up in your SharePoint environment, you are ready to add site members to your PMIS. Site members can be added to SharePoint either manually (adding them yourself) or by requesting site access (users request that they be added as site members to the PMIS).

Adding members manually assumes that the site owner has identified the stakeholders who will access the site and already knows their associated SharePoint usernames. If you don’t have this information, ask the IT/IS department to assist you in identifying the usernames.

These are the basic steps for manually adding site members:

  1. Click Site ActionsSite Settings (Figure 4-2).

    Site Settings page

    Figure 4-2. Site Settings page

  2. In the “Users and Permissions” column, click “Site permissions”.

  3. Click the Grant Permissions button on the Permission Tools ribbon (see Figure 4-3).

    Figure 4-3. Grant Permissions

  4. The Grant Permissions ...

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