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IE warning - Microsoft Office Contact Retriever
When I open a SP 2010 page with IE 10 on Windows 8, I get this warning:
Internet Explorer Security
A website wants to open web content using this program on your
computer:
Name: ...
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SharePoint Permissions not working
I am using SharePoint 2010.
When I set permissions (I Only grand myself access) on a document library or folder or document EVERYONE can still see it and download the documents. Why is that? What is ...
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Denying the manage rights permission
I'm trying to fullfill a requirement which forces the use of Active Directory groups. I'm having issues getting to where I want to be.
Upon creation of a new site, I'm going to use AD groups to ...
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Frequently Needed Business Rule About Security that SharePoint Does Not Provide OOTB
Suppose that i have two lists like this
REGION_LIST [ RegionName(text), RegionResponsibles(multi-select peoplepicker) ]
ISSUES_LIST [Some issue related columns, Region(lookup) ]
Main requirement is ...
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Are SharePoint 2007 or 2010 vulnerable to cross-site request forgery out of the box?
An IBM Rational AppScan against a WSS 3.0 installation indicates that it has detected a cross-site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF) vulnerabilities on many pages, for example ...
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Limiting Report Subscription Options
We are using SharePoint Enterprise 2010 to provide reporting functionality for our sales team, using SSRS RDL files. The report's themselves work just fine, but we are going to train our sales team ...
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giving access to an entire web application
Im trying to elevate someones permissions so that they can edit and add users etc across all site collections in our farm. I added the user into the farm admins group but it doesnt look like their ...
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SP2010, are the search index / query component files a risk for highly secure documentation?
Say I have some secure documentation held in SharePoint.
Now say the SQL database/BLOB location is encrypted.
Enterprise Search is used to crawl this content and therefore the content is indexed. Is ...
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Multiple login prompts are driving users nuts
What are the typical causes of multiple login prompts on sharepoint sites?
We have a production site where users who login outside of the domain (from home) are prompted multiple times (3 or so ...
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Is it possible to add a security trim that filters by user groups?
In my left hand side bar I have 3 links to downloads- one for each of three different companies. I need each company to log in and see only the one link to their companies downloads - not all 3 links ...
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Get Access to List View webpart without having access to list
So I'm developing an event management system at the moment where there are two user groups, "editors" and "attendees". By registering for an event, the SPUser is added to a list "attendeeList" which ...
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How can I add “All Authenticated users” (FBA) to a SharePoint Group using Powershell?
I have an FBA site and I need to add "all authenticated users" to a group using PowerShell.
How can I do that?
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Maintaining role groups and users in two farms simultaneously?
We currently have two farms - a SharePoint 2007 one and a SharePoint 2010 one. We have the same groups in both farms and the same userbase.
At the moment when someone joins or leaves the company ...
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How to remove sharepoint security group in the feature?
I want to remove custom security group from sharepoint 2010. I created custom security group as follows:
SPGroup wcmGroup = currentWeb.SiteGroups[permissionName];
SPRoleDefinition ...
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Site collection administrators / owners question
I'm stuggling over a somewhat architectural question which concerns site collection admins and owners. To begin with, I found the thread answerd by Per Jakobsen (here Site collection owners and site ...
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SpSecutityTrimmedControl runs in Pagepreview mode - ?pagepreview=true
I'm branding the sharepoint ribbon and need some changes (css) when the page gets in pagepreview mode.
I've got this code
<SharePoint:SpSecutirtyTrimmedControl runat="server" ...
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tool for script for security auditng
Is there a free tool or script that i can use to return security information across a site collection. Ideally i would like something that shows the user / group name and the url of the site / list ...
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How do you adjust update an obscurity-based solution to SharePoint 2010?
Has anyone played with how to maintain an obscurity-based solution in SharePoint 2010? Or is this simply something that one needs to approach differently?
In SharePoint 2007, you can use a ...
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How to Set Forms Authentication Timeout?
I have a public facing SP2010 site that uses forms authentication (default ASP.NET membership provider).
I noticed that The user stays logged in even after hours of inactivity.
We need the user to be ...
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Programmatically add multiple users to various groups based on information in a list
Due to security restrictions, my organization has a very complex group structure granting fine-grained permissions. We are trying to build a portal that allows for an approval system for group ...
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Site Permissions AD Query
When assigning permissions to a site in Sharepoint 2010, is it possible instead of specifically adding a group or a user, to create an LDAP query or something simular.
For example I have a group ...
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Field-Level Security
Is it possible to set up field-level security on list columns for both visibility and modification out of the box, or leveraging out-of-the-box methods without customized InfoPath forms or ...
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“DWORD (32-bit) Value” or “”Qword (32-bit) Value" - which one should I configure in Windows 64-bit registry?
"DisableLoopbackCheck & SharePoint: What every admin and developer should know" advises to disable ("infamous") "loopback check" completely on dev machine by following
"You receive error 401.1 ...
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“404 FILE NOT FOUND” on my username entries
In Sharepoint 2010 Central Administration --> Security --> Manage the farm admii
nistrator group (Central Administration : Site Settings : People and Groups - Farm Administrators), when I click on my ...
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Right Management Sharepoint
I have a sharepoint list. Users should be able to create new items and change some attributes. I gave full access for the users on the list items. But now I think there is a security gap:
what ...
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Sharepoint 2010 users strangely removed from Sharepoint Group (Expert Advise required)
Since 3 months client portal was working fine suddenly due to some network problem we restarted SharePoint server, after that some Active directory users complained system was inaccessible, where ...
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All users in multi tenant environment
I have a problem with authentication in a multi tenant environment. I have a couple of seperate customers which all have their own SharePoint environment within our hosted environment. In the AD, I ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Item level Permission to a Document Library is Our approach right?
We are planing to apply Item level Permission on document library and want share point experts advise...are we going right way or we will fall in performance issue or others..
What We Have :
1- We ...
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Cannot read site collection details with some accounts
In my SharePoint environment, I have a few seperate web applications with some different admin users. Now a new user I created is added as local admin (needed for Powershell remoting) and farm admin. ...
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Google Analytics for an Intranet Site
I installed the Google Analytics tracking code in an intranet site, it works properly. But my concern is, are there any security risks of using it for an intranet site? simply, is it ok to use Google ...
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EnsureUser throws The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again
I have this code:
The EnsureUser Line is throwing me that exception, any idea?
The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your ...
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Stop inheriting permissions programatically
I want to set read permissions to some sharepoint groups to a list.
For existing sites I did it manually, Stop Inherit permissions. Then on groups I chose the groups and edited their permissions, ...
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List permissions
I want to disallow a specific list only to be only read only for all users in the site.
The only one with permissions would be the site collection administrator of course.
I stoped inheriting ...
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Security Exception - Trying to load MySite Blog
When I try to run this async query it fails:
private void SomeFunction()
{
Thread thread = new Thread(GetBlogInfo);
thread.Start();
}
private void GetBlogInfo()
{
...
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How to give access programatically to a site
In my scenario we want to customize the access request page.
We already know how to create an application page, and with a powershell command, instruct sharepoint to use that page instead.
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How to detect if my code is running inside SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges
Is there a way to detect if my code is running inside SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges?
class Foo
{
public static void Bar()
{
if (CODE_RUNS_ELEVATED)
{
Debug.WriteLine("You ...
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more than one attachment field
We are planning to retire one of our old fashion tools and currently evaluating Sharepoint 2010.
in our current tool, we have 3 different attachment sections two of which are visible to customer, and ...
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Can I use all type of authentications in a sharepoint site external users also
Can I use the same authentications of internal users (available in AD) to external users.?
If no what all authentication method I can use for external users?
Is there any difference in ...
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Column Level Security Products
I am looking for recommendations on products that handle column level security. What is the best product out there? Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Is it possible to limit the visibility of list items to not only just me (the author), but anyone from my company too?
I have a custom list on a SharePoint 2010 extranet site which users from various external companies can add items to. The list's Permission Settings page allows you to make all items visible to all ...
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Security Issue for a user group in SharePoint 2010
For a SharePoint group 'A', I made the security to Read only. Now my requirement is that,
I have created a custom webpart, with one text box and a button, Where the users from 'A' group was supposed ...
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SharePoint 2010 Insights (PerformancePoint): '401 Unauthorized' error on invoking 'Run Dashboard designer'
Environment: SharePoint 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 Standard + SQL Server 2008 R2
I am trying to setup the BI infrastructure Lab as outlined in this article: ...
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Force a Sharepoint Group's landing page
Lets say I have two groups, Group A and Group B.
By default my sites landing page is home .aspx (If I use http://sok1234:456/ It will take me to home.aspx ).
Now my requirement is when a user from B ...
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Security for SharePoint 2010 site pages
I have three pages in a SharePoint site. Lets say
A.aspx
B.aspx
C.aspx
I also have two groups - say ALLACCESS and LESSACCESS
now I want
A.aspx page should access only by ALLACCESS, no ...
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Secure Data from Farm Admins and Database Admins
I am working with a client whose farm admins and database admins may not be approved to view information in one of the site collections due to governmental regulations. Therefore, he would like to ...
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Accounts Needed for Installing SharePoint
I am installing SharePoint on my local machine. What accounts are needed to install SharePoint?
It seems ubiquitous that you need the following accounts.
SP_Admin (Account you install SP with)
...
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Creating a web part to manipulate List Data bypassing List and ListItem security
I have a Tasks List and I need to create a Web Part to display one view of that list (with a functionality similar to a List View Web Part: item viewing, editing, sorting, filtering, etc).
However, ...
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Check object's permission levels
Are there tools that will display all the permissions to an object in SharePoint 2010 Server? For example, we want to see which AD groups, SharePoint groups, and individuals have any level of access ...
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How to set permissions for SP2010 Server
I'm new to SharePoint 2010 and am creating numerous Publishing sites with workflows, each for a different department. Each department needs to have a few people assigned to be able to create pages, ...
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Sharepoint 2010 security validation error
When i try to add a link to the top nav bar, I am doing this from the cms so not from code. I get the security validation invalid error.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5761/errorcs.png
On the ...
