A group is a collection of users either in the Active Directory or in SharePoint.
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Collection or list for SPUser and SPGroup objects?
I would like to store in c# code some list or collection or what else to store SPUser and SPGroup objects. After this I would like to do some foreach loop and do some logic.
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Authorization Fails When Using Active Directory Group Membership
I have a test user who is a member of an Active Directory Security Group. I've added that Active Directory group to the a SharePoint Group "[SiteName] Users".
In this scenario, when I attempt to ...
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Get Approvers Group - C#
I'm working on a workflow project, where I have to get all the users in the Approvers group. In order to get the approvals group, I run the following code:
SPGroup approvals = ...
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Creating Groups via Web Service
I am trying to create groups on a SharePoint 2010 site via the UserGroup.asmx web service. I am using jQuery and SPServices to interact with the web service.
When I try to create a group (via the ...
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What would make someone lose site collection admin rights and disappear from all SharePoint Groups at the same time every day?
We have someone who has been a site collection administrator for years and is suddenly losing site collection admin rights at 3PM each day. The person also disappears from all SharePoint Groups that ...
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Add user to a SharePoint group - grant permission - right groups do not show
When I try go grant permission to a user in a new web I don't get listed the cusom groups on the current web.
If you look at the image you can see that the list in the background are quite a bit ...
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The old name of domain group shows up always
We granted permissions to group1 on a site collection. After a while we created a new OU on AD and moved group1 to this OU and renamed the group to group1New. However we still get the old name of the ...
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Workaround for inviting external users to site-level groups in office365
I've got a site collection where each subsite requires their own unique permission groups (Let's call them siteVisitors, siteMembers and siteOwners)
Users in the siteMembers and siteVisitors groups ...
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InofPath Workflow; GroupID, Error Message: Group cannot be found
I have created an InfoPath form workflow in designer. It is a simple workflow which uses the "Collect data from user" task. It requires that the user supply a choice: "Approve" or "Reject", and select ...
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Check “indirect” group membership using .NET Managed Client Object Model
I am trying to establish whether it is possible to determine indirect group membership (i.e. being in an AD group who is in a SharePoint Group) remotely using the .NET Managed API (client side).
The ...
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Cant see the default Approver group in SharePoint site
I am admin to one of my Sharepoint site collection . I have a workflow running on one of the list in my list where my colleague is suppose to approve. If he is busy in his scheduled I should be able ...
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SharePoint groups show no members in UI, but do in powershell?
I have a SharePoint 2010 (SP1 OCT 2012 CU) farm with two web applications. The root site collections of both these web applications have SharePoint groups that are showing no members in the UI. I ...
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Creating Group Programmatically with Reader Role
I am working with SharePoint 2010. I am creating groups in my site through code. There is no issue in that. At the time of creation I provide "Reader" role for my groups. But when I browse the listing ...
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SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup not working when claims authentication is enabled
Method SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup can be used to resolve users that belongs to a AD Group. However, when claims authentication is enabled, this method doesn't work as expected. Is there another ...
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I can add users to the Active users in the portal, but not to People and Groups - Sharepoint 2013 on Office365
I'm using SharePoint 2013 on Office365.
I've added two users in the Admin Portal, both with identical attributes (except name, email address etc.!)
However, when I go onto my site and try to add ...
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Get SPListItems based on contribute permissions, programmatically
I have a problem in getting the list items the current logged user has contribute rights on.
I have this scenario:
List A has read permissions for anonymous access.
Group 1- Has contribute rights ...
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filter by group
I'm trying to set up a calendar on Sharepoint. A calendar item has a people picker to hold who the item is for. I have created groups for each project and have added people to the relevant group. I am ...
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Cannot get the full name or e-mail address of user
I have used following script to add a domain group to a site
[Microsoft.SharePoint.SPUser]$spuser = $web.EnsureUser("WM\My Group name")
Set-SPUser -Identity $spuser -Web "http://myweb" ...
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Getting user's AD groups as lookup
I'm trying to make a simple reservation site, containing two lists: resources and reservations. Users are making reservations by creating a new item on Reservations list, specifying which resource ...
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Add all users to a group when using UserProfileManager?
When I use the UserProfileManager I get all the profiles when using .GetEnumerator() and looping thru them all with foreach($profile in $AllProfiles). After the loop I can get PropertyConstants like ...
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Problems creating Groups in WSS
I'm working on a new Sharepoint site and when I tried to create Groups and I clicked the button "Create" nothing happens. I'm also having some permission issues with the IIS WAMREG admin service. ...
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How to mark a group task as complete if any member of the group completes it?
I created a group in SharePoint of three people who can publish documents. Then I created a workflow that assigns a task to that group when a document needs to be published.
If any of those three ...
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Setting Person field type in a SharePoint Designer Workflow does not work for Groups
I am using an InfoPath form for my document library. Because of issues with InfoPath Person/Group fields mapping to SharePoint person/group fields correctly, I have a workflow that runs on form ...
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Error when sign in as different user: The resource cannot be found. /SitePages/Home.aspx
Create a site collection selecting a site template. Prompted asking whether to use existing groups and gave OK. In the newly created site collection, added new user as member and also in a new user ...
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Problems with Check Permissions form
I have a SharePoint 2010 production environment and I'm experiencing unusual behaviour with the Check Permissions form.
I know that a user has access, but the Check Permissions form is not reporting ...
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Validate InfoPath 2010 People Picker against AD groups within SharePoint groups
I would like to find a code-less way to validate a People Picker selection (limited to a single selection of a user) against whether they are considered to be in a (dynamic) SharePoint group which ...
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SharePoint Group Users AD Group
I am having a SharePoint group SPGroup which is having users from an AD group ADGroup. Now if a user who is not part of ADGroup wants to join in SPGroup, Group Owner or Administrator should not be ...
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Is there a way to restrict or limit the Manage Permissions permission level?
Scenario:
A custom permission level is created that doesn't have as many rights as the Site Owner role (Full Control permission) but, has more rights than a normal Contributor role (Contribute ...
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Concideration about deleting a spweb
If you delete a spweb by going to site Action and click delete this site. the groups of the web still exists under web.SiteGroups. Now I created a EventReceiver to be triggered when you delete a site. ...
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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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Custom claim as group owner
I have a scenario where the SharePoint People Picker is replaced with a custom picker that only ever returns group or person claims backed by our custom Claims Provider. That picker is also used on ...
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List Permission Groups
I am attempting to create a series of Groups. These group will be given access to a Calendar. I do this, so that all users withing that Group will be able to scheduled tasks, in their Sections ...
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Managing groups and invitating users in Sharepoint online
I'm working on a project which relies on having unique groups for each site.
I've experienced some issues when inviting external users to these groups via the "Share this site" feature. Invites fail ...
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best practices for handling groups and external users in sharepoint online
What are your best practices for handling external users in Sharepoint Online?
I'm working on a project which relies on having multiple groups for each site, and I've experienced some issues with ...
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Why does a workflow cancel with “access denied” for all but users with Full Control accesse?
I am working with an existing SharePoint deployment that has a convoluted security structure. After cleaning up permissions a bit, an approval workflow for absence requests is somehow not working for ...
