Adding Site Content

There are three main ways you can add content to your WSS sites:
Allow users to add content.
Use web designers to create content.
Migrate content from another site.
There are some things to consider when choosing what option you will use for adding site content:
Will the public see this content?
Is the site for a large organization?
Are you redesigning or reorganizing another site?
Will the site be a collaboration site, which might include wikis, blogs, or other user- created content?
Here are two of the more popular choices for adding content to a WSS site:
User-added content You can immediately allow users and site owners to add content to
the WSS sites by following the steps in the section “nabling Access For End Usersin this chapter.
The benefit of allowing user-added content is it involves users immediately, and they tend to want to add and update the content on a regular basis.
Migrate content You have a couple of options to migrate content from a different site.
One option is to use the Export and Import operations of the Stsadm tool. The other option is to use the Central Administration page to perform a migration.

Read more about the Stsadm tool and the Central Administration options for migrating content by visiting the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Techni-

cal Library at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288664.aspx.

Configuring Authentication for WSS

Authentication is the process of validating a userverifying the level of access they should have. WSS uses IIS to manage user authentication. After IIS has determined that the user is authentic, WSS will perform the authorization. WSS will then allow the user to access the resources on the WSS site to which they have been given access.

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WSS has provided support for federated authorization, also known as Web Single Sign On (Web SSO). This means that the authentication system is not local to the computer that hosts Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
WSS provides for several other authentication scenarios:
Standard Windows authentication.
Simple database containing usernames and passwords.
Integrating directly into your company
Using several systems together. This would allow for a company identity system to
authenticate partner employees but another system to authenticate internal employees. Table 7.1 shows the supported authentication methods.

TABLE 7.1 Supported Authentication Methods
Authentication Methods Description Examples
Windows
These are standard IIS windows
authentication methods. Basic
Anonymous
Digest
Certificates
Kerberos (Integrated
Windows)
NTLM (Integrated
Windows)

ASP.NET formsWSS 3.0 adds support for identity management systems

by adding ASP.NET-based forms authentication.

Web Single Sign-On (SSO)Enables SSO in environments that are on disparate platforms.

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

SQL Database or other databases

Other ASP.NET-based forms

ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) Additional identity man- agement systems

The following sections will cover a couple of the con Digest authentication
Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

MCTS Windows 7 Configuration Authentication for WSS