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How to Protect My Sites with SiteMinder (all versions)

To protect the SharePoint My Sites resources with SiteMinder, use the following process:

1. Protect the SSP sites with SiteMinder.
2. Change the URLs on the My Site Settings page to use fully qualified domain names.
3. Add the SiteMinder ISAPI filter to the IIS web site for your SharePoint My Site.
4. Do one of the following tasks:
   • For r12.0 SP2, use the SiteMinder Administrative UI to create an application to protect the My Site URL.
   • For r6.x SP6, use the Policy Server User Interface to create a Domain, realm, rule, and policy to protect the My Site URL.
5. Add the following items to the web.config file of the My Site:
   • CA Membership Provider
   • CA Role Provider
   • HTTP Session Manager Provider
   • Forms Authentication settings
6. Use the SharePoint Central Administration UI to do the following tasks:
   1. Change the authentication provider of your My Site to Forms.
   2. Add a SiteMinder user to your My Site host permissions.
   3. Add the SiteMinder user from Step 6b as a site collection administrator for My Site.
   4. Grant personalization-services permissions to the group name associated with the authenticated SiteMinder users.
   5. Grant policy for web application permissions to the group name associated with the authenticated SiteMinder users.

More information:

How to Protect the SharePoint SSP with SiteMinder r12.0 SP2 and FBA

Protect Applications with the SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint