Configure FrontPage Server Roles

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

The configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS) and the Web sites on the source server might reference user accounts that are stored in the local account database on the source server. These accounts stored locally on the Web server are known as local user accounts. Local user accounts are only valid on the Web server where they exist, not on other Web servers. When you migrate your Web site to another server, these local user accounts must be recreated on the target server. Once the user accounts have been created, the roles that were assigned to the user accounts on the source server must be assigned to the user accounts on the target server.

You can manage roles from the Site Administration page for your Web site. On this page you can view a list of roles, change which rights are included in a role, add a new role, and delete a role.

Procedures

To add a user account and assign FrontPage server roles to it

  1. Open Administrative Tools, and click Microsoft SharePoint Administrator.

  2. On the Server Administration page, click the name of the extended Web site for which you want to assign user roles.

  3. On the Site Administration page for the Web site, click Manage users.

  4. On the Manage Users page, click Add a user.

  5. On the Add a User page, in the User section, click Add user or group name (For example, DOMAIN\name), and enter a user name in the format LocalComputerName\UserAccountName.

  6. In the User Role section, select the check boxes for all roles that apply to this user account, and then click Add User.

To assign FrontPage server roles to an existing user account

  1. Open Administrative Tools, and click Microsoft SharePoint Administrator.

  2. On the Server Administration page, click the name of the extended Web site for which you want to assign user roles.

  3. On the Site Administration page for the Web site, click Manage users.

  4. On the Manage Users page, click the name of the user for which you need to change the roles.

  5. On the Edit User Role Membership page, next to User Role, select the check box for every role that applies to this user, and then click Submit.