User Profiles in Sharepoint

User profile is one of the most important concepts of Sharepoint. It is nothing but adding users to the Sharepoint site and assigns them different kinds of rights to access the resources.

We can add user to the SharePoint from Active directory, LDAP and also from local system user account. There is different types of default users group as below

1) Approvers :
Members of this group can edit and approve pages, list items, and documents.

2) Designers :
Members of this group can edit lists, document libraries, and pages in the site. Designers can create Master Pages and Page Layouts in the Master Page Gallery and can change the behavior and appearance of each site in the site collection by using master pages and CSS files.

3) Hierarchy Managers :
Members of this group can create sites, lists, list items, and documents.

4) NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users :
Use this group to give people contribute permissions to the SharePoint site:

5) Members :
Use this group to give people full control permissions to the SharePoint site:


6) Owners :
Use this group to give people read permissions to the SharePoint site:


7) Visitors :
Use this group to give people read permissions to the SharePoint site:


8) Quick Deploy Users :
Members of this group can schedule Quick Deploy jobs.

9) Records Center Web Service Submitters for Record :
Members of this group can submit records to this Records Center using Web Services.

10) Restricted Readers :
Members of this group can view pages and documents, but cannot view historical versions or review user rights information.

11) Style Resource Readers :
Members of this group are given read permission to the master page gallery and the Restricted read permission to the Style Library. By default, all authenticated users are a member of this group. To further secure this site, you can remove all authenticated users from this group or add users to this group.


12) Viewers :
Members of this group can view pages, list items, and documents. If the document has a server rendering available, they can only view the document using the server rendering.



Individually adding user Permissions
1) Full Control - Has full control.
2) Design - Can view, add, update, delete, approve, and customize.
3) Manage Hierarchy - Can create sites and edit pages, list items, and documents
4) Approve - Can edit and approve pages, list items, and documents
5) Contribute - Can view, add, update, and delete
6) Read - Can view only
7) Restricted Read - Can view pages and documents, but cannot view historical versions or review user rights information
8) View Only - Members of this group can view pages, list items, and documents. If the document has a server-side file handler available, they can only view the document using the server-side file handler
9) Records Center Submission Completion - This role is required to fill in missing properties on records submitted to the Records Center. It is automatically granted to users for each record submitted that is missing properties.