Validation the identity of the user, usually with username and password authentication.
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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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Same public URL on two zones?
I have a default and an extended "Extranet" zone on one of my web application.
I would like to assign a single URL "https://Name.myDomain.com" to both zones.
Additionally I also want to be able to ...
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Puzzling security issue with SharePoint 2010 Central Admin authentication on Windows 7
I have a really odd issue with SharePoint 2010 central admin on Windows 7 (x64 if that matters).
Somehow when I go to Central Admin and hit any of the _admin links I get a password prompt. I looked ...
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How do I pass the SharePoint username to another site for Single Sign-On?
We would like to have users sign into an internal SharePoint site, then be able to click on a link that takes them to a vendor's site. However, we want to pass the username, first and last names, and ...
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SharePoint 2010 and OWA web parts authentication
I have SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and Exchange server 2010 SP1 installed.
I added "My Inbox" web part for each user in his "my site". The problem is when the user is opening the page; the login window ...
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Windows authentication with SharePoint Web Services via SOAP
I am building an application on a different server, than that of the SharePoint 2010 foundation. But I want to be able to update some information / data in SharePoint Lists using Web Services.
I am ...
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Can only see 'System Account' as the current user instead of domain account
When I navigate to sites on my local Windows 7 workstation with SharePoint 2010 installed I see 'System Account'. I would like to see my domain account as the user.
When I try to login to SharePoint ...
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Does SSL work with NTLM authentication?
Does SSL work with NTLM authentication? or should I go SSL with Kerberos?
I am setting up an extranet farm and I need to use SSl. I have seen blogs that talk about SSL and Kereberos together. Can I ...
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Authenticate Sharepoint users using digital certificates
We have internet facing Sharepoint 2007?
We have recently distributed digital certificates to our users, mainly for authentication purposes.
We would like to enable users to authenticate to MOSS ...
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1answer
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Web service authentication with multiple authentication types
I am trying to pull data from the list.asmx web service from a console application. I am using clams based authentication, and whenever only integrated Windows Authentiation is checked everything ...
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3answers
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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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1answer
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ADFS, people picker and custom claims provider
I read article of Steve Peshka here which points that we have to develop custom claims provider in order to override pepole searching using people picker in SP2010.
I have two questions regarding ...
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Methods of sharing authentication between SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET applications?
We're evaluating ways of sharing authentication (to achieve an SSO effect or actual SSO) with SharePoint 2010 and several ASP.NET applications.
The options I've seen so far are to configure ...
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1answer
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Create a sharepoint registration page for external users
I want to make a sharepoint site where everyone has access to the login page. On the login page, there should be a link to a registration page where new users can register. The emailadress provided ...
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1answer
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Remote authentication with SharePoint Online
I am following the article and sample that can be found in this address: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh147177.aspx
Everything works fine but I need a more automated solution. The user ...
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Accessing SharePoint's Web Services from iOS
I got an email through my blog the other day which asked an interesting question. My reply bounced back, so I figured I'd post it on my blog as well as in the SPServices Discussions (where a question ...
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1answer
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SPWeb.CurrentUser gives wrong result when called from HttpModule
I am trying to get the current logged-in SharePoint username through SPWeb.CurrentUser. This usually provides the results I am expecting, except in one instance.
I am logged into my development ...
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1answer
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WebClient and impersonate as other user
I created a web service hosted in SharePoint 2010 and I want to unit test its behaviour/results.
Now when I try to run a test with a different user, I always get the results of the previous user and ...
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2answers
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Force users to log in to our sharepoint intranetsite
We have a SharePoint intranet site and would like to force our users to log in. The site is setup with windows authentication, but the users are logged in automatically when they navigate to our site. ...
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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
360 views
How to authenticate a user in SharePoint server side object model?
I am developing an Asp.Net web application that will access data in a list on a SharePoint 2010 server. Can anyone tell me how do I authenticate a user against SharePoint using the server side object ...
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1answer
902 views
How do switch a SharePoint farm from NTLM to Kerberos
How do you switch a SharePoint farm / site collection from NTLM to Kerberos?
It seems that there more to it than selecting Kerberos in:
Central Administration > Application Management > ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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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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Using SharePoint via Office Hub on Windows Phone 7
What settings are required to connect to SharePoint via the Office Hub on Windows Phone 7? I've heard so many contradictory things that I have no idea what it takes. Is it using claims auth? classic ...
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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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FBA Authentication with Custom Database
I want to implement forms based authentication for a sharepoint portal. I have used the standard ASP.NET membership provider database for test purpose and it work fine.
My client has Authentication ...
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2answers
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Authenticating users from another domain
I need to setup SharePoint so that some users from some other domain can log in to SharePoint. I think this is something to do with domain trusts but I don't have any idea how / where to start. Can ...
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SharePoint 2010 Authentication Prompt
I upgraded SharePoint to 2010 Enterprise from MOSS 2007. Now, whenever a normal user goes to one of the pages, they get prompted for authentication. If they keep hitting cancel, it will let them ...
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How to set anonymous user as a specific user
I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I am wondering whether SharePoint has any means to set an anonymous ...
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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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1answer
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Can I give a Super User the ability to impersonate someone else?
We currently have a situation where we need the ability to fully impersonate a login on a SharePoint Web Application. Effectively any "SuperUser" needs the ability to, without a password, proxy login ...
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1answer
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Combination of anonymous and windows authentication on sharepoint 2007 web
is it possible to enable anonymous access only for a specific library? The script library should have an anonymous access whereus the page library should use the windows authentication.
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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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1answer
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Enabling Basic Authentication For A Specific SharePoint Instance
My web host claims that he is unable to meet our company's request of enabling Basic Authentication for our hosted SharePoint site. While I understand that we can use NTLM, we are hoping for a ...
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1answer
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Powershell to set a Web Application's Trusted Identity Provider to an STS and NTLM?
I've created a custom STS and have setup trust with SharePoint via New-SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. I can use Central Admin to configure a Web Application to use both NTLM and the STS, however I ...
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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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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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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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Remote authentication
How can I authenticate SharePoint users programmatically from a computer which is not a member of the domain where SharePoint server exists? SharePoint uses Windows auth only, not forms auth.
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Claims-based or classic authentication mode - how to figure out in a given SharePoint 2010 installation?
How do I figure out whether a web application in my SharePoint 2010 farm is using claims-based or classic authentication mode? I know that authentication provider (default zone) is Windows, but ...
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1answer
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Log in all anonymous users as one authenticated user?
I would like to catch anonymous users on our SharePoint 2010 site and automatically log them in as a single specific user. Any ideas?
I can currently intercept the Application_AuthenticateRequest ...
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3answers
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Authenticate user before getting a SPUserToken object
I know that a user can be impersonated by using an SPUserToken object when constructing an SPSite.
I need to authenticate the user before getting a token for the user as I am developing an ...
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2answers
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Lots of 401 status codes in IIS logs using Windows authentication
I'm seeing a lot of 401s in the IIS status logs. I know this is normal for windows authentication, but it seems like the authentication should be cached.
For example, a user will get a 401 when ...
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1answer
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SharePoint 2010 Claims
I've got a SharePoint portal configured to use Claims based authentication. I'm able to login using this, but each time I click a link within the portal, I'm redirected to the logon page. Any clues?
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Failed to apply web.config mods through central admin
Something serious has happened. I’m trying to set the authentication provider for a newly created web site (Application Management -> Authentication Providers). I try to set it to either Forms or ...
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SSO authentication integration issue
I am using SharePoint 2007 Enterprise + Publishing portal template + Windows Server 2008. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I need to implement SSO (Single Sign On feature) with another ...
