A group is a collection of users either in the Active Directory or in SharePoint.
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SharePoint view in grouping items by the first letter of the Title field
I followed this article and it works fine if the number of items for a letter is less than 30.
But it fails when you have more than 30 items and go back and forth for a group. Say Under "S" you have ...
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SharePoint task assignment email doesn't send to group
Task list has email enabled on task assignment, tasks can be assigned to multiple people or groups. When I create a task and assign it to myself, I get mail. When I update the task to assign it to a ...
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HTML in SPGroup.Description
I am trying to add a group (SPGroup) programmatically. Everything works fine except for one thing. I would like the group's description to include a link to it's site. Similiar to the look-and-feel in ...
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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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Nested AD Groups not propagating permissions
I have a list of AD Groups that are nested within each other and if I assign a permission level to the top leveled group, the individuals don't seem to get the access they need. Here's an idea of how ...
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Send e-mail alerts to distribution groups - Sharepoint 2010
After migration to MSS2010, we realized that the alerts, that we used to send to a distribution group in our company, do not work.
There was an option to create alert for the group (e. g. group_all), ...
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How to hide members of groups from other members within same group
I have not been able to find a way to make this possible yet, but we don't want any members to be able to see who else is in their permission groups.
I've seen the setting for limiting membership ...
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How to find permission level for a SPGroup (2010)?
I have been trying to find how to find what permission level a group (within SPWeb.Groups) has. But it seems like there is no easy way to do this. Any ideas?
I have tried creating SPRoleAssignment ...
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Add an SPGroup to another SPGroup
Is there a way to add a SharePoint group to another SharePoint group? This would work like Active Directory.
IE. I want to put the two child groups into the parent group instead of adding all of the ...
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In MOSS 2007, how to sort a list by a total/aggregate?
I have a basic issue tracking list with a few columns, let's say Application, Title, Created By, and Task Priority.
My list is grouped by Application and I am performing a Total (Average) on Task ...
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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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Domain Groups in SharePoint 2010
We have several domain groups that are not showing up in our SharePoint 2010 environment. The common thread seems to be that domain groups without an e-mail address assigned to the group are the ones ...
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Set permissions on an item depending on column value
Is there anyway to set permissions on an item depending on a column value? I was think about creating a feature to do this but do I have to?
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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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Synchronized AD group won't appear in SharePoint site
I wan't to add three users who are on a new AD on another Domain Name that the one I use habitually, on my test server there no problemes and after I add a connection to the new domain and I launch a ...
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1answer
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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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Export/Import - Users and Groups and Permissions SP 2007
Recently i was asked to migrate an existing 2007 site to a new 2007 site. This involved creating a different structure in the new site as well as bringing across some of the data (lists) from the old ...
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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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1answer
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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 copy People and group from one site to another
I need to copy People and group from one sharepoint site to another. I dont want to backup the entire site.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lav
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can you have multiple visitor groups, all which grant read access to the site?
I am trying to prevent members of a group from being able to see who else is in that group.
So, one idea is to have multiple groups, where each group would grant 'read' access to the site. The 'Set ...
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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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How do I find out what a group has permission to?
I'm cleaning up a farm that has loads of junk groups on it. Is there an easy way to tell if any of these groups have been assigned access to anything? The intention is to delete groups that have ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Is there a good way to email the members of multiple SharePoint groups?
I have a project site and I have split members of the project site into multiple SharePoint groups for security purposes. I would like to be able to send an email to all the members of several groups. ...
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Team Site Owners group is owned by which account?
When a team site is created as the root site of a site collection, it will ask to create the sharepoint groups (owners, members, visitors) in the wizard.
After the site is created, it is observed ...
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cannot add External Domain User To Group
I have a problem about adding a User to Group using a custom code (web part / web services is the same). In my organization I have 2 Active Directory domain (DOMAIN and DOMAINEXT). My Sharepoint farm ...
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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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Is it possible to only allow people in a particular SharePoint group to be selected in a workflow?
Is it possible to set up the Page Approval workflow so that only people in the Approvers group can be selected in the "Assign To" field?
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1answer
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User not showing on People page although listed when using Powershell
I'm using SharePoint 2010 (14.0.4763.1000) and have a user that is not showing on the People page (_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=3). MembershipGroupId=3 is the Owner's Group.
When using ...
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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Permission levels on webs that do not inherit permissions
How does permission levels work when webs do not inherit permissions? I have a site collection with 3 webs:
Root
Subweb
LeafWeb
Each web has unique permissions. I also have a permission level ...
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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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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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Access denied when adding a user to a group RunWithElevatedPrivileges
I am trying to create a site and add users to its group. it creates the site successfully but when I try to add users to groups I get Access denied and no user has been added to groups here is my ...
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Sharepoint group having more than 5000 users in a group
My site contains around two hundred thousand (200,000) users , i am defining the users in sharepoint groups.
But i came through some of the microsoft blogs , it says a sharepoint group can have only ...
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Groups paging is broken
The page that shows all the groups on our SharePoint 2010 site collection is broken. Here's the page:
http://dev95/_layouts/groups.aspx
It should show all the groups, but it only shows the first ...
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How to use AD group in SharePoint 2010
I'm relatively new to SP2010 and wondered about a few Active Directory permission things:
Is it possible to limit access to lists and pages to a specific AD group?
We have a helpdesk area that will ...
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1answer
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Contact List from Sharepoint Group
I am trying to create a contact list which is automatically generated from the users in a SharePoint Permissions Group within SharePoint 2010. Is this possible?
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How to add programmatically “every user” group to a Sharepoint Site
I'm trying to add a group that contains every user on my SharePoint application.
How would I do this?
I tried to get the BUILTIN\users or the NT Authenticated\Authenticated users from the ...
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1answer
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Group owner on SharePoint
When creating groups on SharePoint, how important is it who the owner of the group is? I tried setting the owner to an AD group but it said that was not possible. Can we set one custom group's owner ...
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How do I get the default member and owner SPGroups?
I want to show members and owners in a webpart. My site collection can be created in different languages, so I can't get needed groups like web.Groups["Contoso Members"]. Because it may be "Medlemmar ...
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Why I get “Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation” while looping groups users
Could anyone explain me why when I trying to loop user of a group
foreach (var u in group.Users){....},
I get the error :
Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
I notice that inside ...
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two site collections, but groups only available in the first
I recently created a second site collection 'within' my first/root site collection. i.e.
My primary site collection is found at:
http://mysite.com
and the second one is at:
...
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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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Is there any event reciver available for user group events?
I have to update some list whenever a new user or group is added to the site.
Is there any event receiver available for users/groups?
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Use workflow to remove/add group permissions
I want to use a workflow to remove permissions on a calendar event/list item (with a category RPL) for all groups except group 'B' when the calendar event is created. Here is what i have so far but ...
