While explaining certain SharePoint concepts to clients there are few as perplexing to a client as the SharePoint security model.

client, customer or company you support could be held financially responsible if your SharePoint farm is compromised

I have a browser-enabled infopath form that needs to allow anonymous submission. Permissions for form libraries do not allow anonymous add only view rights.

Dux Raymond Sy, author of SharePoint for Project Management, is giving a free webcast next week on “Best Practices in SharePoint User Management“.

Our first EUSP Live Online Workshop of the week , Manage SharePoint 2007 Site Permissions, starts Monday at 1:00pm EST. Sharon Richardson, former technical lead for Microsoft in the UK and Europe, will be running a live, hands-on session for beginning and intermediate SharePoint site managers who need a deep dive on configuring security settings [...]

Sharon and I have been talking about working together for a while now, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get started. EndUserSharePoint.com will sponsor a free, half hour live online talk, as Sharon walks through her slidedeck on SharePoint permissions, taking Q&A in the process.

With the exception of the forms based authentication module and a handful of InfoPath forms, this project is using nearly all out of the box SharePoint functionality. Before I wrap up this min-case study, I want to point out something very important – no on involved with this project (aside from my company of course) has any idea that a thing called “SharePoint” is playing such a fundamental technical role. Nearly all of my end users view this as “the web site.” Our client values us because we’re solving their business problem. SharePoint is a great technical blob of goodness, but done right, that’s irrelevant to end users. They need a problem solved, not a wonderful blob of technology.

Applications, computers, file shares all utilize AD for permissions for starters. AD when it comes to SharePoint it can be looked at in two parts. The user and the security group.

Laura Rogers is putting the finishing touches on her “SharePoint Site Permissions Dashboard” solution. In this screencast, she shows how you can setup the dashboard to show permissions levels on multiple sites, access the permissions management screen, and have direct access to each group or person to manage their settings.

Out of all the things I’ve done in the Data View Web Part, this is the one that that is most useful to me. And best yet there is no code required!