Assignment of security to content.
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Contribute permissions for specific parts of a site
We're assessing SharePoint to use for our intranet site.
I want specific groups of users to be able to edit some hierarchies of content but not others. For example, HR contributors should be able to ...
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Sharepoint 2010 > Central Admin > Create special permission
I have a business unit "Marketing" and they would like access to Central Admin Search Area.
Is it a good thing to share Central Admin with business unit?
Could I create a special permission that ...
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Specific Access to Files within Document Library
My company is trying to develop a solution within Sharepoint for sharing documents across similar departments of different companies.
The requirement is that there is a store of documents that each ...
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Column Level Security Products
I am looking for recommendations on products that handle column level security. What is the best product out there? Any input will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Iterate Site Collection Administrators across web app
How can I find out all the sites where the user is a primary site collection administrator or a secondary site collection administrator.
We have around 200+ site collections and growing and hence ...
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Active directory distribution group and user permission?
We have two active directory security groups(internal) added into the sharepoint members group explicitly. GroupB is a subgroup of GroupA, when I search a user permission (went to the member group and ...
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How can I set permissions for a users group to see only one page?
Is it possible to set permissions for a users group to see only one page?
Can it be done via Site settings or is this a programmable task?
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Change group permission level
How can I change a group permission level? In Site > Site Settings > My group I can see all the members. Add and remove members is possible. In Settings > Show Group's authorization I can see ...
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How to detect limited access role type in SPRoleDefinition?
I need to know how to detect the limited access role, when looping through role definitions for a list item.
Item in code below is a listitem, using object model (c#).
Code so far is:
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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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Adding list item when user does not have permissions question
I am trying to programmatically add a list item to a SharePoint list. The code works fine when executed by a user with contribute permissions, but does not work when a user has view only. Funny thing ...
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Uploaded document “modified by” incorrect user
I'm working with a program that uploads to site folders, using C# and WSS3, and I am trying to ensure that it works correctly with Sharepoint permissions.
In my test program for the Frontpage RPC ...
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2010 Permissions Issue for External Facing Site?: some can access, some can't
Our company houses external-facing collaboration sites for our third party users. We recently 3-4 months ago, updated to SharePoint 2010 and since then have had some issues with our external users not ...
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Permissions ignored for team site within personal site
This is SP 2010. I have a personal site (i.e. my personal site with My Host Site), and in that site I have created a Team site. In that team site, I have removed all permissions except for myself ...
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All sites are read only, even for site administrators
Every site in the collection is now read-only. I can still change settings in the central admin site but am unsure what has changed.
This affects everyone, users with write permission, even site ...
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Permissions for users to send alerts to multiple users
We have a number of subsites (off a main site) which are project based. The project managers would like the ability to create alerts for their teams on specific items, such as Team Discussion and ...
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3answers
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User permissions to run custom code from Document Library
I have a user that doesn't have permissions to a site (Limited Access) but have Full Control permission on one of the Document libraries within this site.
Now if the user tries to run my custom code ...
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ItemAdding event and impersonation
I need to modifiy the Editor/Author (modified by/created by) SharePoint built-in fields in an ItemAdding Event Receiver on a list (I cannot use the ItemAdded event).
For users with restricted ...
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How to find who delete list permissions?
Hello I'm a newbie SharePoint developer.
Someone delete a list permission groups and there is no backup.
There is no documents about this permission settings. We are really under frustrated ...
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Re-assign “Created by” for list item
I have a SharePoint list whose items are created by members of a group of ~700 people. The content of these list items needs to evolve over time but we need to limit edit privileges so that only ...
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How can I visualize permissions to my users on our intranet?
There have been quite a few people in my organization who have expressed confusion about who has access to what.
This is also making them reluctant to use SharePoint. Because this isn't clear to them.
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How can I know when user changes permission for an item?
Is there any event when user changes item's permission ? I tried to catch SPListItemUpdating event for a necessary list, but it didn't work. Or can I attach to Permission list to handle ...
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Can sharepoint enforce section level authorizations in an uploaded office document?
Take for e.g. an excel document. There may be a set of rows in the excel assigned to a person/team to work on. Only that person or team is authorized to edit those rows in the excel sheet.
Does ...
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How to handle Multiple ACL on List Item without performance starve
I'm facing a problem with some items in my List. I want to have an Huge document Library (thousands of files in folders + GB of files) and I want to have different permissions on the files.
I want ...
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Danger to allowing sub sites to manage their own permission levels?
Is there any danger into letting a sub site manage their own permission levels? For example, a sub site that will be by itself and used by a separate group that will need to create custom permission ...
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Limited Access entries are noise
My farm admin encourages us collection admins to use permission inheritance. However, we have hundreds of Limited Access entries on the top level site, all of whom I assume possess a custom permission ...
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Permissions error setting up SharePoint 2010 PowerShell account privileges
SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Std SP1 (Domain Controller) in a simple farm with a single SQL Server 2008 SP1/Windows Server 2008 Std SP2 backend
I realise installing SP on ...
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How can I create an upload-only folder in a document library?
Our HR department wants users to download a form that requires a signature. They would like users to be able to scan those forms once completed and upload them to a folder.
These forms contain ...
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SharePoint 2007: Site owner can add/delete content query web part but cannot modify it
This is a hair pulling defect that I cant figure out.
Out intranet has an extended content query web part that is widely used. After our last deployment site owners were unable to modify these web ...
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Stop users from editing and deleting data on list
For a new SharePoint application we're constructing, we have a requirement which says a user may enter data in a list, but may not edit or delete the data.
So I thought of creating a list (probably ...
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get Site Permission for a web
I got the following code working but it does not give me Roles and Groups. Is the syntax I am using good?
$webUrl = "http://IVR.cisco.com/Sites/Research/VB3343"
$web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl
foreach ...
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Two members of a group can't view list items in sharepoint 2010
I created a list on a top-level site. The list inherits permissions from the site. All members of the group share the same contribute-level permission. I have checked all views and all list items, and ...
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Permissions on Content Types?
I am using sharepoint 2010 and made my own content type that inherits from the page content type. This content type is in a folder called "content types"
I am having a weird problem where if the user ...
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connect disscussion board to outlook
I created a share point discussion board list. Later I attached the list for outlook.
I gave some user authorization of contribute.
And at this time the user can advertise his announcements in the ...
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Can I add a user to a SharePoint Group in a workflow
We need to have a list where contributors request new users to be added to a site. The site owner then needs to approve this request on the list (the users wnat to see the progress of their request as ...
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How to place security on a document library such that users only see documents they created?
When using lists, it is easy to specify that users can only see lists that they created (through Advanced Settings).
Is there a similar way to do this with document libraries? Rather than doing item ...
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How do I exclude list items created by certain users with the Content Query Web Part?
I have a custom list created in SharePoint 2007 and displayed by a Content Query Web Part.
I would like to:
Show all items to general admin users except those items created by two users.
The two ...
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How to authorise someone just for creating Surveys?
I have a simple intranet portal which we now want to gradually expand to make use of surveys, blogs etc.
I want to authorise a small group of people to be able to create surveys but not to be able to ...
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Prevent Access to Custom Web Application Pages by Non-Admin Users
I have a custom web application that integrates with a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) solution. I would like to add role-based access to pages in this custom web application, with only users in a specified ...
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Running code that creates a TimerJobDefinition outside of Central Admin
I have run into a problem several times now where I have developed a custom timer job, and I want my site collection administrators to manage the schedule of this job with a custom application page ...
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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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Full control user can add Page Layout to top level site but not the sublevel site
Has anyone seen the problem that we can add page layout to the top level site but not the sublevel site?
I've got the following behaviors:
In the "Site Settings" the "Master pages and page ...
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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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How to provide read-only access to a subset of library documents?
Let's say we have a library of Dept docs with R/W access for Dept members.
- Some of the Dept docs need to be shared but not all, only that are "ready" to be shared as READONLY to Dept Visitors.
- ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Permission level Full Control and explicit deny
I am facing a very frustating permission level issue with Sharepoint 2010.
First, everything worked as expected up to few days ago.
I have a user on my sharepoint 2010 env (publishing portal) named ...
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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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SharePoint 2007 Trim Permissions
Looked through a number of threads as well as searched the web for an answer without much luck.
We currently allow users to request a work site and then when we create their site, we add them to a ...
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1answer
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Weird error when creating a site collection from a Claims authentication WCF service
I'm having trouble adding a new site collection, from a service hosted in a claims enabled SharePoint web application. The authentication works just fine (I can confirm the identity of the user while ...
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How to view what a user has access to with PowerShell?
A user has limited access but I don't know what for. How can I view what this user has access to?
I'm on WSS 3.
Does anyone know of a PowerShell script to perform this method?
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Access Denied on Site Collection after Migrating to Claims
I'm running into an issue with some site collections in a SharePoint 2010 web application. After migrating to claims, there are a couple site collections that give Access Denied, even to users that ...
