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How to retrive all the user account info and email and make a data view webpart

I am trying to create a data view webpart with url parameter ID (_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=(@ID).. where all the user information especially user name, email and some basic information can be obtain ...
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Sharepoint 2010 restricts priviliges on accessing locally

I'm installed SPS2010 Standard on Win8 developer machine. Installation performed under domain account. This account also used as farm administrator. After installation, I'm checked "Central ...
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Autocomplete Textbox from Active Directory Users

Im making a webpart where a user should be able to add other users from active directory, without being able to know their full name etc. The field should be autocompleted in some way (like googles ...
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People picker username resolving in Lists but not Calendar - SharePoint 2013

We have an issue with Person/Group fields in an Events Calendar, where if the full name is entered 'Ken Kenniff' then it resolves fine. However if the username is entered 'kkenniff' then it doesnt ...
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Problems with Check Permissions form

I have a SharePoint 2010 production environment and I'm experiencing unusual behaviour with the Check Permissions form. I know that a user has access, but the Check Permissions form is not reporting ...
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Assign task to a member of AD Group

Ok here's the situation: I added an AD group (ADGroup) to my Sharepoint Group (SPGroup), the users in ADGroup now can login to the site successfully but I cannot assign task to any user in a group, ...
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2010 - displayNames from Active Directory not staying consistent

We are having a problem in which the "Name" portion of some people's profiles are being updated on the periodic sync wiping out the proper displayName which should just be their first and last names ...
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Deleted user profile from sharepoint, profile not picked from AD again

I have SharePoint 2010 configured to pick user profile details from AD. I had a user whose details were incorrectly picked by SharePoint. We have what you would define as 2 ADs. One for the parent ...
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(AD) People picker works on some parts of Central Admin and not on others

SharePoint Server 2010 (not just Foundation) If I go to Central Admin>Application Management>Manage service applications and select Business Data Connectivity Service, then click Administrators, I can ...
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Validate InfoPath 2010 People Picker against AD groups within SharePoint groups

I would like to find a code-less way to validate a People Picker selection (limited to a single selection of a user) against whether they are considered to be in a (dynamic) SharePoint group which ...
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AccountManagement Namespace problem with RODC

I am creating a webpart in which I am writing a code to change active directory password of the current context user but I am getting this error: Password couldn't be changed due to restrictions: ...
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Sharepoint broke Active Directory?

Have a bit of a urgent issue here and hope I can get some advice. I suspect that somehow Sharepoint 2010 User Profile Sync overwrote certain active directory properties with null or empty values. I ...
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Can Move-SPUser be used to merge users if security is not a factor?

We manage all our site security via AD group memberships. We are currently in the process of folding four AD domains into a fifth domain that already exists. Our farm is in one of those four domains ...
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Sharepoint change password webpart

I have created a webpart in which it uses AccountManagement namespace methods to change the current users password but this message shows up: Configuration information could not be read from the ...
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What is the bext way to update user profile info in AD from Sharepoint?

Is there a way to update a users profile in AD from sharepoint? Is there a web part available, one that I can develop or any other interface that I could build/use? Thanks
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How can I map the ADGuid Property for import in the User Profile Service Application?

I am trying to use the User Profile Service Application to import the ADGuid (Active Directory ID) from Active Directory into SharePoint 2010. There is already a default property to store this data, ...
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User Profile Service not setup, but user information from Active Directory Exists

I have yet to setup the User Profile Service on my new SP2010 Farm. Yet when I go to view my user information or other users' information, it contains properties (mobile number, department, etc) that ...
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Claims FBA with a remote active directory membership provider

I plan on setting up Claims FBA using the AD membership provider, but I would like to use a AD Domain that is remote (not the domain that the SP Farm lives on). Is this possible? Is it any different ...
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Email Sync via Microsoft 365? (SharePoint Online)

I currently have SharePoint, and am the Administrator of the site and the server. With the company we currently use Microsoft Outlook, and that is hooked up through an exchange server. there is no ...
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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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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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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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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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Forgot password in sharepoint with activedirectory membership?

0 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SharePoint 2010 Workflow Active Directory Group Enumeration

I am working on sending mail via workflow and would like for list inserts by a particular user, say user1, to send mail to a particular AD group, say TestGroup1. Similarly, for user2 to userN. Is it ...
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People Picker for AD LDS FBA

I have set up a test system to evaluate the use of AD LDS in an extranet scenario. I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with Sharepoint 2010 SP1 installed. This machine is joined to an AD domain, and has ...
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Can't get Division from UserProfile Store in SharePoint 2007

There is an attribute in AD called "division" which we have mapped in SharePoint 2007 and crawled in. It shows in our Profiles. I'm trying to update a custom list through a timer job that pulls the ...
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Rights Management Services Error

I have a Sharepoint site with lots of Document Libraries. I have configured Rights Management on those libraries, however I'm under a problem. I have full control permissions within all the libraries ...
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Get all users from active directory to sharepoint

I have to populate my autocomplete PeopleEditor-like control based on brililant ASPTokenInput with all people from my AD domain. Reflecting PeopleEditor shows a real mess in their Active Directory ...
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SP2010 Install on virtual [closed]

I started to work on a home based play project where I wanted to created at least 2 VM (using vmware). Server 2k8 went good. then I moved on to setup AD (DC) and completed this piece. next step was to ...
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SharePoint 2007 forms authentification and RoleManager

I'm trying to set up Forms Authentification with ActiveDirectory in SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0). I made it to the point where I can see users with prefix ad:<username> but I'm having trouble to ...
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Sharepoint Profile not reading some AD fields

I have on my Sharepoint Profiles some fields that are mapped to the Active Directory (Name, job title, phone etc). I have added some info on the AD field called "Description", and when i went to map ...
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stsadm createsite “User cannot be found” error

I'm trying to create a site collection via stsadm. I do: STSADM -o createsite ` -url "<url>" ` -title "<title>" ` -description "<desc>" ` -lcid 1033 ` ...
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People picker very slow with active directory

Using a standard people picker on a task form - searching the AD (active directory) is very slow. Example: John Smith (smith@domain.com) When I enter smith in the people picker and hit CTRL+K ...
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Getting AD Information

I need to certain information. I read that it is not possible to get AD information unless you have some sort of solution that accesses it. So the other option is the SharePoint user profiles. How ...