Validation the identity of the user, usually with username and password authentication.
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Kerberos on Chrome, Safari or FireFox
recently enabled Kerberos on my SharePoint 2010 install. If I browse from IE, I see logins authenticate over Kerberos protocol. If I browse from any other browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari..), NTLM ...
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Windows Authentication and Trusted Identity Provider - User mapping to a single identity store
First, let me describe the scenario:
I have a Web Application with 2 enabled Identity Providers
Windows Authentication
Custom Trusted Identity Provider (that provider handles PingFederate
SAML ...
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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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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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1answer
122 views
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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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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1answer
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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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Impersonation in a net.tcp WCF-service in a claims based/Kerberos solution
I have tried to keep this as short as possible, dont hesitate if you want more details.
Im trying to get impersonation (of calling user) to work over a net.tcp WCF-Service in a Sharepoint ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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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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1answer
356 views
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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1answer
615 views
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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2answers
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accessing database through sharepoint using a service account (windows account)
I am having an issue with connecting to the database for KHouse through sharepoint.
I have run through several workarounds to get it to work, but to no avail.
We are using several pages that retrieve ...
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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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SharePoint 2010 FBA Access Denied for Forms Users
I setup SharePoint 2010 FBA using ASP Net Membership database following the article: Step by Step Guide to Configure SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication with SQL.
I configured all web.config ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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External login issues due to WWW-Authentication
How do i change settings so that external users, with their own Sharepoint sites are prompted to enter credentials for our site. Currently the users are presented with an error messgae stating "your ...
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1answer
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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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How can I pass credentials to SharePoint 2010 people service?
I need to do a simple request against the People service in SharePoint 2010. Please tell me how I can do that. The following piece doesn't work.
public void Test()
{
var client = new ...
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1answer
692 views
AD FS. SPWeb.EnsureUser exception on AD user
We use ADFS and have a problem.
The PeoplePicker find users and show a string such as: "UserDisplayName [Active Directory]".
But the page throws the following error:
...
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1answer
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Windows authentication for an application page without Kerberos?
I'm investigating ways to integrate an existing SQL Server database into my firm's Sharepoint installation. I've put together some external content types, but I'd also like to develop an application ...
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1answer
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Map ADFS Claims to Sharepoint Pofile
i've set up claims based authentication with SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer using ADFS 2.0 as a backend. Within my ADFS 2.0 i've set up rules to send the LDAP Email as Email, LDAP Surname as Surname and ...
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1answer
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Windows Auth and Forms with LDAP provider - merge identity?
I have a need to handle two unique authentication scenarios:
"Off network" - provide a login form (Forms based auth)
"In Network" - traditional windows auth / no form
This is the same user base - ...
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1answer
252 views
Claim auth from ADFS
I asked this question @StackOverflow[1] but maybe this is a better location for it:
I try to connect to a SharePoint Online instance via a WPF-Application (C#). I have found this article[2] that ...
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2answers
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Subsite change automatic logs me out
The situation:
We have 2 subsites: /FR and /EN
When logged in as administrator in /FR, and you change to /EN subsite, the subsite logs me out.
Is this because it's a whole new subsite and the ...
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1answer
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Are the zones tie to particular authentication provider(s)?
Are the zones tie to particular authentication provider(s)? or this is arbitrary?
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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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Zones, AAM, Host Headers,
I am getting really confused as when to use AAM and when to use header. I wish there was table to list scenarios and based on that you would pick AAM or host headers.
Same thing I am trying to ...
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Problem with authentication on subsites (internal/external approach)
This our current situation
1 main-site foo.org and 2 subsites foo.org/FR and foo.org/EN (French and English)
When you'll browse to foo.org, you're redirected directly to foo.org/FR/default.aspx
And ...
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How can I authenticate to BPOS SharePoint using JavaScript
Does anyone know where I can find resources explaining how I can authenticate towards BPOS SharePoint using javascript? I have managed to authenticate with Office365 building on the scripts of lstak, ...
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How to change Authentication in sharepoint server 2010?
how to change Authentication in sharepoint server 2010? By default it takes windows authentication.
After creating website it is possible to change authentication name in website if it possible how ...
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Authentication Type invisible in “Edit Authentication” Window (Central Administration 2010)
I am facing a strange issue in Central Administration. I was trying to change the Authentication Type of a Web Application by following the steps, Central Administration -> Manage Web Application -> ...
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2answers
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All browsers are requiring a login
This is the current situation:
We've setup a SharePoint website with 2 types of users: Visitors and Admins.
The role of a visitor is that they're only able to see the webpages (no document/library ...
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2answers
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Limit login attempts to a SharePoint server to a single OU
The setup:
Several SharePoint 2010 Foundation web applications, each on individual servers.
Default SharePoint authentication mechanism in use
Single Active Directory Domain controls user ...
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2answers
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SharePoint repeatedly prompting iPad users for credentials
We have an internal portal on SharePoint Server 2010. For example portal.abc.com.
We are using Windows authentication (NTLM).
When users access the portal from a joined computer in an Active ...
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SharePoint 2007 : How to sign out user?
I've an application build on SharePoint 2007 platform, the problem is in Mozilla FireFox, the sign out button does not successfully sign out the current login user, I believe SharePoint 2007 is not ...
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Why does Kerberos authentication fail?
Running SharePoint 2010. I need to set up Kerberos authentication, since the double-hop problem with NTLM is causing trouble with a web part I am developing.
Long story short, Kerberos authentication ...
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153 views
FBA and MemberShipProvider
Do we always need to extend web app when using FBA?
I know it seems a silly question, but I can't find a straight answer.
EDIT: SharePoint 2010
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Resources on the authentication cycle of SP2010
I'm trying to find in-depth resources on the authentication cycle.
Things like:
which HTTP requests are done in the process of authentication (mostly with claims based auth)
which events can we ...
