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Users can browse the entire site but are restricted to editing within their department's folder. By
restricting user's editing privileges to their department's web pages, each group can maintain
control over their web content and can act more independently with the content they make
available to the entire organization. A potential drawback to this arrangement is that users in
different departments cannot collaborate on pages. Each department must work independently.
Contribute and directory services
Using the optional CPS, you can integrate your organization's user directory services (such as
LDAP or Active Directory) with Contribute. This gives you individual control over which user is
granted access to a particular website and the role to which they are assigned.
For this case study, consider a large organization with several decentralized websites. In addition
to a public facing site that provides information about the organization, there are several internal
sites in use by individual departments and workgroups. The organization uses LDAP as both a
directory service that lets users look up other employees as well as an authentication service
through which administrators set permissions limiting users' access to file-sharing servers and
other network resources.
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