SharePoint Active Directory User Creation Mode

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SharePoint Active Directory User Creation Mode

February 20th, 2006 // 5:39 pm @

Been playing around with SPS AD Creation Mode and was disappointed to find that it has a lot of limitations. Not sure if I am completely right on this. Might be something that I missed. Just spent a few hours on it. Correct me if I am wrong.



  1. Could not see any sign of AD Creation Mode on SPS. Seems like it is a WSS only feature.

  2. Once I installed WSS using AD Creation Mode, I was unable to create top level sites, or new users from the GUI or Central Admin. Have to use STSADM for creating them using command line.

Was very excited to see if I can use AD Creation Mode to give access to the SPS Portal for internet users to register and create their own accounts. But I guess it is not possible. Have to implement this using custom code using the DirectoryServices classes of .NET.


Correct me if I am wrong on this, and if it is possible to use AD Creation Mode with SPS and let authorised users create user accounts in the ADS using the Central Admin GUI.


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