Maintaining a 1500+ user base in TeamSite

Hello all!

Has anyone out there ever encountered (let alone administered) a TeamSite implementation with more than 1500 users? How do you go about making this manageable? Does each user have a separate account, or do you create, for example ~200 generic accounts?

Thanks!

Jonny.

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Adam Stoller

Generic accounts would almost definitely be a violation of the TeamSite licensing contract.
You'd create separate accounts for each - perhaps making use of full LDAP authentication where you could store the user's roles within LDAP...

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Gregg Faus

I hope you get a discount on your cost per user. Yikes.

Go with the Full LDAP implementation as ghoti suggests. It would be a management nightmare to add users and their roles separately.

iwovGraduate

In addition, generic accounts defeats the purpose of using version control, collaboration, locking, etc. (generally speaking.)

ProfessorX

or ADS

Thanks in advance!
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DavidMusser

Also see if you can determine the types of users... i.e. some who just need to review or work through emails... this way you could purchase the lower level users to save a little money.

You should talk to the Sales Rep to see what discounts you can get.

Go with LDAP, cause ADS is microsoft and pure evil... :-) Just kidding...

You will want to plan the rollout as well. In otherwords on day one will you have that many users or can you phase them in over a period of time. Consider your training options as well.

David R Musser
Eye Street Software
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jonwood

Could you clarify what you mean by "add users and their roles separately". We have ~800 users and have the following in place on our solaris TS 552 box.

1) user accounts: created locally on solaris box
2) user passwords: NT passwords verified via PAM module
3) user roles: located in the .uid files... we update this manually

Is this the nightmare you refer to?

Bowker

Don't get too hooked on the use of the roles/*.uid files. Rumor has it they are going away - AND SOON.

Dan Bowker
Northern Trust
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