Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Configuring a Site

Now that you have created your site, you are ready to configure it for first use. The installation process automatically creates three site groups for your site collection. The groups are as follows:

• Owners: This group is for users who will manage your site collection. They have access to manage permissions, navigation, and site settings.

• Members: The members group is for users who will contribute to your site collection. Because SharePoint has library-, list-, and file-level security, the members will not have access to items from which they have been excluded.

• Visitors: Members of the visitors group have read access to your site collection.

Using these site groups helps to keep SharePoint security management centralized and easy to audit. To assign users to these groups so that they can start working with the portal:

1.	Use a browser to open the home page of your site.
2.	From the top-right corner, click Site Actions and then click Site Settings.
3.	Click People and Groups in the Users and Permissions section.
4.	Select the site group that you want to add users to from the left navigation bar.
5.	Click New on the top navigation bar and click Add users.
6.	Add the users that you want to add to the group in domain\username format and separate them with a semicolon if you are adding multiple users.
7.	Click OK.