Selecting Individual Users
Enter the name of one or more users on which you want to perform the action or analysis. Separate each user name with a semicolon (;). You can either:
§enter a full user account name (for example, domain\username or service provider:username), then click the Check Names icon (
OR
§click the Browse icon (
If your environment includes alternate authentication providers (that is, in addition to Active Directory), when you initiate an action or analysis for a single Web application you can validate or browse for individual users managed by any authentication provider supported by that Web application. Similarly, if you use claims-based authentication and want to perform an operation on a claim, you can validate the claim if it is being performed on or within a single Web application. Because of limitations inherent in SharePoint, however, if you have selected the entire farm or multiple Web applications, you can type in alternate authentication-user account names or claims, but you can neither validate nor browse for them.
Depending on the action or analysis you are performing, ControlPoint may or may not allow invalidated users to be included in the operation. For example, you cannot add a user to a site unless the user's existence in the provider database can be validated. However, you can delete or report on an unvalidated user's permissions from a site, because it is reasonable to assume that a user who has been granted permissions to a SharePoint site may no longer exist in the provider database(s), as in the case of a former employee.