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Purpose and Audience

The SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint is a gateway or a proxy server-based solution that lets you protect resources in your Microsoft SharePoint environment with SiteMinder.

This guide describes how to install and configure the SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint so you can protect resources stored on SharePoint. This guide is intended for the following SiteMinder and SharePoint personnel:

• SharePoint Administrators
• SiteMinder Administrators

This guide assumes that SharePoint administrators can perform the following tasks:

• Create a SharePoint web application
• Add SharePoint web applications to site collections
• Manage SharePoint site collection administrators
• Work with web application access policies in SharePoint
• Add, modify, or remove files or other content to a SharePoint web application
• Manage SharePoint users and user profiles

This guide assumes that SiteMinder administrators can perform the following tasks:

• Install and configure SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint and Policy Servers
• Create SiteMinder policies, realms, rules, and responses to protect resources
• Manage SiteMinder user directories