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

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Crawler authentication in SharePoint 2013 for STS based external website

I am not able to crawl website that has STS (security token service) based authentication using FAST Search for SharePoint 2013 . I tried Form credentials and Cookie based authentication in Crawl ...
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Restricting Anonymous user to see only public content from SharePoint 2013 index

I have crawled and indexed some public and private(that requires windows authentication) websites using SharePoint 2013 Search. I also added new web app and created new site collection using built-en ...
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authentication prompt opening Word docs in anonymous access

We currently are chasing down an issue with opening word documents in SharePoint 2010. This is an intranet solution that is set to anonymous access. What occurs is when a user selects a document it ...
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Using Single Sign On to log into external website from SharePoint

We have a SharePoint 2010 server and another site (a service desk tool) that has a custom forms based authentication (not related to SharePoint). It would be nice if the SharePoint users wouldn't ...
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Make WebRequest to auth type Windows | Wss 3.0

I have wss 3.0 with auth type Integrated Windows Authentication/Kerberos. I want to make custom login form. I developed below codes. After executed I got error: The remote server returned an error: ...
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How can we configure WSS 3 to disallow user authentication from select OUs?

I'm working with a web admin who has recently improved our WSS 3 deployment such that selected user OUs (e.g. service accounts, domain admins) in our Active Directory forest are explicitly ...
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SSRS SP Integrated Using Trusted Authentication Mode but Data Souce Using Windows Integrated

I configured our Reporting Service Integration in Central Admin to use the Trusted authentication mode. From what I understand, this mode allows a data source to run using stored credentials. I also ...
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Sharepoint 2010 MySite Profile Pictures displaying on another Web App / Site Collection Requiring Authentication multiple times [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Sharepoint 2010 MySite Profile Pictures displaying on another Web App / Site Collection Requiring Authentication multiple times We have Sharepoint 2010 installed with ...
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Sharepoint 2010 MySite Profile Pictures displaying on another Web App / Site Collection Requiring Authentication multiple times

We have Sharepoint 2010 installed with MySites setup, allowing our users to upload their own profile picture. This seems to work great, however when we start using things like Discussion lists on ...
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Configuring FBA in SharePoint 2010

I have a web application in which Windows Authentication is configured. I want to configure FBA for the same web application. I know I can extend the web application to a different zone and configure ...
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SharePoint 2010 Mixed Mode Custom SignIn ArgumentException

I'm using an ASP.Net LoginView to sign users into my web site. The authentication process runs through successfully, but when the user is redirected back to the designation url provider, I get the ...
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70 - 667 Exam question confusion

I am bit confused with this question for 70 - 667 exam question, seems like there are more then 1 right answer to the question. You configure a SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) farm. ...
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Consuming On-Prem SQL Data from SharePoint 2013 Online (Office 365)

At a high level, What's the recommended Development model if we want to consume local (On-Prem) SQL data from Office 365 SharePoint 2013 Cloud application? Say we have a custom SharePoint List Form ...
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Users added programmatically can not authenticate

I'm adding users programmatically to a SharePoint site. I'm doing this by adding the users domain login into the "[SiteName] Members" group. Unfortunately, users added this way are not able to ...
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Login anonymous user with username and password by code on a SharePoint main page

I have a custom usercontrol to logon users. My Authentication setting: Authentication Type: Windows Enabled anonymous access IIS Authentication Setting: Basic authentication Now is the question ...
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Signout behavior without closing the browser?

We have, essentially, a custom asp.net application inside of SharePoint. We have a Logout button in the application that redirects to the _layouts/SignOut.aspx page. The user sees a message informing ...
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Sign-in link does not appear

This is rather strange. The Sign-In link (upper right corner) has disappeared from an entire SharePoint web application. Anyone run into this situation before?
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authentication between host-named site collection, https and http

Here's my situation and I'm wondering what the best way to solve it is. I have two domains and I'm trying to pass credentials between them. Maybe it's not possible, but here goes...... Domain One ...
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Infopath Form with Password validation

we have a request from a client to add some type of password validation to one of their info path forms. This means that before the user could submit the form they would somehow be prompted for their ...
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Strategy for correct external authentication?

I'm a bit confused about the different terminology, components and steps to make my scenario work. I'm working on a SP 2010 platform that can have multiple authentication mechanisms : Anonymous, ...
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Always getting access denied for all loginaccounts

I'm in a middle of a process of setting sp_accounts to sp services and for some wrong behaviour I'm always getting access denied when enter the webapp for all accounts. Claims service could be the ...
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People Picker attempts to use claim based authentication but the web application authentication provider is classic / windows

We recently in-place upgraded our sharepoint 2007 to sharepoint 2010. We were using Windows authentication in the 2007 environment and wish to continue doing so in the 2010 environment. The ...
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SAML authentication not working properly for the roles

I am facing an issue regarding the authentication in SP 2010. The scenario is below: WindowsTokenLifetime, FormsTokenLifetime and ServiceTokenLifetime are set to 365 days. Login with the user on ...
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User not logged in even after Fed Auth shows it's expiration in year 2015

I have an issue regarding the cookies. I have set all 3 FormsTokenLifetime, WindowsTokenLifetime and ServiceTokenLifetime to 365 days and the cookie is persistent. When any user login to the site ...
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Identify Current Authentication Method Being Used

I am working on a solution that needs to act slightly differently if the incoming request is NTLM vs. Kerberos vs. ADFS, etc. Does anyone have an example of how to determine the incoming ...
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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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SharePoint 2010 Claims to Classic PowerShell help

I have a client requirement to move from Classic to Claims. I'm currently utilizing some PowerShell from http://derekmartin.org/archives/701 $webApp = $farm = get-SPFarm $wa = get-SPWebApplication ...
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Hosted SharePoint to support OAuth/OpenID authentication?

Is it yet reasonably possible to integrate OAuth or OpenID authentication as a means of signing into SharePoint? Preferably, any obsolete account management features would be entirely hidden away ...
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Login defaults to the wrong domain in certain situations

User authentication fails in certain situations because the domain is incorrect. If my domain is DOMAINA the user would have to enter DOMAINA\username to authenticate correctly. When we designed our ...
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Share Documents with External User using Live ID?

I get this question from potential customers at every seminar we hold, but I'm unable to answer. Problem is I can’t find the pod cast or other source which described this issue. Is it possible to ...
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How to check if AD or Forms is down?

If you want to return all users in an AD Group you can use this method : SPPrincipalInfo[] principals = SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup(SPContext.Current.Web, "TestGroup", 1000, out maxReached); ...
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Repeated login prompts and being logged in as another user?

When visiting the root site, users are repeatedly prompted to login. After many prompts, a partial page will begin to display. If more than 1 user is attempting to login in the above fashion, another ...
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Multiple authentications for web applciation and sub site

I've root site collection MainSite. Also I have another site collectionSubSite hosted on "http://MainSit/SubSite" and "http://MainSit/SubSite1". Question: Is it possible to have Anonymous ...
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How authentication is done when using a CAML query for SharePoint List in a console application

I am try to develop a console application in Visual Studio which uses CAML query to get data from SharePoint List. The question is, how does the console application authenticates from the SharePoint ...
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How to programmatically determine if anonymous access is enabled for a SharePoint 2010 Web Application using C#?

In Central Administration\Manage Web Applications, there is the ability to enable anonymous access on a web application through the authentication providers. Is there a way to programmatically ...
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WSS 3 and external web site authorization : How to know if user is logged in

I am not common with ISS and SharePoint technologies ... I'll try to explain what I need to do. There is a web site (call it Site A) running under ISS 6.0 and SharePoint in a Window Server 2003 with ...
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Working with external authentication providers

My application currently uses ADFS authentication.The application is used by external partners(WXY,XYZ,ABC,LMN).Now i am planning to make the application SS0.For this i am going to use STS.Also SAML ...
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SharePoint BCS with SOAP web service using custom authentication

I'm very new to using BCS in SharePoint 2010. I'm not really sure how to go about my problem or if it's even possible without coding a custom solution in Visual Studio using .NET. I have a SOAP web ...
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Authenication error when accessing SharePoint Webservice using java

I am trying to access SharePoint UserGroup service using a Java client. I have generated the stubs from the WSDL using axis2-1.6.2 and using the following code to access the user group but getting ...
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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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When searching for a user, SharePoint prompts for login for mysite

We are running SharePoint 2010 Server. We have setup mysites on a seperate web application. Whenever a user searches from our intranet for users, SharePoint will prompt for login for the data coming ...
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Authentication - multiple web domains

We use claims based authentication and have one application running, say www.abc.com This application authenticates against AD via claimns provider. We would like to deploy another web site: ...
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Log out from SharePoint Server with rtFa cookies

I've found out from this article that rtFa cookies intended to make user log out. How to use rtFa cookies to log out: attach rtFa to HTTP-request and send it to a web service? Where should I send the ...
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Office 365 SharePoint Authentication from Objective-C on IOS

I want to create an IOS app that connects to my Office365 SharePoint team site using the list rest services. How do I do authentication? Any examples?
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How to restrict SharePoint authentication cookies to subdomain?

I have a corporate site which is exposed through SharePoint, actually, from different farms, under the same domain. Of course, they are independent from the internal point of view, but from the user's ...
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how to change windows based to form based authentication?

I extended current web application to extranet and initially used windows based authentication. Now the business unit wants form based authentication for the extended extranet site. changing option ...
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How to get available ADFS server(s) and realm(s) from SharePoint server?

From a browser, if I have a single ADFS (STS), I can get the ADFS URL and realm from the redirect in HTTP reponse. If I have more than 1 STS configured on a SharePoint site, I will be prompted (Home ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Exchange Calendar overlay error

SharePoint Calendar gives that error below when using SharePoint Exchange Calendar overlay. The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ntlm'. The authentication header ...
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Authentication in a webpart return a Null Exception

I'm trying to make a authentication WebPart. For this, i used tghios tutorial: ...
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Is it possible to use SharePoint Logger from MS P&P SharePoint 2010 Guidance Library when user is not authenticated?

I am working on custom authentication for SharePoint 2010. And I found very useful to use SharePoint Logger from MS P&P SharePoint 2010 Guidance Library. It works fine when I get instance of ...