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How is the user information list populated?
When you add a user with direct permissions somewhere within a site but they haven't yet visited SharePoint - will the user be added into the user information list automatically or only once they ...
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All possible places to receive permissions from
I'm trying to find out why a certain user appears to have full control on a site.
Using Check Permissions, I can see that the only permissions they are given directly on the site are Read permissions, ...
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Get SharePoint Group Permissions Via PowerShell
I am looking for a PowerShell command to get the permissions of a SharePoint group on a securable object.
I have googled for a while but without success.
I am aware of the ...
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“User cannot be found.” error in Powershell
I am writing a PowerShell script to re-sync my users to the AD because of a problem I have described Here. From time to time I get a "Set-SPUser : user cannot be found." error but when I call the same ...
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How do i “Refresh” each site collection's permissions?
My network admin have deactivated a lot of users from the Active Directory, and recreated them using the same username but with a different OU,
Now the SP 2010 does not recognize these users or their ...
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Contribute without delete permission level and Connect to Outlook
I know that I can create Contribute without delete permission level.
Now suppose I create a discussion board and give users this permission level. When they connect this list to Outlook, they are ...
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SharePoint Permissions not working
I am using SharePoint 2010.
When I set permissions (I Only grand myself access) on a document library or folder or document EVERYONE can still see it and download the documents. Why is that? What is ...
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Setting permissions on folder not working
I am using SharePoint 2010.
I set permissions on my folder but yet everyone can still see and access the documents in the folder. What is going on here?
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How to successfully implement “Auto-accept requests?”
Caution: If you select yes for the Auto-accept requests option, any user requesting access to this group will automatically be added as a member of the group and receive the permission levels ...
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Word Documents in Library Erroring and Unable to Overwrite
I have a document library and a number of times I have experienced an issue where, upon trying to open a document in Word for editing, it throws an error
The file filename.docx cannot be opened ...
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How to display list item attachment to a user without permissions on the list
I have sharepoint list/library. Only admin user has permission on this list. Now i want to display attachment to all authenticated user in my custom web part. How can i achieve this functionality.? ...
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Denying the manage rights permission
I'm trying to fullfill a requirement which forces the use of Active Directory groups. I'm having issues getting to where I want to be.
Upon creation of a new site, I'm going to use AD groups to ...
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“Add Document” link is disappear when Permission to only SPFolder
I have given SPUser user1 permission to only SPFolder I dont want to give read access to specific site or document library.
suppose there is one web http://contoso.com/sales and i want to give ...
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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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Is it safe to remove SharePoint\system SPUser from a custom sharepoint user group?
is it safe to remove SPUser "SharePoint\system" from a custom SharePoint user group?
<User ID="1073741823" Sid="S-1-0-0" Name="System Account" LoginName="SHAREPOINT\system" Email="" Notes="" ...
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Permissions changes repeatedly and randomly revoked
Until recently all users had access to some surveys in one of my sites. Suddenly their rights were revoked. I assumed someone had removed them accidentally (an issue for another time), so I added them ...
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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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User with Full Control Permission is getting Access Denied Message
The user who's responsibility it is to build up and maintain our training portal is receiving the "Access Denied" message when she tries to edit her page.
Her permission level is "Full Control".
I ...
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Can these permission requirements be met with audiences?
permission requirements:
Users from several regional departments fill out one complex InfoPath form.
Every user can only edit his own form instance, but he can authorize others by adding Names in ...
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Users not assigned for a task in “Collect User Data” action in SP2010 can complete the assignee's task
This has been bugging me for weeks wherein the task assigned to a specific user which was issued by a workflow through the action "Collect User Data from a user" in SPD2010 can just be completed by ...
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Remove manage content and structure for a sharepoint 2010 group
I have a group that needs to be able to submit forms, and add data. However they need to not be able to see the "manage content and structure" link under "site actions". I have found a couple ...
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By pass site levels of Site Hierachy possible? I'm a complete noob at sharepoint
Is it possible to bypass a level in the site tree structure and make it show up in the top nav bar by default? Or is it possible to make a dropdown containing the sites a person is allowed to access?
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My permissions have changed - again!
Three colleagues and myself have Full Control of our top level site. I don't often log into our site, however, a week ago I did and noticed I no longer had rights, however, my colleagues' rights were ...
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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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Powershell to check usage of a custom Permission Level
As the title says I need to find/write a Powershell script that will look through all of my Site Collection to see where a specific (custom) Permissions Level is being used.
All the articles I have ...
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Content DB not getting any permissions on web application created through central admin
I tried to create a Web Application using Central Admin. It created web app without displaying any error, I can browse site too after creating site collection and that, but content db got no ...
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Update user permissions in list
I have a list which has individual permissions set on each item. Yesterday, a cockup occurred where a number of these items had their permissions erased.
Rather than clicking each one individually, ...
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How can I change Document library permissions for all site collections using powershell?
Total Powershell newbie here, but I have managed to write a couple scripts so far that have been working.
We are using 2010 Enterprise edition, and I have been tasked with creating a script that will ...
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SPPageStatusSetter failing in SP modals, for some users
We're putting status messages on a page using the SPPageStatusSetter API (on the server end). This works absolutely fine until we open any pages inside an SP Modal.
For users in the App Owners group, ...
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SharePoint timer service for backup/restore
for performing backups, SharePoint timer service should have read/write permission. How i check if SharePoint timer service have read/write permission?
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Find all workflows with a certain permission setting
I have a workflow which just got broken by a network administrator changing some active directory settings for a certain group. I was able to fix the workflow once the problem had been found but there ...
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Show asp.net webpart elements based on user permission level?
I want to do the following:
I have a webpart and two users (not in groups, though, because for a reason I don't understand there are no groups in the productive environment here ;) ).
One stands ...
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Maintaining role groups and users in two farms simultaneously?
We currently have two farms - a SharePoint 2007 one and a SharePoint 2010 one. We have the same groups in both farms and the same userbase.
At the moment when someone joins or leaves the company ...
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Duplicate user's permissions across farm in SP2010
I have just taken over as developer of a Sharepoint farm with multiple site collections. I keep having to assign myself the relevant permissions that my predecessor had across various areas.
Is there ...
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Run Publishing.Administration - method as a Farm Admin
I need to call a method from publishing.administration-Namespace as a farm admin. To be specific: ContentDeploymentJob.GetAllJobs();
When I try to run that code I get the exception that the code can ...
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How to remove sharepoint security group in the feature?
I want to remove custom security group from sharepoint 2010. I created custom security group as follows:
SPGroup wcmGroup = currentWeb.SiteGroups[permissionName];
SPRoleDefinition ...
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Reply permissions for a Discussion Board in a Site with Read permissions
I currently have a site where all SharePoint groups have Read permissions. However, there is one special group called Discussion Participants that should be able to post and reply to one specific ...
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Transfer user permissions
I have a SPListItem for which I need to transfer all directly given permissions from Alice to Bob. It sounds like a common scenario, but still I was not able to find a solution (except third party ...
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Users with “Contribute” access cannot edit document attached to a SharePoint 2010 Discussion Board post
Users on my 2010 site can't edit a document attached to a discussion board post even though they have "Contribute" access. Users with "Full Control" can, of course, but users with Contribute cannot.
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Can I give access to a user who is NOT a member of a user group?
Is it possible to give access to a user who is a member of one group but NOT a member of another group?
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In other words, if they belong to a certain group, I need to deny them access. I want ...
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Set Specific list view for user
Hey i need to set a specific list view for certain users. They need to be able to view the list with a set view that they cannot change, and still be able to modify the list items.
HELP !
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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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Allow document “Move” but prevent deletion
one of our customers sent us a requirement where their users must be able to "Upload/Add" documents, but can't delete those or any other documents. However, at the same time, the user must be able to ...
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Assets and Facilities list item permission
I have Calendar im using it as meetings rooms calendar, this calendar uses the default resources list (Assets and facilities) as rooms source, I want to set permission per item so only specific user ...
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Check if user, of an ADGroup, belongs to specific RoleAssignment
Best way to check if an user (not the current user), inserted in a ADGroup, belongs, or not, to SPList/SPWeb RoleAssignments?
Impersonate an use the .ContainsCurrentUser method, brings access denied ...
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How to set different start page for each user group?
I have two different user groups in my Sharepoint 2010 site and start page is default.aspx. I want to show nothing or another page for only one user group as start page. How can I solve this? Is it ...
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PowerShell System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException on Line 1 - Permissions?
I've adapted a PowerShell script from Harry Chen's "SharePoint Connoisseur" blog to solve the broken Navigation Up issue he describes. My code is slightly modified, but only to reduce the data ...
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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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What permissions are required to access SPSite.Usage?
I am using the SPSite.Usage property in the object model to get statistics on the size of a site collection in SharePoint 2010. With my own user account being a farm administrator, site collection ...
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Inheritance Sharepoint 2010
I had full control to a sub-site and removed the inheritance from the parent site by mistake. Our Sharepoint Administrator does not know how to do this. She was able to get to the parent and re-add ...
