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People Picker and claims provider planning (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

 

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

People Picker is a Web control used to find and select users, groups, and claims to grant permission to items such as lists, libraries, or sites in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. When a Web application uses claims authentication mode, the People Picker control uses a claims provider to list, resolve, search, and determine the "friendly" display of users, groups, and claims. A claims provider in SharePoint Foundation 2010 issues claims, which SharePoint Foundation 2010 then packages into security tokens for users. Although People Picker is used by site, list, and library owners to assign permissions to sites and content in SharePoint Foundation 2010, its behavior is heavily dependent on how authentication has been configured for the whole Web application. It is important to plan for People Picker and claims providers when you plan authentication methods for your SharePoint Foundation 2010 solution.

The articles in this section are designed to help you understand and plan for using People Picker and custom claims providers in SharePoint Foundation 2010:

See Also

Concepts

Plan authentication (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
Configure People Picker (SharePoint Foundation 2010)