Using the Add User button on the Users page as described in Adding an Individual User to CentraSite . This procedure enables you to define a single user and associate that user with an account in the external authentication system.

Using the Bulk Load Users from External Source button on the Users page as described in Bulk Loading Users from the External Authentication System. This procedure enables you to load multiple users from the external authentication system into CentraSite in a single step.

Using the Users profile on the Edit Organization page as described in Adding Users from the Organization's Users Tab. This procedure enables you to load one or more users from the external authentication system into CentraSite in a single step.

When you add a user from Active Directory or LDAP, CentraSite automatically populates many of the user's attributes in CentraSite with user information from the external authentication system. The exact set of attributes that CentraSite populates depends on how the user attributes in CentraSite have been mapped to the user properties in the external authentication system. For more information about mapping attributes, see Authentication Topics and LDAP.

A user can belong to only one organization.

Every user that you add to CentraSite automatically becomes a member of the Everyone group. This group represents the set of all users defined on CentraSite, including the guest user.

If the user that you add has an associated user account on the external authentication system, CentraSite also does the following:

It adds the user to the following system-defined groups

It assigns the Asset Consumer and Asset Provider roles to the user. (An administrator can modify these automatic role assignments, so the default role assignments for your organization might be different.)

It activates the user, i.e., it allows the user to log on to CentraSite components such as CentraSite Control, using the user ID and password stored in the external authentication system.