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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SharePoint 2010 PeoplePicker Control Not Displaying User Data
In a test SharePoint environment, I have configured the User Profile Service, and the user profiles have been successfully populated into the UPS using the User profile Synchronization Service from ...
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Import User profiles from AD not working
I intend to import user profiles from AD to SharePoint 2010 but I can't do it. See the process that I am following below:
When I got to User Profile Service Application -> Configure Synchronization ...
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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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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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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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People picker / Add users to groups resolves non-existing ad users and groups
I have an odd problem. I have a site where I'm able to resolve ad groups that no longer exists. I can see them if I search in the people picker or I can type it in and resolve it just fine.
If I try ...
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How to access programmatically to Active Directory Properties from an SPUser
I'd like to know how can I do to access to Active Directory information (eg: Department) of an User starting from an SPUser... I've User Profile Service configured and I see in Sharepoint those ...
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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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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 getting resolved in a FBA enabled site
I have configured forms authentication on a web application. FBA users can be used to access the website but NTLM users not getting resolved. Because of this I cannot use AD users in SharePoint.
I ...
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PurgeNonImportedObjects doesn’t remove user accounts?
Our customer has switched his AD to a new one. We have migrated users in SharePoint, but the User Profile Service doesn’t work for 73 of 7024 users. These users can log in to SharePoint, but doesn’t ...
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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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People search yielding no results in spite of a successful User Profile Synchronization?
I have used the sharepoint farm configuration wizard to setup all services under spfarm account and everything works fine. However I am having trouble with Searching for people.
Here is the link I ...
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Is Active Directory Synchronisation possible without Exchange?
I've been checking out SharePoint (Foundation, Server, Online) for a customer of ours, and one of the requirements is synchronisation with Active Directory. I stumbled upon this virtual lab while ...
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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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Populate SharePoint list with unique elements based on a domain AD property (for instance Department)
I wish to create a Site Column, that will display all existing departments in our company.
We have the correct departments setup in our AD, and all users subject for this list are part of the same OU ...
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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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Securing Application Pages
I have a set of application pages stored in the _layouts virtual directory, that I'd like to secure, in order to prevent unauthorized access to the pages, as well as prevent certain actions from being ...
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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 Display a treeview Control in a webpart Or Alternatives
Hi I developed a TreeView that listing groups and users in them, but for some reason I cant find the best way even googled it,
here's the Code
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
...
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Populate SharePoint Contact List with AD user information
I want to import user information (contacts) from Active Directory (AD) and populate contact list in Sharepoint 2010.
I bet the easiest way is to import contacts from outlook. However, this will not ...
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User Profile Synchronization: How to delete/overwrite “Job Title” property?
The UPS animal is a strange one. I just don't know how I can delete or overwrite a property completely.
I have the Job Title property (Imported from AD) filled on all my users. I want to change this ...
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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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Remove old profiles from upgrade to 2010
when i upgraded our environment from 2007 to 2010 it seems everyones profiles came with it. I did a cutover upgrade so i would have thought that any profiles in my 2007 environment would have been ...
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Peoplepicker returning with “No exact match was found” for a 1-way trust
Problem:
When selecting an user in the peoplepicker, and posting the page to the server, an error is returned that the user cannot be found (No exact match was found). This happens when a task is to ...
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How to configure Sharepoint 2010 to get user from multiple domains
I have a farm installed on a machine in domain X. Domain X is "trusted" relation with another domain Y.
If I want to programmatically get an user, I can do something like:
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SharePoint 2010 not seeing Active Directory users
This is a repost from here: http://serverfault.com/questions/380590/sharepoint-2010-not-seeing-active-directory-users Not sure how to migrate questions.
I'm pretty new to Active Directory and ...
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cannot add External Domain User To Group
I have a problem about adding a User to Group using a custom code (web part / web services is the same). In my organization I have 2 Active Directory domain (DOMAIN and DOMAINEXT). My Sharepoint farm ...
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Strange problem with adding some users
I'm encountering problems adding "some" users(of a certain domain) to a group..
The code works every "domain1" user, but for "domain2" for doesn't:
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How do modify active directory user properties?
I use this code for find users in AD
SearchResultCollection results = null;
try
{
SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
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How to import users from a different domain in User Profile service application?
The sharepoint server is setup in the public domain and all service accounts used for installation and configuration are based off of the same(public)domain as well. The server is meant to host the ...
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Searching people in Active Directory doesn't work
I've installed SharePoint 2010 for my organization. When giving permissions to people I can find anyone on the organization's Active Directory easily, out of the box. No special steps are needed.
But ...
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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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What are the advantages of Active Directory over FBA?
I am on FBA (Claim-based) Authentication and plan to migrate to Active Directory. My System is SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites. I want to know what additional benefits I will gain if I migrate to ...
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User Contact List and Lync
I am struggling in creating a contact list.
Our company requires a sharepoint contact list so that the details of AD users are shown.
It would be great if the online status of users is shown.
I think ...
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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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Import and Export last profile picture to AD
I actually want to have a perfect sync of my Sharepoint site with my AD for profile picture. So, I need to have a bi-directionnal import of profile picture and a mean to have the most recent picture ...
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Moving Users between OU's in Active directory and User Profile Sync
Currently we are going through a process of moving our users from one active directory OU to another OU within the same forest.
The issue that is now becoming apparent is that the users that have ...
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Are permissions transfered through multiple stages from AD?
I am setting up a SharePoint site where the security permissions are configured as follows:
Active directory security group: Users -> SharePoint (OU) -> WebAuthors
My user, geir, is a member of the ...
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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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User Profile Sync not running
Under the User Profile Service Application, I noticed that the Profile Synchronization Status was set to "Synchronizing Stop". Which is weird, as it was noon, and the incrementals are supposed to ...
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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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How do you import AD Security groups into SharePoint?
How do you import Active Directory security groups for SP into SharePoint itself?
I have created the group and added the users, just want to have that group displayed when you go to the Site ...
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how can pages/ documents be auto tagged based on active directory information?
Is it possible to auto tag pages and documents based on a users active directory data, such as the team, section, department they work in?
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Script or Code to import from AD to Sharepoint Group All users
I'm looking for a script or code to make Sharepoint know 'bout users from active directory.. I have 3 domains and People Picker sees people but cannot resolve that (suggest only).. I read in many ...
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Sharepoint sets wrong profile picture to some people who don't have one
My problem is that Sharepoint 2010 sets by default a wrong profile picture which owns to another profile to some profile which don't have any one. But next, some profile who don't have any profile ...
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Filter Library on SharePoint Foundation 2010 based on user membership
I'm trying to filter the rows of a Document Library on a SharePoint Foundation 2010. I would like to filter depending on the user:
Department of the user
I don't mind if that is done via AD groups ...
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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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build less intensive dev ad for sp2010
now that sharepoint will support AD like Active Directory, SUN One LDAP, IBM Tivoli, and Novell eDirectory. what is the most logical to create a less intensive ad for dev?
