Questions tagged [domain]

A domain name (for instance, "contoso.com") is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet or a local network.

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How to change site URL on SharePoint 2019 server

Currently, my SharePoint URL is like http://servername/sites/xxx, is it possible to change the URL to another one? like http://mycompanyname/sites/xxx, so that users cannot see the actual server name....
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How can I transfer an office 365 domain to a different tenant keeping the users' OneDrive files?

I registered [email protected] with office 365 and registered the custom domain mydomain.com. After doing this, I noticed that several users with the same domain had previously registered, thus ...
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How can redirect a custom domain to sharepoint online?

I would like to redirect a custom domain https://whatever.com to https://whatever.sharepoint.com (SPO), but after add an CNAME entry I got the following error: Our services aren't available right now. ...
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How do I change the default sharepoint domain name?

My current sharepoint domain name is in the following format: apple571.sharepoint.com. In my office 365 admin center, I have already gone to Settings > Domains to change the default domain from ...
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Is it possible to rename or define a new name for our office 365 domain

Currently we have our domain for example as abcde.onmicrosoft.com and then we bought abcde.com from godaggy so users emails does not have to have the onmicrosoft inside it, as follow:- Now our ...
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What is the purpose of adding additional domain/s to our Office 365 tenant domains?

Inside our Office 365 tenant's Domains page >> we have the option to add additional domains beside the default domain as follow: So what is the purpose of this step? will our Office 365 tenant ...
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What are the steps needed to change our Office 365 domain name

We have a newly added Office 365 tenant, and we chose a domain name as follow: We added users to the tenant + 15 SharePoint sites + 10 Yammer communities. But we need to change our Office 365 tenant'...
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SharePoint 2016 On-Premise multi server farm migration from one domain to another

We are planning to migrate from one domain ABC to XYZ for our SharePoint 2016 farm which has 3 app servers and 4 web servers, what is the approach and steps that I need to follow for this. any ...
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If we define a deny domain list inside the company wide setting, then can we define an allow list inside the site collection which overcome it?

I am reading this article inside Microsoft Docs: Restrict sharing of SharePoint and OneDrive content by domain and I know that if I define an Allow list inside the company wide settings then I can ...
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There is a user appearing twice when a document is shared in SharePoint 2016

I was not able to replicate this problem but this is what two users are reporting. When they go to [Share] a document/file uploaded in SharePoint 2016 Document Library, within the Share section they ...
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Sharepoint list field 'Created by' shows username

I created a workflow that every form that is submitted gets recorded in sharepoint list. The flow works perfectly, but the 'created by' field does not show the user name of the person who submitted ...
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SPUtility.SendEmail returns false for external users (different domain)

I have used SPUtility.SendEmail to send email to users programmatically and it works. However if the user's email is different than the outgoing email domain it returns false. How do I make it work ...
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Restricting to single domain users in People picker in SharePoint 2013

My organization has 2 domains. DomainA and DomainB are 2 separate forests with mutual trust. When I use the SharePoint people picker the auto-complete displays user profiles from both domains. I’m ...
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Find Which Domain Controller SharePoint Is Using With PowerShell

Our on-premises SharePoint 2013 and 2010 Farms are using autodiscovery for the domain controller user profile sync. Is there a way using PowerShell to find out which DC SharePoint is actually using?
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How to Check Current User Exists in AD Group using Rest Api

We have a SharePoint 2013 On premise environments and having the Domain Groups with the Names contains SPECIAL characters as (Role)x$Customer$2838. Using the below rest call i am able to get all the ...
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Cannot access any SharePoint sites and Central Administration

I am running SharePoint Server 2016 on two separate servers: one application server and one database server. I have created a number of sites in a site-collection. Recently today, I am not able to ...
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Can the URL of Sharepoint be changed?

I'm just curious if there is a way of changing the URL from: http://example.sharepoint.com/sites/Intranet to http://intranet.example.com? Thank you.
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People picker does not find users in other domain with two-way trusted connection

Our customer has two domains with two-way trusted connection between them. On one of them they have a SharePoint farm. The problem is people pickers only find users that exist in the domain which has ...
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Workflow task assigned to user in wrong domain

I'm currently tasked with upgrading an app that has two domains, from 2010 to 2016 SharePoint. One of the problems that was present in 2010 version is that when user is present in both domain X and Y, ...
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SharePoint Intranet - DNS pointing here?

Background: We are currently using a very old intranet that is hosted on one of our internal servers. I've designed a SharePoint Online intranet that looks a lot better, plus it'll feature a lot more ...
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Can i use a domain name on a subsite?

Background: Our company is using SharePoint. We have now created a subsite which is related to a club. The club just bought a domain name, and we want to promote the domian name, so that people go ...
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Filter domain in people picker for SharePoint 2010 trusted domain

Our customer is using 3 domains in two way trusted mode. We are supporting applications on SharePoint 2010 Foundation. We are facing duplicate user account issue as a few users are present in two ...
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2 domains 1 adfs

I have a SharePoint Farm on Domain A And a ADFS Server on Domain B I have to enable adfs authenticaton on A, and to make it work with B. So far, I have been able to do so, but now I have an error ...
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SharePoint authentication after demoting a domain controller

I have an issue in regards to a domain controller being demoted. SharePoint is not installed on this DC. When the dc is demoted in sites and services for AD SP has kittens and can't auth at all. ...
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Get Domain Group id using REST API in SharePoint

We have a SharePoint 2013 On premise environments and having the Domain Groups with the Names contains SPECIAL characters as below. I want get the Domain Group Id and assign READ permission using ...
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SharePoint Hosted App not working. App domain issues

I followed this link to configure the app domain for SharePoint 2013. While configuring the DNS we followed below steps:  First created zone: owapps.com Alias Name: * FQDN: *.owapps.com FQDN for ...
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Which is the valid email address for our sharepoint team site's group; the one which have "onmicrosoft" in it or the one which does not have it

I have created a new sharepoint team site as follow:- and i got an office 365 group created for me. now i am getting 2 different email addresses for my office 365 group and team site, as follow:- ...
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Risk difference setting up subdomain or new domain?

I have a single server Sharepoint Foundation 2013 instance that I've recently setup for my organization. I'm still pretty new to Sharepoint. I've been tasked with setting it up to allow apps, and ...
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SharePoint Server broken membership with DC and doesnt have a local admin password. What to be done?

In one of our QA farms, we restored the old VM snaps and one of the server couldn't able to connect to the FARM due to the broken membership with DC and we unfortunately dont have the local admin ...
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Domain Migration - SharePoint Online User Permissions Migration

We are migrating users from one internal domain to another within our AD Forest. We can use Move-SPUser in SharePoint 2013 upwards and $farm.MigrateUserAccount( $.oldlogin, $.newlogin, $false ) for ...
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How to see the Domain Group's members?

There are two types of groups. They called Domain or Sharepoint groups. I cannot see the member's of Domain Groups. How can i do this ?
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Some pages in SharePoint not accessible with FQDN

My customer's network is designed to enforce business users to only access web applications with FQDN. Business users can only access SharePoint site with FQDN example: http://abc-intranet.abc.local ...
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Copying userAccount from One AD Domain to another Domain

Is it possible to copy userAccount from One AD Domain e.g, DomainA\User to another Domain e.g, DomainB\User in sharepoint 2007? Is it possible with powershell? And is the copy operation will also copy ...
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SharePoint Online domain - using my own

I have a person/custom domain that I'd like to use instead of the dumbnameichose.OnMicrosoft.com domain that it gave me. The video they provided to do this seems to suggest that I might be moving some ...
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Reliable way to get user domain from SPUser

I feel a bit silly that I can't think of a reliable way to get this information. Most SPUsers, but not all, now have claims LoginNames. This makes parsing the domain name a little bit tricky. Is ...
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SharePoint 2013 with Calendar email?

I have connected a simple Calendar in SharePoint 2013 with my Outlook, however, I would like for it to accept incoming email and automatically accept meeting invitations to display on the SharePoint ...
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Can't login to VM SharePoint 2016 from the network

I set up a virtual demo environment for a single SharePoint 2016 farm. I followed the steps on this open guide: https://github.com/CriticalPathTraining/SharePoint2016VmSetupGuide What it's achieved ...
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WSS server locking domain admin account

One of our domain admin accounts continues to be locked out on the hour every hour by our Sharepoint 2010 server. I have looked in the list of managed accounts and service accounts and this ...
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Automatically synchronize a SharePoint site to all computers in a domain

Is it in any way possible to setup a SharePoint site to synchronize to a local folder automatically for all computers in a domain (for example via GPO/registry settings/...)? I am asking so that ...
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Can we both upgrade to SharePoint 2013 from 2010 and move domain at the same time?

We have 2 tasks to do and I am looking for some advice. We need to upgrade from 2010 to 2013 and we need to move the farm to a new domain. I was thinking of doing the upgrade first and then the ...
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SharePoint Migration - Company aquisition - Domain changed

Company A has bought company B. Company B SharePoint(2010) data has to be migrated to company A. Now company A is recreating all company B users in their domain. When we migrate SharePoint content 1....
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Discovering SharePoint Server in a domain

Is it possible to find a SharePoint server machine in a domain?
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Change name of domain - what about SharePoint

How would SharePoint react to a change of domain name? Only domain name, the rest is the same? I use SharePoint 2013.
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Invitation email when granting permissions in SharePoint 2013 is not sent

When I grant permissions to some user under the same domain than I am. They do not recieve email even if I check "send invitation" SMTP configuration is set. All the other notifications are working ...
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Change URL's address of SharePoint Online

I try to change the URL address from https://company.sharepoint.com - I using SharePoint Online (Office 365). Can Microsoft change this address? Or can I create address/record in my private domain, ...
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Filter [ME] is not working after migration from Domain A to Domain B. Working for user with entry in Only Domain B

I am the primary site collection administrator on my SharePoint 2013 environment. I have a task list with a filter view: "assigned to = [me]". My own tasks show fine when I am logged in. However ...
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SharePoint 2013 using deleted app domain

I followed this tutorial Configure an Environment for Apps for SharePoint 2013 to create an app domain called mytestapps.com but later decided that's not a good name and I deleted the domain Zone and ...
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How to move sharepoint 2013 from one AD to another

I have a sharepoint 2013 foundation server on solution 1 which is being replaced. The sharepoint DB is around 12Gb in size. I need to ship this db to a new sharepoint server in a new domain on ...
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Disabling old domain users from Person Picker

I have SharePoint 2013 eviorment, There are 2 types of domain users in SharePoint, lets say, that they are old.contoso.com that are old domain users and contoso.com that are new domain users. ...
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Audience rules depending on user domain

I have 4 different domains in my office 365: @uno.com @dos.com @tres.com @cuatro.com I want to create an audience for each domain and create a rule that makes that possible. Every user that has @...