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Kieran
Asked: 2009-06-26 07:33:38 +0800 CST

Adding Windows SharePoint Services users from local users on hyper V

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I am running Windows SharePoint Services on a Hyper V server provided by my ISP. My WSS install is standalone and using SQL Express. When I go to add users to the site collection I see all users on the current Active Directory, including other customers of the ISP - obviously not what I want.

I'd like to be able to add local windows users to the machine and provide those users access to the WSS sites, can I do this?

Cheers

security sharepoint hyper-v user-management

2 Answers

  1. Yes, you can add local users to WSS.

    In addition, I would recomend trying to work with your ISP though to see if your VM can either be disjoined from their domain or have your own domain created and managed for you. Otherwise it may end up being very difficult to manage and could potentially be vulnerable to attacks from other machines/users that are trusted which you have no control over.

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  2. There's a GUI way, but you can basically just type in MachineName\username for a local user, just as you'd type in DomainName\username for a domain user.

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