Security is the protection of information and property from theft.
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Securing files in a library by a people column?
SharePoint Online 2013.
Library with a people column added.
For the site owner, they can add files at will, but must select a person for that column for every file.
But for library members, we ...
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Permissions needed by System security officer
In our current setup. I am responsible for Sharepoint in our company. This means that I do everything from deploying to application support to giving users rights to the platform when it is required.
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security concerns on sharepoint deployment
I've inherited our company's SP 2010 deployment. I'm looking for security flaws and other potential issues. Any suggestions as to what to look for?
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I want a literal 'Read/view Only' library - no save, download or print functionality. Is this possible?
I have a number of documents that I want to be literally 'Read Only' in a Library (ideally view in the browser). This means that I want to disable the 'Save As', download and print functionality to ...
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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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NTLM web service call to sharepoint 2013 web application with claim authentication over NTLM users
I have a webservice (no vcf) with Windows authentication(impersonate="true"), that uses the SharePoint 2013 Object Model.
When I call a webservice method that operates on a SharePoint Web Application ...
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IE warning - Microsoft Office Contact Retriever
When I open a SP 2010 page with IE 10 on Windows 8, I get this warning:
Internet Explorer Security
A website wants to open web content using this program on your
computer:
Name: ...
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Need extra layer of authentication on SharePoint list
The following below was requested in an effort to eliminate any security isses. (We are currently using the default NTLM authentication):
-Create a hidden URL extention for admin's only (new site ...
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Service account to access UNC
I'm trying to access the UNC to copy a file from the UNC share to another location. The way it is set up it requires an interactive challenge for credentials, and I was told there is no way to change ...
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Run Sharepoint Query web service with just the username and/or user role known
On my current project we are implementing a WCF layer wrapping Sharepoint web services. Search is a huge thing in our App. So, we are using a QueryService extensively. It works like a charm in its ...
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SecurityException on list GetItems
I'm using custom list event receiver on SharePoint Online to process some field in the item.
In the Event Receiver, I use a query to another list to retrieve value from that list in to current item. ...
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How to exclude users from view access?
We have a SharePoint 2007 site that is viewable by "All Authenticated Users".
As part of company policy, when an employee is terminated or leaves, we modify their active directory account to remain ...
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o365 A2 safe bet for our SharePoint 2013 production farm?
While we build our on-prem SP 2013 we are playing with free o365 A2.
We have about 2TB of production content and about 5000 acitve users, with a potential 20,000 users.
Maybe 500 users using ...
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How to secure SharePoint content
I can navigate to following path and access SharePoint content easily.
\\servername@portno\DavWWWRoot\DocLibraryName
How to prevent others from accessing this path?
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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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SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Move Owner to Group
I am in process of migrating our WSS 3.0 installation to 2013 and I am at the point where I need to break the single site collection down into more manageable sizes and I have a script that ...
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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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Hide Manager Permissions of Parent
In Document library, when clicking on Actions, users have "Manage Permissions of Parent" and "Edit Permissions".
Is there a way to hide the 'Manage Permissions of Parent', as users are accidentally ...
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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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Managing security and privileges for my Wiki library
I am somehow new to SharePoint. I have created a Wiki Library inside my team site, and it seems that it will give me all the features I need Out-Of-Box such as content editing, rich text editing, ...
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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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How to show what level of permission a group or user has to a site?
In SharePoint 2007 when you go to a site and view advanced permissions (Site Actions - Site Settings - Modify All Site Settings - Advanced Permissions) you are presented with a page that has a table ...
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Capture SharePoint role group and group members?
For our audit process I need to regularly capture all of our SharePoint role groups (for our main site collection) and the members in each group. Is there a reliable way to approach this problem?
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Frequently Needed Business Rule About Security that SharePoint Does Not Provide OOTB
Suppose that i have two lists like this
REGION_LIST [ RegionName(text), RegionResponsibles(multi-select peoplepicker) ]
ISSUES_LIST [Some issue related columns, Region(lookup) ]
Main requirement is ...
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Are SharePoint 2007 or 2010 vulnerable to cross-site request forgery out of the box?
An IBM Rational AppScan against a WSS 3.0 installation indicates that it has detected a cross-site request forgery (CSRF/XSRF) vulnerabilities on many pages, for example ...
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Default Security Groups on Site Creation from Web Service
I am creating SharePoint Team Sites using SharePoint Web Services as I cannot use the object model for this solution (I do not have SharePoint installed on the server where the sites are created ...
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2answers
107 views
How to set authentication model to allow cross-domain access?
How do I change the security settings to allow cross-domain on the same web-server?
I have multiple instance or site collections on the same server but want to make sure that web-services to ...
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ValidateFormDigest - when exactly does it need to be called?
Can someone explain to me exactly when and why I need to call SPUtility.ValidateFormDigest?
Contrary to the spec, which says you need to call it before elevating privileges, I've had the following ...
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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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2answers
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Sharepont 2013 - NTLM Logout
Our SharePoint 2013 site will not log users out unless the browser is completely closed. We are using NTLM authentication but the site is hosted, so it is external accessible. We are afraid users ...
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1answer
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How to add security to a page using powershell
I am new to SharePoint and am writing PowerShell scripts to create a number of libraries. Each library will be added as a list webpart on a webpart page for added security. Finally, the page is added ...
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Limiting Report Subscription Options
We are using SharePoint Enterprise 2010 to provide reporting functionality for our sales team, using SSRS RDL files. The report's themselves work just fine, but we are going to train our sales team ...
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giving access to an entire web application
Im trying to elevate someones permissions so that they can edit and add users etc across all site collections in our farm. I added the user into the farm admins group but it doesnt look like their ...
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Use Managed Account in WebService to provision a SiteCollection
A GPO forces us to change all user passwords every 90 days - thats why we are using Managed Accounts with automatic password change in our environment for all services. Because of this we do not know ...
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Best Practices to make my internet facing portal secure
Ok,
so I finished developing my internet site.
It uses a federation provider to authenticate public user.
Now what I'm concern of, is the site security.
I see that any logged in user can see the ...
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In SP 2010 or SP2013 How can I have search results use audience targeting
I have items in my document library that are configuered for audience targeting.
What I would like to do is have the items in my search results page "search results" web part filter the items at an ...
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Is there a way to limit viewing permissions of list items based on a property?
I have a custom list which has a property "Department" which is a multi-select checkbox list. So each item in this list can be one of multiple different Departments. I would like to make these items ...
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Steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt directory iis7
The service.cnf file found in the _vti_pvt directory has the default permission settings which may lead to an unauthorized access to the file
What are the steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt ...
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Conditional SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges
Is there a way to use SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges conditionally.
For example, assume that i have a code block, if some condition is met i want to run this code block in ...
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Opening document from Search results - This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the command it was given
Hi I am trying to open an Office document by clicking on the search results document title, however an error box pops up saying:
This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the ...
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My Site creation failure for user after moving My Sites to dedicated web application
I have created a new web application at port 8080 with the intention of having all personal site creation (i.e. My Sites) stored in a dedicated WSS_Content database (i.e. a best practice ...
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SP2010, are the search index / query component files a risk for highly secure documentation?
Say I have some secure documentation held in SharePoint.
Now say the SQL database/BLOB location is encrypted.
Enterprise Search is used to crawl this content and therefore the content is indexed. Is ...
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Multiple login prompts are driving users nuts
What are the typical causes of multiple login prompts on sharepoint sites?
We have a production site where users who login outside of the domain (from home) are prompted multiple times (3 or so ...
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Is it possible to add a security trim that filters by user groups?
In my left hand side bar I have 3 links to downloads- one for each of three different companies. I need each company to log in and see only the one link to their companies downloads - not all 3 links ...
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Accessing word docs on Sharepoint site. Are files cached locally?
My client wants users to access word and excel docs through the company SharePoint site from remote locations, however he does not want them to have access to the files after they have logged off the ...
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Full Control Permission Problem
I am in a group which has Full Permission (site collection owners).
However i cant add users to groups that i am not a member off.
I thought this would give me full overriding permissions.
Am i ...
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Get Access to List View webpart without having access to list
So I'm developing an event management system at the moment where there are two user groups, "editors" and "attendees". By registering for an event, the SPUser is added to a list "attendeeList" which ...
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I need a Antivirus Scanner for SharePoint 2013
I'm using a Windows 2012 server. With SharePoint server 2013 installed.
When I wanted to install Forefront for SharePoint 2010 I get this error.
No protectable server applications were detected. ...
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Problems installing Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint
I can't istall the virusscanner:
I will get this message
No protectable server applications were detected. Client-only installation is not currently supported.
For examples of server applications ...
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How can I add “All Authenticated users” (FBA) to a SharePoint Group using Powershell?
I have an FBA site and I need to add "all authenticated users" to a group using PowerShell.
How can I do that?
