A group is a collection of users either in the Active Directory or in SharePoint.
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Finding SPGroup list views
When I go to 'people and groups' then select a group I am looking at a list view with a few columns. Is there a way to retreive this view programmatically?
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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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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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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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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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User Accounts Disappearing From SP Groups
We've been running into a bizarre scenario and I'm at a complete loss.
I'm a site collection admin for my division's portal. We're on a shared internal company-wide MOSS server, and I have no access ...
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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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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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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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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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Sharepoint 2010 users strangely removed from Sharepoint Group (Expert Advise required)
Since 3 months client portal was working fine suddenly due to some network problem we restarted SharePoint server, after that some Active directory users complained system was inaccessible, where ...
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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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RoleAssigments are being assigned by default to all new pages
I am pretty new to SharePoint, so please let me know if there is some more info or clarification required. I am creating a webapplication with certain SP groups, libraries and pages in that order by ...
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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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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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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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Add group to Library permissions using powershell
I have written a script that created a document library called "Audit Logs" for every site collection in our environment. I then wanted to ensure that only Site Collection administrators and the ...
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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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Where do SharePoint Groups live?
More specifically, if I have a site collection I can create groups while in the root site. I can also create groups while in the various subsites. But from browsing the available groups in 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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Need to populate a dropdown with sharepoint groups in which am a member
I have some groups in SharePoint application. I have a dropdown in visual webpart which is to be populated with only those SharePoint groups in which am added as user.
Edit: I have added users in ...
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Adding SPGroups to alets using UI
I have a few SPGroups that I wish to send daily alets to but when I go to "Set an alert on this page" and type a group name in the users field it cannot be found. I am sure it exists and has users. ...
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Difference when creating SharePoint 2010 groups programatically and the web interface
When I create a new group using the web interface, I'm able to use web.Groups["name of group"] to find the group.
When I create a group programatically, I use web.SiteGroups.Add("name of group", ...
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How do I add permission to a sharepoint 2010 group that has no access?
When I go to "site permissions" I can see groups that have some permissions and modify their permissions level, but groups without any permissions set do not appear in the list. I can see them in ...
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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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Check SP group permissions in Designer Workflow
Is it possible to check if a particular user is in a Site Group from within a SharePoint Designer Workflow?
For example, if the status column of my list item is set to "Approved", it will kick off a ...
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Deleted SP group can't be recreated
I've deleted a group from a site; now when I try to create the group of the same name, it throws this error:
Error
The specified name is already in use.
Please try again with a new name.
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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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What happens if I assign a task to a sharepoint group, with inside it an AD group
I am using SP2010.
I have a vs workflow and I create a task with some body and title. I assign the task to a sharepoint group. For example SPGroupA. Inside this Sharepoint group I have added a AD ...
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Users gets intermittent access denied?
I have users in domain groups, which we set permission on. Some users get access denied to certain content some of the time, but not all of the time. It's very hard to search for errors in this case. ...
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Permanently add persons to a group calendar view
I tried out the group calendar feature in SP2010 and it works pretty good. My only problem is that every time I load the page with the calendar view, it only adds my current user in the calendar. So I ...
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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 multiple list view depending on pemission for user
Is there a possibility way to make a permission to list view depending on user
groupa can see view1 only
groupb can see view2 only
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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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Show one of the 3 views depandant on current user
I have builded in Visual Studio (c#) a custom list, custom content type and 3 custom views. I am using sp 2010.
The list is working ok and I can see and select the 3 views. It is possible for the end ...
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How to get users/usergroups from an lookup column from SPField
I have a custom list for example "MyCustomListA"
I have created a custom ListForm template and overide the ListFieldIterator. I have overide the ListFieldIterator and CreateChildControls to implement ...
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AD security groups renamed. PeoplePicker in Sharepoint 2010 still shows old values
Sharepoint 2010.
Our IT guys have recently renamed many Active Directory security groups, however PeoplePicker appears to now display both the old name and new name in results. I assume the new name ...
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Add users to SP Group
Is there a way to add bunch of users to a SP Group at once using web service?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms774538(v=office.12).aspx
I have several variables (varApprovers; varTeamLeads; ...
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Remove non full controlled Permission Sharepoint Groups from a SharePoint List using Client Object Model
I have SharePoint List which has stop inheriting from the Parent Sub Site. I need to retrieve the SharePoint Groups which are not been assigned with Full Control on the List. Then need to remove them ...
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Adding a feature to onet.xml to remove the default create SP groups
I've created a SP2010 Web Template based on a publishing site.
I've added a feature receiver which removes all default SharePoint groups (Activated through my onet.xml file). Strangly enough the ...
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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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Adding members to groups i am not a member of
I have a process which runs in a event receiver, this involves adding users from ad to groups based on the contents of a custom list.
The problem occurs when i try to add a user into a group that i ...
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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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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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pickerentity.key with Claims
In a Sharepoint 2010 page, I am using a people picker to pick users or groups, SPgroups as well as Active directory groups. I am then retrieving every item that was picked as a PickerEntity.Key which ...
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How to find permission level date(Last Modifed or Created) for a user and group?
How to find permission level date(Last Modifed or Created) which applying permission level for a user and group?
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SharePoint group in Person/Group Picker
I want to send an email from a reusable workflow to everybody in a SharePoint group. I created a test group from the site permissions and created a reusable workflow. In this workflow I added a ...
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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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Sharepoint 2013 users which are programmatically added using Client Object Model still has no permission
I have a problem with user permission of users which are programmatically added to Sharepoint 2013 group using Client Object Model. The web application allows anonymous, but I also have a document ...
