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Add Roles to your Application

CA SiteMinder applications use roles to define the users or groups or organizations to which you wish to grant access to your SharePoint resources.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Policies, Applications.

   The applications screen appears, showing a list of applications.

2. Locate the application that you created to protect your SharePoint sites, and then click the Edit icon.

   The Modify Application: screen appears.

3. Click the Roles tab.

   The Roles screen appears.

4. Click Create Role.
5. Verify that the Create a new object of type Role option button is selected, and then click OK.

   The Create Role: screen appears.

6. Enter a distinctive name and optional description.
7. Create any of the following roles:
   • Roles that are based on membership in a group (member groups).
   • Roles that are based on membership in an organization (member organizations).
   • Roles that are based on user attributes (Member attributes, such as users who match a particular attribute in your user directory).
8. Click OK.

   The Create Role: screen closes, and the Modify Application: screen appears.

9. Click Submit.

   The Role is created and a confirmation message appears.