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Assigning Central Administrator permissions

To complete the installation process, the Winshuttle Central Administrator must be added to the following security groups:

  • Site Owners – To have full access to the site
  • Central License Administrator – To manage licenses
  • Central Reports Viewers – To view reports
  • Central Site Administrator – To administer Central site settings

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Assigning Central administrator permissions for SharePoint 2010

 

  1. On the home page of your target Winshuttle Central Site Collection, click People and Groups. (Alternately, click Site Action, click Site settings and under Users and Permissions click People and Groups)
  2. To complete the installation process, the Winshuttle Central Administrator must be added to the following security groups:
    • Site Owners – To have full access to the site
    • Central License Administrator – To manage licenses
    • Central Reports Viewers – To view reports
    • Central Site Administrator – To administer Central site settings

    Note: Winshuttle Central can recognize a domain group that has been added to a SharePoint group if LDAP settings are configured. Winshuttle Central does not support a domain group within a domain group, or a domain group within a computer management group. (SharePoint also does not allow nested SharePoint Groups.)

  3. Click the Central Administrators group.
  4. Click New, and then click Add Users.
  5. In the Users/Groups box, type a domain name or user name; alternately, click Address Book  to locate a name. Click Check Names  to verify, and then click OK.

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  6. Repeat this procedure for each of the groups listed in step 2.

Assigning Central Administrator permissions (SharePoint 2013)

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  1. On the home page of your target Winshuttle Central Site Collection, click People and Groups.

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  2. Add the Winshuttle Central Administrator to the following security groups:
    • Site Owners – To have full access to the site
    • Central License Administrator – To manage licenses
    • Central Reports Viewers – To view reports
    • Central Site Administrator – To administer Central site settings

    Note: Winshuttle Central can recognize a domain group that has been added to a SharePoint group if LDAP settings are configured. Winshuttle Central does not support a domain group within a domain group or a domain group within a computer management group. SharePoint also does not allow for nested SharePoint Groups.

  3. Click the Central Administrators group.
  4. Click New, and then click Add Users.
  5. In the Add people field, type the user names or email addresses of the users you are adding.
  6. Repeat this procedure for each of the groups that are indicated in step 2.

Enabling LDAP settings (optional)

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  1. On the home page of your target Winshuttle Central Site Collection, click WINSHUTTLE Central Administration.
  2. Under Site, click Manage LDAP Connection.
  3. Enter the following LDAP configuration Settings
    • LDAP Server Name: Enter the friendly name of the Domain Controller server.
    • User Name: Enter a service account logon information to an account that has read access
    • Password: Enter the User Name’s password
    • Domain Name: Enter the domain name where the server is located. For example, "Winshuttle" represents winshuttle.contoso.com
    • Target OU: Enter the LDAP Connection String for the target domain.For example, "dc=contoso,dc=com"
  4. Click Test Connection.
  5. Click Save. (Note that you cannot add the connection if the connection test failed).
  6. At the top of the page, click Enable domain groups to enable the LDAP connection.