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Protect Applications with the SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint

The SiteMinder Management UI configures SiteMinder protection for most of your SharePoint applications. Some other SharePoint applications, such as the Shared Services Provider (SSP) or My Sites applications, need to be protected separately using different procedures.

Note: If you are protecting applications on a SharePoint farm, perform this procedure on the following systems:

• Your SharePoint Central Administration server (do this server first).
• Each web front-end (WFE) server in your SharePoint 2007 environment (do these servers next, in any order)

Follow these steps:

1. Open the Management UI, and then click the Application Protection tab.

   A list of your SharePoint applications appears. The list contains the following information for each application:

   • The Authentication type by which each application is protected.
   • The description field of the web application (the default is the name and port number of the SharePoint application, but your setting could vary).
   • The zone of the SharePoint application.
   • Which version of the SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint is protecting the SharePoint application.
2. Select the check boxes of the SharePoint applications you want to protect.
3. Click the drop-down list for the application you want to protect, and then select one of the following authentication types:

   Forms (FBA)

   Used to configure SiteMinder protection for users accessing the SharePoint web application/zone. This option can be used with any type of SiteMinder user directory, but it is not used when the user accounts are in Active Directory. The Agent for SharePoint configures the SharePoint web application/zone to use ASP.NET Forms Based authentication. Together, with the SiteMinder Membership and role provider, retrieves the user and group information from the user directory. Many SiteMinder authentication schemes can be used with this option, including Forms and Basic.

   Important! The FBA authentication method that the Agent for SharePoint uses is different from SiteMinder forms-based authentication. SiteMinder forms based authentication uses a forms credential collector (FCC).

   Windows (Impersonation)

   Used to configure SiteMinder protection along with Windows impersonation for users accessing the SharePoint web application/zone. This option is applicable only when user accounts are stored in Active Directory. Many SiteMinder authentication schemes can be used with this option, including Forms, Basic, and the Windows authentication scheme.

   Important! Verify your selections before continuing. Once a web application is protected with the Management UI, it cannot be removed.

4. Click Protect.

   A confirmation message appears at the top of the list. The check boxes of the protected applications are disabled.

5. For SharePoint farms, repeat Steps 1 through 4 for on each WFE server for all the web applications that you want to protect using SiteMinder.

More information:

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

How to Protect My Sites with SiteMinder (all versions)

Gather the Installation Information for your SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint