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Validation the identity of the user, usually with username and password authentication.

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Give users access to BDC using SQL Authentication

I have a web part using an external list through an external content type which uses Business Data Connectivity with SQL Server Authentication through the use of a Secure Store Service key. ...
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How to authenticate user in SharePoint online using javascript

I have a public site on Office 365 SharePoint Online. By default when user clicks on to sign in, it redirect to Microsoft login page. I don't want to redirect user to Microsoft login page. But ...
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How to Implement an LDAP Custom Login Page

I have read various guides on how to configure FBA with LDAP Membership provider and i am able to successfully login by configuring the config files for Central Admin, STSA, and Web App by using a ...
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OpenID Implementation , paid libraries? [closed]

Is there any paid library available for Openid implementation ,please list any paid libraries available ? Or does Microsoft support openid implementation ? ?
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Form based authentication FBA - keeps getting "Make sure your user name and password are correct"

I'm using Sharepoint 2013 Foundation. I have followed a few tutorials on getting the Form Based Authentication to work: http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/configuring-forms-based-...
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What is the FedAuth cookie and how is it used?

Can anyone explain what the FedAuth cookie is and how it differs from the ASP.Net ASPXAUTH cookie?
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How to programmatically check if the current sharepoint user name and password?

Hi, i am using client object model in c# win form. How to programmatically check if the current SharePoint user name and password is correct? here I log in using SharePoint Site URL, username and ...
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Dual authentication for document libraries

We have a SharePoint 2010 environment setup to use Kerberos which works wonderfully - users within our network are authenticated automatically and are not presented with a login prompt. For some ...
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Authorization against a user's membership in certain SharePoint groups via HttpModule

I'm trying to restrict access to certain pages of a SharePoint Web Application based upon a user's membership in certain SharePoint groups (restricting access to specific pages and functions, while ...
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Keberos cannot access internal URLs

I've activated Kerberos on my environment and it seems to be working fine for accessing the website using it's dns name: http://myintranet.mycompany.com I cannot however access sites anymore using ...
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Can SharePoint 2013/Online act as authentication provider for a SaaS

I have found lots of documentation about how to login to SharePoint using Google, Facebook, Microsoft Account, etc. But can you make it the other way around? Can SharePoint act as an authentication ...
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Identify user Authentication provider - FBA vs Domain

I have a SharePoint website configured to use both Windows (AD) Authentication and SQL Authentication with Forms based authentication.. I want to query all Form Based Authentication users.. Is there ...
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OAuth Authentication & Azure

I'm new to SharePoint development and using Office 365 SharePoint 2013. We need to replace our AD cloud based authentication servers with OAuth authentication. Am I correct in thinking that our SP ...
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need to know SharePoint 2010 web app using NTLM or Kerberos

How can I know whether my SharePoint 2010 Web Application is using NTLM or Kerberos authentication?
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SharePoint Lists Web Service Proxy Unauthorized Error

I am trying to get data from a SharePoint list by using SharePoint Lists Web service. I have a MS Office Excel Add-In with a WPF User Control inside it. I used the following code to make a proxy ...
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Getting SAML Token from SharePoint

I have a SharePoint running on SAML security and I'm creating a SharePoint web part to interact with an external system (kind of connector), the communacation is made using SOAP Web Services, to ...
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How to implement 2 factor authentication in Sharepoint 2010?

Can anyone please mention how to implement 2 factor authentication in Sharepoint 2010? I have been reading alot of stuff. but can not figure out what exactly should I do first. Can anyone atleast ...
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Have DNS set up, yet unable to access a web application unless it's in hosts file

I'm stuck unable to access a newly created sharepoint 2013 server web application (at portal.spdev.mycompany.com, with host header of same name) unless I have an entry for that web application in the ...
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SharePoint 2010 FBA Authentication Sequence - Behind the screen

I am new to SharePoint world and we are in process of implementing the FBA in SharePoint 2010 and it is working as we have followed some articles from net. Now I wanted to understand how does the ...
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What is the correct way to migrate a SharePoint web app from classic to claims based authentication?

In my new project, the client wants us to convert several web applications from Classic to Claims. I've read many articles on the steps to convert a SharePoint web application from classic mode to ...
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Exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' was thrown

I'm on 2010 Sharepoint. some users get the error when they're logged in with "remember me" checked and being inactive for more than 2 days. we have the cookies set to expires after 2 days and it ...
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Customize Log out page for a sub-site

Is there a way to log a user out of a sharepoint subsite and redirect them to a page different from the root site? I've searched far and wide, tried quite a bit and I still cannot figure out a way ...
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How to make a request to SharePoint 2013 REST service from code that runs inside SharePoint server (NOT from App/External code)

I have a page hosted in _layouts in SharePoint 2013. I want to make REST call to SharePoint REST api from this page using current user credentials. I don't want to do it from client-side (jquery etc) ...
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SharePoint 2010 Windows Authentication User Interface

The company I work for currently services 13 School districts who all authenticate through different active directories to our SharePoint 2010 site. We are currently looking for a way to switch the ...
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SharePoint 2010, CMIS Integration, and Claims-based Authentication

I have an application that integrates with content systems like Alfresco and IBM FileNet P8. Now, we have an SP 2010 system we are trying to integrate. The SP system is secured via Claims-based ...
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Refining Anonymous Access

On my sharepoint site collection I have enabled anonymous access for the "entire web site", and it is, indeed working. However, I find that I cannot choose "Anonymous Users" and add them to any ...
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How to configure a SVC Web Service MultipleBaseAddressWebServiceHostFactory disabling anonymous users

I developed a SVC on SharePoint 2010 that uses MultipleBaseAddressWebServiceHostFactory. Inside of some methods I need to know who's the caller. I find that I have two way to get it: Thread....
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SharePoint Claims authentication on external zone : Could not retrieve the IIS Settings. Parameter name: context

SPClaimsUtility.AuthenticateFormsUser(Context.Request.UrlReferrer, txtEmail.Text, txtPassword.Text); This authenticates the user properly and lets me through to a page that needs authentication on ...
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Programatically adding All Authenticated Users

I want to give all authenticated users read access to a list (that stores some configuration for a feature). "All Authenticated Users" is a special concept in SharePoint, but the implementation ...
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SharePoint 2010 office document prompts authentication windows

I have a SharePoint 2010 portal (Claims based + NTLM + SSL). If I open office document within domain it prompts for login window and even if I enter correct user name and password and it doesn't ...
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Sharepoint 2010 and TMG configuration

I have a SharePoint 2010 Portal that uses claims based authentication with NTLM. The portal was published to TMG with site name something like staff.portal.com I have also installed certificates in ...
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Allow any user?

Please forgive the novice question, but I can't seem to find the answer. Is there a way to allow any user access to a SharePoint site without having to add them to a group or turn on anonymous ...
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NTLM or Kerberos for Intranet & Internet application in SharePoint 2010

NTLM or Kerberos.... which authentication is suitable for Intranet application? Internet application? Will answer differ if 3rd party tools are used? for MySite and ContentType Hub application ...
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Authentication in Sharepoint - Could you explain me?

Im learning SP and i have everything installed and running. The only thing im not sure about is authentication: 1)If you run your SP installation on LAN and the only users who can access it, is ...
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How external users can access the SharePoint application in case the SharePoint is connected to our company active directory

I have created a Publishing Web application and I have specified that SharePoint is connected to our company Active Directory. Now all our employees are able to login to the SharePoint publishing site ...
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Sharepoint Search Box is requiring Authentication.. Help :)

Seems like it should be relatively easy, but I'm having difficulties allowing anonymous users to enter a value in the search box without share point prompting that user for authentication. I have ...
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workflow consuming WCF Service in https - First Call takes too much time

I have a State machine Workflow that consumes a WCF Service in https (Basic Authentication, security mode transport). It works fine in our test environment, but it had problem in the integration ...
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window authentication in Office 365 from client context

I want to access office 365 list from window application. Is it possible to access using window authentication ? i don't want to pass user id and password
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Sharepoint - Office 365 login on PHP

I'm trying to implement a simple login with Sharepoint on a PHP existing application. I have read many information (some related to Client side login -but only works for windows AFAIK-) and forums ...
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Types of Authentications [closed]

How many types of authentications are there in Sharepoint 2007 vs. 2010 vs. 2013. In what scenarios do we use these types of authentication? For each type, how does the logon form look like (...
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claims/default zone issue

We have a 2010 environment with a Dev, stage, and production environment. We try to keep them identical (at least on stage and prod) the best we can. We are having a strange issue with getting our ...
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Embedding an existing web service inside a SharePoint iframe and passing in the Authenticated user

Apologies if this doesn't really fit here, but I think I'm in that situation where I'm pretty sure the info is out there, but I just don't know what to search for to find it. What I'm looking to do ...
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SharePoint Online Authentication (Wave 15, non-.NET Code)

For those who are unaware, it was possible to authenticate to SharePoint Online by sending an OASIS SAML token with credentials to login.microsoftonline.com/extSTS.srf and you'd get back a security ...
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Need extra layer of authentication on SharePoint list

The following below was requested in an effort to eliminate any security isses. (We are currently using the default NTLM authentication): -Create a hidden URL extention for admin's only (new site ...
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Sharepoint - SAML Authentication

I have a Sharepoint web application running on SAML security (based on user e-mail). I have a problem with one user that is not managing to log-in. Basically the IT admin, have done a mistake and have ...
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MOSS 2007 authenticating users only from a single AD group

I have an AD group called "internal users" which has read-only access to the whole root site for my site collection. Everyone is fine with the access, as long as I don't move them out from this group ...
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SharePoint 2013 Workflow Configuration Error (Authentication)

I am a newbie when it comes to server configuration and maintenance. I installed a copy of SharePoint 2013 for evaluation purposes and got everything up and running okay, but have run into issues ...
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AD authentication not updating

I have a problem with AD authentication. When I add a user to an AD group the user gets instant access. However if I remove a user that user continues to have access till the following morning. I ...
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Have FBA users visible (via people picker) to a non-FBA site

I have a publishing site collection extended into two zones: Zone1: (default zone, win auth only- internal users) Zone2: (internet zone, fba only- external users) I want zone1 users to be able to ...
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Can people picker resolve NTLM users only in an FBA extended

I have implemeted FBA with LDAP and NTLM Authentication, I want people picker only resolve names for NTLM users not for FBA. Please help... Thanks
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