What's the easiest way to grant access to all the employees of our company to sharepoint portal. There are some general sites which all employees have read access. So Do I have to create an AD group for all employees and add to the site or is there some better way to manage this?
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as an update, you can now share with "Everyone except external users" – Jon B Dec 02 '15 at 22:35
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Permissions are set on the site level, so I don't think there is a good way to do this. However, by default new sites created with unique permissions will use the " Visitors" group as the default read-only group on on the new site.
Assuming that the Vistors group does have read-only permissions on each site, then you can edit that group from the root portal site (Site Actions > Site Settings > People and Groups) and add "Domain Users" do the " Visitors" group.
If, for some reason, all domain members are not part of the "Domain Users" group, then you can add "authenticated users" instead. I don't like using "authenticated users" because they could be authenticated to any trusted domain or a local authority.
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I don't like using "Domain Users" because there are some Domain Users who shouldn't get access to the Sharepoint site. – David Mackintosh Mar 25 '10 at 16:16
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I agree with that too, but if your requirement is "all employees" and only employees have domain accounts. I guess in an ideal world, you would create a new group in AD called "SharePoint Users". :) – Doug Luxem Mar 25 '10 at 16:30