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Adding users from a Windows domain

You can add Microsoft Windows users to the Content Manager. When you add users you can add them to User Groups.

Before you begin

To add or edit users, you must have system administration privileges.

Procedure

  1. Access the Content Manager Explorer Web site.
  2. Select Administration in the navigation pane.
  3. Expand the Access Management > User Management node.
    A list of users appears in the content area
  4. In the Administration Ribbon toolbar tab, select Users > New User.
    The Add New User to SDL Web wizard appears.
  5. In Step 1 of the wizard, select users to add:
    1. Select the value Domain for Directory Type and enter the name of your domain in the Domain field.
    2. Enter a specific user and click Search, or leave the field empty to retrieve all users within the specified domain.
    3. When search has returned results, select users in the Users Found list and click Add to add them Users to add to SDL Web list.
    4. Click Add Users.
    5. Click Next to go to the next step in the wizard, or click Add Users to add the User to the system (without specifying properties or assigning user to Groups and defining membership scope).
  6. In Step 2 of the wizard, specify user properties:
    • System Administrator—system administrators have full access to all Content Manager functionality and Publications. You cannot remove your own system administration privileges, delete your own user, or disable yourself while you are a System Administrator.
    • Enabled—if a user is no longer using the Content Manager, you can disable a user. (If you want to add a user back to the system at a later date, do not delete the user: disable the user account instead.)
    • Click Next to go to the next step in the wizard, or click Add Users to add the User to the system (without assigning user to Groups and defining membership scope).
  7. In Step 3 of the wizard, assign users to Groups and define membership scope:
    1. In the Users to Add to SDL Web list, select a User.
    2. In the Groups for Selected User(s), select check boxes to add the user to these Groups. For information about creating groups, see User Groups.
    3. In the Membership scope for selected group list, select the Publications to which you want to grant these users access.
    4. Click Add Users to add the User to the system.

Results

The Content Manager adds one or more users to the Content Manager with the appropriate group membership, user scope, system administration privileges, and enable/disable settings applied.