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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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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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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How Can I Enable Editing for User Information AD Properties?
In a list, I have a column for users. When I click on the username it opens up the user profile panel with information gotten from AD for that user. This is good.
You would think that if I ...
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Issues with migrating SharePoint 2010 from one AD to another
I currently have an AD which needs some work, and are building a new one and assigning a trust.
However I'm also doing a SP 2010 build. Will there be any issues if I hook SP 2010 up to the current ...
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Pull ALL Active Directory users into SharePoint 2010
I have a SharePoint 2010 farm with a User Profile Service (UPS) configured. It reaches into my AD Forest and pulls out exactly 24 users. There are about 150 users in my company's Active Directory. ...
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Where are users in SharePoint stored?
Quick question, I don't know how SharePoint i set up like this, but where are users stored? I recently got to a new workplace and there's a Sharepoint site here which has been programmed a bit. And I ...
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Set permission to SharePoint 2010 site to ALL users of Active Directory
I have created web-app in SharePoint 2010 using workgroup layout.
I can assign users from my Active Directory manually.
Is there a way to allow access to all AD automatically?
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How to use AD group in SharePoint 2010
I'm relatively new to SP2010 and wondered about a few Active Directory permission things:
Is it possible to limit access to lists and pages to a specific AD group?
We have a helpdesk area that will ...
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Get Current User's Department Name and Manager From Active Directory
How the "department name" and "manager" attribute value could be retrieved from active directory programmatically? For ex. i will have custom newform.aspx to create some new item, in the code-behind ...
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How do I add an AD account to a sharepoint group from a different (non-sharepoint server)
For reasons beyond my control, I have to run our e-commerce on a non-sharepoint server.
I can easily create an AD account and have no problems there.
Now, on a different box, I need to add the ...
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Sharepoint and Active Directory Integration
New to the whole Sharepoint business, so any help is appreciated.
Whenever a new user is created in Active Directory,
I'd like Sharepoint to automatically populate itself to add the entry as a ...
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SharePoint 2010 and Active Directory
I would like to know in details the effects of SharePoint 2010 on the Active Directory 2008 R2.
Currently, we have a SharePoint 2007 production and development environments. Both environments are ...
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User Profile Service and Account disabled
I'm facing a problem after I have installed and configured the User Profile Service.
When I create the synch everything work fine but now the system floods active directory with wrong credential (I ...
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How to import from FBA (Claim-based) to Active Directory (AD)?
I am on FBA (Claim-based). I need to shift to Active Directory. Is it possible to do it? The reason is that I am missing out on many features which are unavailable on FBA.
Any help is appreciated!
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stsadm migrateuser: The user does not exist or is not unique
I'm running:
stsadm -o migrateuser -oldlogin "domain1\user" -newlogin "domain2\user" -ignoreidhistory
and getting the error "The user does not exist or is not unique".
The users exist in both ...
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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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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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SharePoint 2010 People Picker Issues
I recently performed a database attach upgrade from a SharePoint 2003 system to SharePoint 2007, then up to SharePoint 2010. Everything is running well, for the most part. But one of our biggest ...
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Add a server to SharePoint Admin user?
I need to add one of our production servers (that hosts SQL Server 2008) let's say XXX to SharePoint Admin in SharePoint 2010. How can I do that?
I agree that a server is not a user or a group. Let ...
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People picker is picking users from AD even though user profile service is not connected to AD
I have seen this scenario at my office I had installed sharepoint on a new machine at my office. After installing I tried to add a new user profile. When clicking on account name I can see that I can ...
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Active Directory users not listed when trying to add users to SharePoint Foundation 2010
this was previously asked on serverfault by me:
http://serverfault.com/q/389357/121152
I'm running SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 and I'm having a problem adding users ...
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Updating Active Directory 'webpage' property
We currently have a SharePoint 2007 environment that has been in use for years now. When it was set up, it automatically entered information into the Active Directory property 'webpage' for all users ...
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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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AD groups with upper-case letters are all lower-case if added in wss
we are running an wss 3.0 connected to AD.
New Users were directly given permissions to subsites/lists by adding them to the permission list in sharepoint. The users are already in AD security groups ...
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Does Sharepoint use the wWWHomePage attribute in AD?
I have been working with synchronizing users into Active Directory, from an external data source, and one of the attributes of interest is wWWHomePage, and the AD folk have noticed that many users ...
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Sharepoint shows wrong account for User Profile Syncronisation Service
I've been trying to start UPS Sync Service in my SP2010 Farm.
Here what I do:
Create a UPS Sync Service Application with a managed account (DOMAIN\spservices).
Click on newly created application, ...
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How do I pull the email address from Active Directory?
I have a custom phone list that was populated from an Excel spreadsheet. I have to add the email address to this list in SharePoint. How do I query Active Directory for the correct email address for ...
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Sharepoint 2010 server running stand alone, how to add domain accounts to it for auth?
I have a SharePoint server that is not running on our primary domain. I would like the users to come from AD on our primary domain.
so users can login with their [domain][account].
I would also ...
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Synchronize User Profile data from an external list
I would like to use additional properties from another datasource (SQL server) as additional user properties, then push them back to active directory. I setup a sample BCS to the sql server ...
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How to synchronise changes in Active Directory with Sharepoint profile info
I recently had an incident where the email details of a Sharepoint user were changed in Active Directory. These changes were not transferred into SharePoint and I had a problem in one of my web parts ...
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“User cannot be found.” error in Powershell
I am writing a PowerShell script to re-sync my users to the AD because of a problem I have described Here. From time to time I get a "Set-SPUser : user cannot be found." error but when I call the same ...
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SP2010 - User profile results with mix-and-match NETBIOS/DNS domains
First off, let me say that User Profile Service is provisioned and generally runs normally. We're running on February 2012 CU.
We're in the middle of a domain merge, combining five AD domains into ...
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Is possible to rename a SPUser(IsDomainGroup) LoginName?
I want to rename SPPrincipals that are ADGroups.
I've tried with
$SPFarm = Get-SPFarm
#$SPFarm.MigrateGroup("loginName", "newLoginName")
$SPFarm.MigrateUserAccount("loginName", "newLoginName", ...
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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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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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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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custom pickerEntity tied to Sharepoint list
I have an application page that uses sharepoint people picker. I also have another sharepoint page that has what I called allContacts, which is a custom list with unique contacts. I want the people ...
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How to create page simlar to Person.aspx
We currently provide an email signature creator that employees can either use or not. The form asks users to enter information that we have in Active Directory. So, I was wondering if somebody can ...
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Access control with a very large AD group
I'm working with a company that has 100k+ employees, contractors, and external partners who have user accounts in their Active Directory. People fall into different categories:
Employees (60k)
...
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AD security groups renamed. PeoplePicker in Sharepoint 2010 still shows old values
Sharepoint 2010.
Our IT guys have recently renamed many Active Directory security groups, however PeoplePicker appears to now display both the old name and new name in results. I assume the new name ...
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Domain user cannot be found
I'm trying to add my domain account as a secondary site collection admin but for some reason it can't find the account.
I'm currently logged in with servcenter\my.name but the people picker does not ...
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Avoid specifying domain at logon?
Is it possible to configure Sharepoint 2010 (or maybe IIS) to automatically assume a logon domain during authentication?
We have a pretty long domain name and would like to alleviate the user from ...
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How to manage users in Active Directory?
I have managed to get Active Directory Auth working on my SharePoint environment. Now, I need to get User Management working for Active Directory. i.e. I want to add, delete & modify user profiles ...
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User Profile AD Sync - 2 Way Field-Level Update Permissions
I've got a working AD->SharePoint 2010 user sync running and also have 2-way updating specificed for for some of the user profile fields via the users' My Site.
While this is very handy for contact ...
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Resolve User ID
We currently have a user ID that had been issued to two different employees at two different times... neither of which overlapped. The accounts were also created seperately in AD. One initially, ...
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Sync AD Email to SharePoint 2007 Users
I have a AD that is populated to feed a SharePoit (SP) site, initial the AD did not have any email addresses in it, so when the users in SP were created the email was not present.
Now the emails have ...
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List contents of Active Directory in List
I have got my AD set up with Sharepoint 2010, but I need to display a list of all users in the AD as a list of contacts. How do I go about doing this?
Thanks
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Syncing AD User with AD Groups
i want to create a ad connection in user profile service application, which sync specific users. These users are members of a group. When i check this group in the "AD Container" and start a full ...
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SharePoint 2010 with UAG - LDAP and AD users
We are trying to test the following setup.
We have a SharePoint Farm in our forest (setup to use Kerberos). The DC of the SharePoint farm domain contains an AD with external users and their ...
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SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup and Claims authentication issue
I have the requirement to enumerate a list of users that are in an Active Directory group that has been granted rights to an SPWeb. If the site collection is using windows auth this is no problem and ...
