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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.