Sharepoint BUZZ would like to salute Ton Stegeman for his effort and sharing with the Sharepoint community his series on Sharepoint Sitegroups. We’d like to see more blogging posts like this.

This is the second article in a series (of 3) about SharePoint sitegroups. In part 1, Ton Stegeman discussed how you can manage these site groups by using the MOSS interface. I also introduced the scenario that we will build on in this item. After creating a special teamsite for each of our customers, we configured the site groups for this customer site. This was quite a few mouse clicks. Takes a lot of time to configure this manually. Also we want to standardize the naming of these groups across all sites that have the same site definition. That is hard to do manually. And we prefer to give our account managers a self-service system to create and maintain their customer sites. Explaining them how to configure sitegroups and permission levels is not going to work.

We created a workflow that does all this work for us. This workflow is triggered by editing or creating an item in a list with customer data. This workflow is part of what we call our “SiteBuilder”. In this post I will show how you can create the same sitegroups and configure the QuickLaunch in the site to show them.

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