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Purpose and Audience

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

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

• SharePoint Administrators
• CA 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 CA SiteMinder® administrators can perform the following tasks:

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