Assignment of security to content.
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1answer
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Making Document Libraries visible to some users and not others
I have several document libraries that I would like to list on the front page but make visible to certain users only.
If I set it up this way:
-UserLib1, user1 has read permissions
-UserLib2, user2 ...
9
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4answers
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Cannot upload to a permissions-enabled document library even with RunWithElevatedPrivileges
In our WSS 3.0 application, we have a document library that has an elevated folder called "Approved". It has different permissions from the rest of the Document Library in order to prevent people from ...
8
votes
3answers
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Hiding buttons of the Ribbon Bar
Is it possible to hide specific buttons of the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Bar based on the user's permission on publishing pages? For example, we need to hide the font dropdown and under the Insert tab, ...
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9answers
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Read-only column in a SharePoint list
I want to create a read-only column in my "Request Approval" Nintex workflow task that I sent to the user. I did the following:
Created a column in my list. Field name: “Guideline”
In the default ...
6
votes
5answers
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Can't pass authentication to browse a sharepoint site
I am trying to browse a sharepoint site in IE8 from the server where it is deployed.
When I am promped to enter my credentials i enter them but this doesn't work.
The box keeps appearing and asks me ...
6
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2answers
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How to hide View all site content link to “Visitors” from Sharepoint Designer
I want to hide the "View All Site Content" link in Quick Launch from the "Visitors" who have read permission only. If the owner logs in they should be able to see the "View All Site Content" link.
...
6
votes
7answers
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'Sign in as Different User' Not “Taking”
In some instances of WSS or MOSS when you use the "Sign in as Different User" option, the new login doesn't "take". Is there any known issue here? Usually logging out and then logging back in with ...
6
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3answers
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SharePoint Web service requests take 30-60 secs initially
When trying to access SharePoint WSS 3.0 server using the web services API, the software service we are developing will hang anywhere between 30-60 seconds when making any call (pick anyone of them, ...
6
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1answer
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Inherit permissions on list in a sub-site causes site collection lock-out
Scenario is this - site collection contains a sub-site with unique permissions. In that sub-site, site owner with full control creates link list. That list is not created with the same permissions as ...
5
votes
5answers
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SharePoint List Item Permissions
Does anyone know of a way to implement permissions within a SharePoint list so that items are only visible to the person who created it (or potentially who the list item is "assigned to", as in like a ...
5
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3answers
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Getting All users from a site
Has anybody have the awareness about to getting all the users from all the site and sub sites. I want to create a access report that will describes each users permission in each and every site and sub ...
5
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2answers
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What exactly does the “Browse Directories” permission do?
Ive been having a mysterious access denied error for site owners when they try to edit content query web parts on their sites, but site collection owners have no issues.
I ended up creating a copy of ...
5
votes
1answer
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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 ...
5
votes
2answers
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It's cleanup time but How?
A user has left the company and I been finding her many different places from main portal http://portal.inhouse.ca to all the site collections, sub sites and SP groups..
Is there a powershell way to ...
5
votes
4answers
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Creating a Site collection programmatically throws exception <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr>
I'm migrating a SharePoint customization from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 (Win 2008), which creates the Site Collection programmatically. Problem is I'm unable to create the Site Collection ...
5
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1answer
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Why can I only login if I use “Sign in as a different user”?
Currently, I can only login directly (in any browser) with members of the Sharepoint Farm Administrators group. However, if I login as one of those administrators then login as a regular domain user I ...
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2answers
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Why are user permissions set in AD not updated immediately to SharePoint?
I have a SharePoint 2010 Foundation installation on Windows 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 and using Claims and Windows authentication.
Subsites are visible only to members of a certain group. However, ...
5
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2answers
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I dont have permissions to use SharePoint PowerShell, what to do?
I am a developer and would like to deploy a wsp to a server (win2k8r2) from my customer. I log in with some user created special for me. When I start SharePoint PowerShell I got this error:
The local ...
5
votes
1answer
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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 ...
5
votes
2answers
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Unique Permission Issue
This appears to be by design. I have a user who used unique permissions on a subsite and then used unique permissions on a list in the subsite. They then decided to have the subsite inherit ...
5
votes
1answer
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Why does SPWebCollection[Guid] needs more permissions than SPWebCollection[string]?
I have this code:
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
string dummy = String.Empty;
SPWeb subwebByName = web.Webs["Example"];
dummy = subwebByName.Name;
Guid subwebId = new ...
5
votes
2answers
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Setting “contribute” permissions for blog comment lists
It appears as though Sharepoint 2010 OOB does not give Authenticated Users "contribute" permissions for users' blog comment lists. Authenticated Users only have the permission to read, which is not ...
5
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3answers
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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 ...
4
votes
5answers
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How to check if a user exists in a group
How can i check if a user (not the current user) exists in a group.
The SPGroup object allows to check if the current user is member of the group, but there is no method that checks if a SPUser given ...
4
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5answers
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Users with Full control can't add documents and don't see all menu options
I am currently looking at an interesting issue with a WSS 3 standalone instance. Up until late last week all was working with well. Users are now reporting issues. Users with Full Control access ...
4
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2answers
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Efficiently determine if a List is using item level security
How can you efficiently determine if any of the items in a List don't inherit their security from the List?
You could use SPListItem.HasUniqueRoleAssignments but this would require iterating through ...
4
votes
1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
1answer
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SharePoint permissions reading from AD
I have a SharePoint sub web with unique permissions, within the site I have 3 SharePoint groups (Owner, Contributor and Viewers), in each of these groups I am including an Active Directory group.
...
4
votes
2answers
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How do I showing a user's site memberships in the top navigation bar?
I have a site setup which has a common shared root site. But the subsites (site collections on a managed path) aren't for all users.
I want the main site's top navigation bar to show the main site ...
4
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3answers
3k views
Can I create a hidden page in SharePoint 2010?
Is it possible to 'hide' a page to everyone but a certain user or group of users?
4
votes
3answers
73 views
How to manager large user access to specific folders? (300+ users)
Okay, got a internal sharepoint setup for authenticated users (about 3000 users).
This sharepoint has one group that is specifically in one region and a small group in another region overseas ...
4
votes
5answers
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Permissions for List or Library Columns
Is there any way to give permission to a specific field of a list or library? I want one of my users for example cannot add or edit data in a specific column.
Can I set permissions to the form and its ...
4
votes
2answers
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Make a folder in a document library read only without using security
I have a document library with about 25,000 folders in it, each folder represents a task in our task system and is used as a document repository for those tasks.
Of the 25,000 tasks about 22,000 are ...
4
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2answers
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Contributors can't seem to save personalisable web part properties?
I've using the following code to save the week a user is currently looking at, for next time they view the web part:
private string _week = null;
[WebPartStorage(Storage.Personal)]
public string ...
4
votes
3answers
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SharePoint Admin account permissions failed
Per best practice, I created Windows user and added to the Administrators group (sp_admin) to install SharePoint 2010 and installed the product under that account.
However, after running the ...
4
votes
1answer
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Remove “Add new item” functionality from lists
I have lists where the items are created from nintex workflows. I need to prevent the users from adding list items manually, as the workflows ensure dependencies.
Revoking the add item permission is ...
4
votes
1answer
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Lookup to list with permissions
i'm trying to achieve something that i'm not sure if it's possible or not.
I have a News system that uses multiple lists, permissions etc.
The permissions exist because only 1 person is able ...
4
votes
1answer
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Restrict Visitors from Importing WebParts
We have a MOSS 2007 site where the Visitors are allowed to personalize their home page. They are allowed to add only 2/3 webparts and we did this by managing permissions in the Web Part gallery.
This ...
4
votes
1answer
217 views
Fine grained permission control using Web App Zones?
I am using SharePoint 2010 Server.
I am trying to understand (and test out) all the various options for using different authentication sources for internal and external users on a site that can be ...
4
votes
2answers
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Execution of code as Application Pool account
Here is what I'm currently trying to do -
1.Create a new instance of a timer job from a web part
2.Add a new site collection to the current web application again from a web part
Each time the code ...
4
votes
1answer
633 views
Export list to excel with filters?
I have a list with the setting that a user can only read/edit items they have created themselves which works fine, however, if they click Export to excel (which they should be able to) then all ...
4
votes
3answers
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Login trouble between URL's that point to the same server
We have a strange problem on our intranet. The intranet is accessed through http://intranet and http://intranet.company.com. They both point to http://intranetsrv01.domain.com.
We are experiencing ...
3
votes
4answers
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How to give permissions to around 500 users to a page in SharePoint 2007?
I have created a page in SharePoint and that page should be visible to only few employees (around 500).
What is the best way to achieve this without adding them manually to the permissions list?
3
votes
3answers
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Unable to modify SPWebApplication properties from feature receiver - Access Denied
The scope of the feature is Web.
SPWeb site = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent;
site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
// Set the Web Application's default error page
SPSite siteCollection = new ...
3
votes
2answers
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Should my farm account be in the local admins group?
In my Review problems and solutions reports I have the following Security Warning:
Both of the offending services use my "farm" managed account (I named it SP_Farm on my domain, it's the one you ...
3
votes
1answer
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How to get Column Level permission in SharePoint 2010?
I require column level permissions in SharePoint 2010.
In MOSS 2007 I was using SPListDisplaySetting. However, it does not work for SP2010.
Anybody has an alternative solution?
3
votes
3answers
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Hide “Site Actions” -> “View All Site Content” in a 2010 Publishing Site
This is annoying. I've created a site, enabled the Publishing features, and added a couple people to the "Members" group that has Ready Only access.
When these users log in, they still see the "Site ...
3
votes
6answers
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Unable to edit site in SharePoint Designer 2010
When I am trying to edit a SharePoint 2010 site (clicking ribbon - Site Actions -> Edit Site in SharePoint Designer), it load SharePoint Designer 2010 application and gives me the following error:
...
3
votes
3answers
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Remote Desktop rights - SharePoint 2010 Service Account (is it really required)
I am preparing a SharePoint 2010 (1 WFE/APP + 1 DB) farm. While planning for service account creation , I was wondering do I really need to give Remote Administration Rights to this account.
The ...
