Active Directory is a Microsoft technology primarily for managing multiple Windows servers and workstations in a single environment. It was first released in 2000.
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Can I synchronize only users that are members of a certain AD group?
I have a user profile service application set up, and now I want to import profiles from an AD, but I don't want all users, only those that are members of a given AD group. How do I do that?
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SharePoint Group Users AD Group
I am having a SharePoint group SPGroup which is having users from an AD group ADGroup. Now if a user who is not part of ADGroup wants to join in SPGroup, Group Owner or Administrator should not be ...
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Authorization Fails When Using Active Directory Group Membership
I have a test user who is a member of an Active Directory Security Group. I've added that Active Directory group to the a SharePoint Group "[SiteName] Users".
In this scenario, when I attempt to ...
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E-Mail appearing in 'My Settings' but not in user profile?
As title suggests, there's a user who has confirmed he has his e-mail populated based on what they see in 'My Settings'. However, when I'm trying to do something in code with their e-mail I can't ...
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What populates the People Picker / Address Book
I'm sure I already know this... that or it is really simple but what setting, connection or page decides who is shown in the People Picker / Address Book?
Is it simply who is in your AD, determined ...
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pickerentity.key with Claims
In a Sharepoint 2010 page, I am using a people picker to pick users or groups, SPgroups as well as Active directory groups. I am then retrieving every item that was picked as a PickerEntity.Key which ...
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SharePoint 2010 Development: PrincipalContext Could not be Found
I am using Visual Studio 2010. When I want to use PrincipalContext Class, the Visual Studio couldn't find the Reference:
I have opened the project with .NET Framework 4 selected and my project was ...
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How to access AD users in SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solution?
I am running with an issue to accessing AD users in Sandbox solution. Can anyone has idea how to do that.
I know how to do in normal SharePoint 2010 solution. But I am not able to do in the same ...
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How to configure AD to enable SharePoint users to authenticate with username@custom.com rather than domain\username?
How can I configure Active Directory to enable SharePoint users to authenticate with username@custom.com rather than domain\username?
I have done this before and by adding an item to the select box ...
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BDC Model for ActiveDirectory
I am trying to build a BDC Model and a custom .net connector for ActiveDirectory so that users can search for data in AD from Sharepoint as well as create lists (ie: Users list that will show users ...
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SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup not working with every AD Group
I'm currently having an issue with SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup, I've search here and on Google but I haven't found any explication for this behavior. I use the method to list Users that are part or ...
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SharePoint Login Issue after Adding AD user to the site
When I add a new AD user or modify permission level in my SharePoint 2010 site then only local administrators can login to the site. It is show the authentication box again and again even we are ...
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The old name of domain group shows up always
We granted permissions to group1 on a site collection. After a while we created a new OU on AD and moved group1 to this OU and renamed the group to group1New. However we still get the old name of the ...
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SPS2010 - AD account password changing, for non-domain computers
I have Sharepoint 2010 farm - application server(Sharepoint), database server(MS SQL 2008 R2), and domain controller. 3 servers total.
All of these 3 servers are included to domain(domain set up on ...
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Connect to AD with Sharepoint?
Does Sharepoint have the possibility to display right information in the Sharepoint's website to the user from Active Directory by using Sharepoint as a middleman?
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Intermittant Issue with AD Group look-up in One-way trust configuration
We are seeing some odd behavior with some accounts in a SharePoint 2010 Farm that is installed in an Active Directory Domain with a 1-way trust established to another AD domain.
Here is the ...
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Group permission inheritance, with 1:1 to Active Directory?
I am looking to add some groups to a subsite and wonder how the SharePoint permissions are cascaded for nested groups?
e.g. Is it least priveledge?
All_Users
|__Managers
|__Request_Managers
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Sync AD Groups to Sharepoint Groups?
Is it possible or not sync AD Groups to SharePoint Groups means System Administrator created one new Group in AD then it is possible sync AD new group to SharePoint New Group.
next if it sync which ...
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AD Role provider for SharePoint 2010
I'm trying to set up a Sharepoint 2010 solution with form based authenication (claims). ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider workes find as memebership provider, we need the be able to add ad groups ...
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Searching user in directory services in very slow
When adding a user to a SharePoint site, searching that user in directory services is taking more time than usual, in some cases more than a minute.
Is there any specific reason for this? Can the ...
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AD Managed Service Account as SharePoint Managed Account
I'm slightly confused with regards to managed service accounts in Active Directory & SharePoint.
Here's what I'm doing:
Create a managed service account in AD with "New-ADServiceAccount" & ...
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Forgot password in sharepoint with activedirectory membership?
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Hi
I’m working with forgot password link on custom login page having active directory membership(LDAP)
For which I need to set web.config of webapplication in sharepoint
For example
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Getting user's AD groups as lookup
I'm trying to make a simple reservation site, containing two lists: resources and reservations. Users are making reservations by creating a new item on Reservations list, specifying which resource ...
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Is it okay to use a domain account for a SP dev box?
Salvete! I have installed Windows7 64bit on an Oracle VirtualBox VM. I am preparing to install Sharepoint (Enterprise 2010), but I've a question about how this will work with my network's Active ...
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Find SPUser Preferred Name from UserPrincipal
I am looping through a group of UserPrincipal that was retrieved from Active Directory. I need to get find a SPUser using the properties of the UserPrincipal. Once the SPUser is found I will get its ...
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Show Distribution Lists as options in the People Picker
I have a People Picker column in one of my lists and it can pull users and security groups but not Distribution Lists. Is there any way to make it pull from Distribution Lists or do you know of any ...
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Trying to deploy SharePoint 2010 Application Page with calls into Active Directory - Deploying to Farm
I have developed a SharePoint 2010 Application Page app (basically it's an ASP.Net app that runs in SP 2010.) It contains calls into Active Directory to test if the user of the app is in certain ...
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Grant access to Sharepoint site for a non-domain user
We have two ActiveDirectory separate forests (no trust is established between them). And user from another forest/domain wants to use Sharepoint site (resides on our forest) like we do.
I read the ...
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Pre load names from active Directory
I would have a list that i am working on and my goal is to load the users name to a text box from active directory when the user click on add new item... Can anyone help me with that?
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Filter Library with parameter
I am an intern at a company, so I am not completely sure about the structure of the servers etc. However, I have a library that I want to filter by the department that the currently logged on user is ...
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Getting SharePoint working with multiple Domains
Lets say I have Domain A which currently is set up with my SharePoint environment. We have merged with Company B. We want Domain B to work with our SharePoint environment. So they can log on an ...
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Permissions(user has not created list item but should only be able to edit their own)
Hope you can help.
Ok so I have a list with a field called Owner which is derived from the active directory, this is the person who should be able to edit the list item in which they are assigned to. ...
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Deleted users and metadata
If I delete users from SP (AD), how will that affect metadata (e.g. created/modified by in file metadata, or person lookup fields). Will I end up with anonymous ugly SIDs?
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How do I import active directory photos and sync them with my site collections?
I have employee photos that are already loaded into active directory. I would like to have them pushed into SharePoint so that they are visible on the MySite pages and on all site collections.
How ...
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PeoplePicker not find users in FBA using multiple domains
I'm facing a problem with my forms authentication that has consumed me some good hours.
My forms authentication points to 2 providers. Both are AD using a ldap connection to diferent domains.
I have ...
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Site Collections <target user> is a member of
There is already a webpart for this but it shows subsites etc, which is not the requirement.
What I need is a webpart that will list the Site collections a target user is a member of, and it must be ...
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How to transfer ownership using powershell
We are currently running SP2010 within a development environment in a different domain. What I have been able to accomplish now is to create a cross forest trust so that users within the live domain ...
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Check if user, of an ADGroup, belongs to specific RoleAssignment
Best way to check if an user (not the current user), inserted in a ADGroup, belongs, or not, to SPList/SPWeb RoleAssignments?
Impersonate an use the .ContainsCurrentUser method, brings access denied ...
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user profile photos not appearing in search results even after full sync
I imported user photos to the thumbnailPhoto Active Directory attribute. I ran a full user profile synchronization. Then, I ran the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore PowerShell command as described here. ...
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How do I Augment Active Directory and CRM roles in Visual Studio?
I have a custom solution that allows users to login via CRM and this works fine. Also, users who can can login with windows authentication and this works fine. I need to combine the roles such that ...
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People Picker Control with Anonymous Access
SP2010 Visual C# Web Part.
How can I allow Anonymous users the ability to use the People Picker control? I have already tried the typical RunWithElevatedPrivileges but continue to get
"The control is ...
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Mutiple User Conflict : User changes after clicking ok in People Picker/Address book
I am trying to add a specific user on a SharePoint Site. While searching for that user in Address book by"Name" say "User A", its showing the correct user. But when i add that user by clicking Ok, ...
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Determine if SPPrincipal is SPUser, SPGroup or AD User
Context
I have a List<SPPrincipal> that is a mix of SPGroup, SPUser and AD Users.
Problem
I'm trying to find out how to determine if an SPPrincipal I have is an SPUser, SPGroup or an AD ...
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Mapping AD “member of” user property in sharepoint 2010 user profile properties
I need to map AD's "Member Of" property in sharepoint 2010 user profile properties. I found a guide on how to do that, How to map a user’s Active Directory group membership to their SharePoint profile ...
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Ability to create users inside SharePoint 2010
We have a very simple SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 installation. We created and configured everything manually, and only set up what we really needed. So there is no user profile service in SP, and we ...
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Claim auth from ADFS
I asked this question @StackOverflow[1] but maybe this is a better location for it:
I try to connect to a SharePoint Online instance via a WPF-Application (C#). I have found this article[2] that ...
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User Profile Synchronization - Filter by AD OU or DN attributes
I am attempting to filter out a subset of users in Active Directory from being pulled into the User Profile Service. The users need to be filtered by the Organizational Unit property (ou), which is ...
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sharepoint 2010 adding more fields in user profile, accessible from spuser
we have custom fields like e.g. Manager, Organisation, EmployeeCode.
currently we are creating a custom list to add these with respective SpUser.ID, which i think is wrong.
Can any one please guide ...
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Is it necessary to add AD users or groups seperately to Windows Auth mode application and extended FBA app when target site is same?
I have an "Intranet" web application "http://ABC.com" created under claims mode with Windows authentication. This Web app uses users and groups from Active Directory.
Say I have 2 security groups ...
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Will Sharepoint Sync User Profiles if only Domain Groups are Used?
In my sharepoint, I have assigned permissions for sites and pages by using only domain groups - that is, I am not using any sharepoint groups themselves. This works fine. It allows me to add and ...
