Add Extranet Account Managers

3. Add Extranet Account Managers

An Extranet Account Manager is a special permission level provided by ExCM. It is intended to be granted to SharePoint Farm Administrators and other "super users" who need to act in an administrative capacity over your entire extranet.

Tip: ExCM also provides for "Site Sponsors" which is a special permission level that is designed to be a way to delegate limited extranet account management capabilities to a business user in a specific extranet site. See this How-To Article for more information about the Site Sponsors feature.

At a minimum, you should add your SharePoint Farm Administrators as Extranet Account Managers using these instructions:

Navigate to General Application Settings > Extranet Collaboration Manager > Account Managers:
Central Administration Extranet Collaboration Manager Account Managers

Central Administration Extranet Collaboration Manager Account Managers

Select your extranet web application from the drop down:
Extranet Account Manager web application selection

Click on Add Account Manager:
Extranet Account Managers permissions

In the Membership Provider drop down, select the name of the your Membership Provider for the web application:

Warning: These instructions assume you have used the Extranet Setup Wizard to configure your web application as shown in the previous two steps of this section. By doing that, you will have a single zone for your extranet web application and all servers (WFEs and CA server) will have matching web.config files that are correctly edited to enable SharePoint forms-based authentication (FBA).

Scenarios where you have manually configured your extranet web application (e.g. multiple zones and/or have manual editing your web.config files), the instructions on this page may or may not work for you and you may need to contact our technical support team for special instructions.

Extranet Account Managers Add Account Manager

Enter the account of the domain user that you want to make an Extranet Account Manager and click Save:

*Note: DomainUsers must be entered using lower case letters ONLY. EXAMPLE: awbikesalan

Note: The example below shows adding an Active Directory user as an Extranet Account Manager. You can also add Forms-based Authentication (FBA) users andor Trusted Identity Provider (TIP) users. The format for an FBA user is MEMBERSHIPPROVIDER:UserName (example: Ext:brenda@awbikes.com). The format for a TIP user is TRUSTEDIDENTITYPROVIDER:UserName (example: ADFS:fred@awbikes.com).

Extranet Add Account Manager User Account settings

You will receive a message that your data was saved. Click Close to close out the dialog:
Extranet Add Account Manager successfully

Now click the Refresh button on the Extranet Account Manager page to verify that the user you entered has been made an Extranet Account Manager:
Extranet Account Managers verify User Name

Extranet Account Managers verify User Name

Add any other users who you wish to have overall administrator capabilities over your extranet web application.

Proceed to the next step: 4. Activate Site Collection Feature.